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You've heard of green cars, green tourism and green weddings. Now Canadians should ready themselves for green sex.  
Green peace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet." Tree Hugger, an online magazine edited by Ontario's Michael Graham Richard, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The famed adult store Good Vibrations announced last week they would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.  
Throughout Canada and the U.S., people who want to pleasure the planet can now buy everything from bamboo bed sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."  
Most environmentalists will agree the mainstream success of the Al Gore vehicle “An Inconvenient Truth” has helped give climate change the pop-culture sheen it's currently enjoying. Indeed, global warming is a cause to which everyone from Diesel apparel to Vanity Fair magazine and Starbucks are pinning their marketing efforts.  
If shopping to save the planet is trendy, having sex to clear your conscience is at the cutting edge.  
Some ways of "green washing" the bedroom, as outlined by Tree Hugger and Green peace, include turning out the lights, not buying PVC or vinyl accoutrements, using organic massage oils, showering together, using bamboo bed sheets (they come from a rapidly renewable resource and are said to be "super sexy"), and wearing lingerie made with renewable fibres such as hemp (Enamour), bamboo (Butta) and other organic goodness (Green Knickers, Buenostyle, Peau Ethique).  
 
Camille Labchuk, speaking on behalf of the Green Party of Canada, gives the movement two green thumbs-up.  
"The general concern for trying to live lightly on our planet has transferred into all areas of people's lives," says Labchuk, the Green party's press secretary. "So, even though what goes on in our bedrooms as a nation is somewhat hidden, we know that's somewhere people want to green-up."  
As is usual with ideas promoted by green Peace I can find many flaws in their philosophy, like, what is wrong with cotton sheets? Most showers are not made big enough for two to shower, we always turn the lights out, so we must be ahead of our time. Source: Canada.Com