How eco-friendly are you?

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Going green is a smart move but it doesn't guarantee that all our moves will be smart. It's one thing to invent nuclear weapons or factory farming or the internal combustion engine. That's what the un-green crowd has always done best. But sincere inventors with their hearts in the right place can still conjure up mistakes like "Leaf Chaps." The good news is that for every well-intentioned but ultimately illogical green idea, there are dozens of good ones just waiting for you to get busy.

So, with some help from the Patently Absurd Inventions Archive, brace yourselves for...

7 Green Ideas That Suck, 7 Green Ideas That Rock