Actually, wouldn't panda pelts [from a sustainable infestation of the cute little beasties] be considered to be "green" [I admit to being color blind in that part of the spectrum.]

BTW, I picked up your comment on screen names the other day ... and yours is a lot more obscure to me than mine is to you. :-) !!!

Oh, yeah, I was into pocket knives as a kid, what kid wasn't, and I remember looking at one of those knife collector books on them, and seeing this strange blade called a "fleam". It's found on old-old pocket knives, for letting blood. Somehow that gave me an impression that's never left me, that the past, even a mere 100 years ago, compared to our modern, plastic, antiseptic life, was weird.