Archive for 'Design'

ZENN Zero Emissions No Noise -  great name for an electric car — and it hails from Toronto, Canada.

With 250 of these babies on the road since its debut in 2006, ZENN’s top speed is 25 mph - great for driver ed classes, campus cruising, geezers or making the neighborhood rounds. With an electric re-charge [...]

Make your move to eco chic reusable bags, or give them as wonderful holiday gifts. Compliments of Blue Avocado, two lucky readers will each receive a unique and innovative shopping bag kit, made from beautiful recycled materials. Available in three stylish colors; winners get to pick their favorite shade.

First Prize:  the Cool Kit replaces 13 [...]

The ubiquitous cordless phone just got a teensy-bit greener. 

Motorola just announced the introduction of its new D10 and D11 cordless phones.  The eco-friendly handsets are designed to look great and consume less energy.  The phones’ ‘eco-mode’ (the variations of features with ‘eco’ in the name is getting ridiculous) reduces energy consumption while increasing talk [...]

We’ve run our New York City tap water through this filter and darned if it doesn’t work! The Z-Pitcher has a filter on top that that you pour your tap water through to clean it up.  The filter features five different filtration stages to eliminate organic, inorganic and radiological contaminants–lead, chromium, mercury, hydrogen sulfide and [...]

Pull the pin on this cool looking reusable shopping bag and you’ll quickly become the talk of your grocery store’s checkout line.  Created by designers lovegrove & repucci, this roomy polyester bag is handily stored in a durable, neoprene outer shell.  The eye-catching slogan on the bag will make your efforts to cut down plastic [...]

London-based Karbon Kintetics is field testing a cool looking and innovative electric bike for urban commuters, the Gocycle.

The bike has a lot of great features: it’s lightweight (injection molded magnesium), the seat and handlebars adjust without tools for each rider, it has a range of 6 to 20 miles (with pedal input), 3.5 hours of [...]

Sexy eco-furniture designer, PIE studio’s, “END OF YEAR SALE SALE SALE” is a limited offer with a limited amount of items and for a limited time only.  The ‘once a year sale’ features select items reduced 25%-45% off retail value.

PIE’s eco-friendly furniture is composed of water hyacinth, liana, bamboo and rattan.  The sale runs through [...]

Finland’s Windside Wind Turbines cut its teeth designing wind turbines for remote weather stations and installations located in the harshest and most extreme environments, from the frigid Antarctic to the sizzling Sahara desert.  Though they specialize in professional installations, the company does offer an interesting consumer small wind turbine for sale in Europe and Canada.

The [...]

We’ve posted about Brooklyn based sustainable furniture maker, Uhuru, in the past and thought we’d revisit their site where we discovered the Irish Coffee Table made of upcycled bourbon barrel staves.

Uhuru specializes in designing and handcrafting stylishly utilitarian furniture from reclaimed, recycled and repurposed materials.
The barrel staves that make up this piece are straight out [...]

Want to take a really big step toward being a more evolved ‘green’ person?  Start by installing a water filtration system on your kitchen tap and then pour that newly cleansed agua into a reusable, BPA-free, water bottle like this 24 oz. model from Aladdin.
If you don’t have the cash for the filtration device you [...]

We have to admit, we love Kuyichi’s organic cotton jeans and t’s.  Pure denim from certified organic cotton grown and harvested under heavily monitored fair trade conditions in Peru and manufactured with care, environmental responsibility and, above all, style.

see more of their 2008 collection @ kuyichi.com

As you hustle from computer to computer grasping at the fleeting details of your angst filled existence, hopelessly slipping into the abyss…oh crap, that’s me…

Let this geometrically shaped little piece of technology stylishly keep you from losing it all.  The lanyard design and loop shape make this a great utilitarian fashion accessory.  Plugs into that [...]