Welcome to the 155th edition of the weekly Carnival of the Green, a collection of environmentally-focused blog posts which moves from one blog to the next each Monday and is managed by TreeHugger.

Last week's Carnival of the Green was hosted by Fake Plastic Fish. Next week's will be hosted by the blog at Healthy Child, Healthy World.

Take a peek at the broad range of environmental topics covered by this week's submissions.

Economics and Investing

Kristjan presents Obama's Energy Plan - Stocks You Should Own posted at The Green Investing Blog.

Ben Connor Barrie writes on Building a Sustainable Economy at Sustainable Design Update.

Green Law and Culture

Christopher Gavigan at Healthy Child Healthy World writes about the sorry state of chemical regulations in consumer products in the U.S., the need for change, and two reasons for its inevitability.

Jennifer Lance at Green Family Values tells us about a Baby Wearing Motrin ad which angered parent groups with an allegedly insensitive commercial about baby wearing, and argues that the controversy won’t slow the revival of this ancient practice.

Reuse and Recycling

Learn how to turn rice bags into shopping tote bags at Condo Blues, and Mama Bear deflates an argument against using reusable shopping bags on I've Got a Little Space to Fill.

Joe reports on a shoe recycling program that has recycled more than 21 million pairs of shoes since 1990.

After months of campaigning to urge Brita to take back and recycle used Brita filters, the Take Back The Filter group is thrilled to announce the details of Brita's new take-back recycling program which begins in January. Start saving your filters!

Heather Levin presents How To Recycle Gray Water over at The Greenest Dollar.

Sally Kneidel at Veggie Revolution was intrigued to learn about the sex lives of turkeys on corporate poultry farms. Get the inside scoop from author and "turkey inseminator" Jim Mason. It's not quite a natural act.

Green Frugality

Jeremy Zongker presents 76 Ways to Save Money While Saving the Environment posted at Destroy Debt.

David G. Mitchell writes about a former neighbor who took her love of frugality all the way to her nieghbors' trash cans in Martha’s in the Trash Again at the Saving Advice blog.

Green (And Not So Green) Products

Chris Baskind takes a close look at the GreenWashBall, which claims it can eliminate laundry detergentand save consumers money. Is it an eco-revolution - or another case of greenwashing?

We (the same folks behind The Tranquil Parent) report on some surprising sources of the estrogen-disrupting chemical Bisphenol-A over on TTP's sister site, Z Recommends.

Sebastian reports on Miles Automotive's new XS500 Electric Sedan on Zoomi Life. "Want a normal-looking car that’s all-electric and can actually do highway speeds and longer ranges?" he writes. "Maybe you also want it to cost less than $35,000 and seat five? Then keep an eye on Miles Automotive's newly announced XS500 electric sedan, due out sometime in 2009."

Gardenaut published its holiday gift guide, a selection of recommended gardening aids as well as sustainable toys for future gardeners.