The off-beat design team of Jinsop Lee, Justin Kim and their Uncle Oswald is My Hero design company have created their “Dreyfuss Special” line of MP3 speaker systems from the remains of defunct Bakelite phones.

The ubiquitous old phones were originally designed by Henry Dreyfuss whose phones were used the world over for 50 years.  Unfortunately, the Dreyfuss phones were made of non-biodegradable Bakelite, a material so strong it will remain intact in landfills in perpetuity.  The Dreyfuss phone’s rebirth as a new product is a nice eco-friendly touch.

The “Dreyfuss Special” recently received the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2010 (honourable mention).   Lee and Kim are now in search of additional funding for retail production of the “Special,” which in addition to being a great looking recycled gadget, is purported to produce some nice sound.

via: recyclart

Here are some tips on how to support the Tea Party’s green platform…we jest, of course:)

• Global Warming – First disregard all scientific evidence.  Consult meteorological experts like Glenn Beck (he does use a blackboard), and Sarah Palin.  They have a firm grasp on middle America’s political temperature.  Any day that falls below the daily average temperature is a strike against man-made climate change – any day with above average temps is just a good old heatwave.
• Emulate Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell by avoiding masturbation and abstaining from pre-marital sex – 2 potentially dangerous man-made sources of global warming.
• Follow Republican Congressional leader John Boehner’s lead and slather on the self-tanner.  Our thinning atmosphere can cause harmful skin cancers (John McCain) an affliction that can undermine the Party of No’s position on climate change.  Besides, becoming your own bizarrely orange version of the sun can only help draw attention away from any real issues…like that meticulously manicured hair.
• Lowering our deficit is Job One.  Cut funding and grants to special interest groups – specifically, American-based alternative energy companies.  We all know that Al Gore’s investment in wind and solar energy is just a scam to fill his wallet with more cash to finance his those “therapeutic” massages and happy endings.
• Concentrate on the key issues facing America.  Sure it will kill a few million trees, but we must demand a hard copy of every non-white American’s birth certificate for public examination.
• Illegal immigration must be stopped.  Physically closing our borders may prevent some incidental animal migrations and isolate a few barn owl populations, but this needs to get done.  We’ve made a good start by fencing off some of our border with Mexico – now let’s get down to the serious business of closing our border with Canada to wayward Canadian comedians, Canadian geese and any stray bull moose looking to steal American jobs.
• Drill baby drill!  Nothing kicks our economy into high gear like giving piles of cash to multinational oil companies.  As BP’s Gulf oil spill showed us – the oil clean-up biz has tremendous growth potential.