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Jen Boulden and Heather Stephenson have a message this holiday season: turn off your Christmas lights when you're not using them! Otherwise you'll directly lead to an apocalyptic future for our children's children's children. That would earn us one mean hunk of (non-singing) coal.

The two pretty forces of nature behind the hit green website Ideal Bite (recently bought by Disney!) impart this festive message in a cute web video (below). The production values are high yet campy (again, Disney), and it's an entertaining watch. I love the Dargeresque depictions of our bleak dystopian future.

So turn off unneeded lights so we can have a Greenopian future instead, thank you very much. And listen to Jen and Heather rock out, Guitar Hero/Rock Band style. The song is quite catchy. (I think someone saw Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure recently too. RIP George Carlin.).

So Jen, you like younger men? O RLY. Next time you're in New York, call me. I don't have any holiday lights on.

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See Diana Kaye leading her Terressentials team in the fun, informative advocacy video/commercial below. (See lyrics here.) It reminds us of Smirnoff's Tea Partay crossed with Vermont's CO2 rappers.

Diana Kaye founded the Maryland-based natural body care products company Terressentials after she had been unsatisfied with the other offerings on the market. Kaye had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the young age of 29. Although she recovered after a long struggle that included a switch to organic food and natural products, as well as experimental chemotherapy, she was left highly sensitive to a wide range of chemicals.

When I did a story on her for E Magazine, Kaye told me, “As I began to research personal-care products, I realized that there were very few items I could safely use because of their synthetic ingredients, including those found in natural health stores. So I formed my own company with the goal of offering 100 percent natural body-care products that are as close to all-organic as possible.”

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Worried about further damage to America's fragile fossil fuel infrastructure from the rest of the hurricane season? Visions of oil-soaked ducks and homeless polar bears keeping you up at night while Sarah Palin drills her rhetoric into the public?

Take heart! Politicians are working overtime to make sure no more oil tankers will be hastily joined together with cardboard, or staffed by a minimum of one crew member. Way back in the early 1990s, Aussie duo John Clarke and Brian Dawe let us know that everything is copasetic on the high seas.

While the biting satire specifically referred to an unfortunate incident off Western Australia in 1991, the sad truth is that many disastrous oil spills have happened since the infamous Exxon Valdez of 1989. If we increase our drilling and shipping of oil, we've got even more chances for accidents in the future.

Thanks for the link dad!

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As this oh-so-useful timeline of Internet memes shows, viral videos have long kept cubicle warriors smiling through their TPS reports and teenagers laughing all the way to MySpace. It's not all fun and games though: from Obama Girl to Tea Partay to OK Go, effective viral videos can shape elections, push millions of products and establish artists.

Short, catchy videos can also draw attention to causes and motivate people to action. Just ask The Nature Conservancy, or even TDG's own Glen, The Global Warming Groundhog.

While it can be debatable whether serious "mission" movies like Blood Diamond or thrillerized fare like The Day After Tomorrow really make an impact with viewers, history shows that humor — done well — can be a powerful force for social change. Think Jonathan Swift, Lenny Bruce and Shakespeare. Or arguably the good folk of JibJab.

You also might want to check out the new site Go Green Tube, which offsets a pound of carbon for each video viewed.

So here are the picks for the most viral green videos. Add yours in the comments, and tell us what you think of these selections!

Note: Several of these videos include strong language and adult themes, and are not suitable for children. Also note: the videos get funnier as you go down the list. So let the countdown begin...

10. Best Student Film – Save the Animal Crackers!

This video has great production values, and executes a smart, amusing concept really well. We didn't find it sidesplittingly hilarious, but it definitely makes an impact. Plus, we like the fact that it was made by college students.

The National Geographic Channel had asked college kids to create something for their Annual Preserve Our Planet Film + PSA Contest, with the theme “what you do counts.” This finalist is by Genna Duberstein of American University.

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