It's called "Swishing parties," where fashion diva's get together (Sex in the City style), eat snacks, enjoy a glass of wine...'and swap their clothes, says a BBC report.

Like a secret santa but a touch more ghetto...

these parties are being called 'eco-fabulous' recycling...and everyone leaves happy, assuming that is, another women there wears the same size.

"Each woman has to bring at least one clean, good-quality but unwanted garment or accessory that she's proud to hand on. All the garments, belts, bags, hats and other accessories are laid out or hung up on anything that's to hand — ladders, chairs, drying racks — and then, after everyone's arrived and has had a glass of wine or a cocktail, the party formally begins."

In New York, similar swapping parties are starting up in bars and clubs, as well as privately in people's homes. In these cash strapped times you might just wanna swap clothes -- (and at least you'll end up with a new top).

A new breakthrough -- (led by Monash University) -- could amp up the production of "hydrogen," says Science Daily.

Basically they were able to -- "replicate a key process in photosynthesis," which would lead to being able to use sunlight to split water back into hydrogen and oxygen in a cheap way.

Eventually, this could revolutionize the renewable energy industry by making effecient hydrogen, which has been -- "touted as the clean, green fuel of the future ."

"We have copied nature, taking the elements and mechanisms found in plant life that have evolved over 3 billion years and recreated one of those processes in the laboratory," Professor Spiccia said.

College students ain't interested in just "Working for the man" -- unless they get a touch of green -- and by green, I don't mean just cash:

"Young people are thumbing their noses at companies that don't offer green-collar jobs," This according to a survey by the career network Experience.

'Sorta become the "in" thing for Students -- (and recent grads) -- to make more environmentally-conscious decisions when it comes to their career choices:

In that nationwide poll: "Four in five (81%) said it is important to work for a green company and nearly as many (79%) said they would be more likely to accept a job offer at an eco-conscious company over a company that wasn't, when evaluating two similar offers."

Since not everybody can wake-up an all-out expert on topics like sustainable technologies...

'Schools are adapting this eco-trend and offering a crop of courses -- "that help you safeguard the planet while boosting your skills."

Source: Henry Cruz.com

This sounds like a really stupid idea at first, but take your time -- (mull it over over a tall Iced latte before deciding how stupid);

So, since -- "Clubs use 150 times the power of normal households" -- which normally would be just fine -- because we all know most clubs charge an entry fee for the right to go inside and pay again for over priced drinks...just fine.

'unless you're into saving the planet.

Welcome -- "eco-clubs" -- a bunch of New nightclubs in Rotterdam and London...harnessing human power to help light the clubs.

"When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground," Stef van Dongen, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy."

They say their clubs will "be among the first in the world to give back some of what dancers leave on the floor -- and it is part of a larger effort by Enviu subsidiary Sustainable Dance Club (SDC) to introduce environmental technology to an industry that has traditionally been a voracious consumer of electricity."

I would like this idea even more if they also donated a portion the doors proceeds towards saving the planet.

Stepping up to the plate -- "Millionaires are purchasing entire ecosystems around the world and turning them into conservation areas," says the Telegraph (U.K.).

With the true goal they say of saving the planet and to - "stop environmental catastrophe." This rich mans game is all going down in places like Brazil, Chile and Argentina...

The tone of the article does makes it sound more like bragging rites of the rich -- folks with money using a cause as a way to throw their name on a "private ecosystem."

Adding it's "what every chic millionaire needs - his own private ecosystem."

One eco-stud put it this way: "we know what to do with shopping malls and apartment complexes. But an ecosystem in Tierra del Fuego? So we called in The Nature Conservancy to study the land and they came back with the conclusion that it was actually a very valuable piece of land from an environmental point of view." -- I guess, once you look pass the keeping-up-with-the-Jones (bragging rites of passage)...it sounds like a great way of putting your money where your mouth is.