Don’t like watches that are shiny or plastic? Try wood. WeWOOD Wooden Wrist Watches have a natural look and are also environmentally friendly. Not only are these watches most made from renewable material but for every one sold WeWOOD will plant a tree.
With upcycled products sometimes there’s a fine line between what looks artistic and what looks like something people would make of trash in some post-appocolypic world. And so it is with the Rag Chair by Dutch artist Tejo Remy.
It’s like getting a stocking full of gifts. Except the gifts are vegetables. And the stocking is an Orka Vegetables Keep Sack.
The Naked Binder: It isn’t as X-rated as it sounds. In fact, the opposite of that. These basic binders are smartly hinged and 100% recycled but other than that they are bare. Choose from a brightly colored Project Binder or create your own look.
Is it the start of an automotive revolution? The Nissan Leaf, slated to be the world’s first affordable, five-seat electric vehicle for the everyman† is coming to showrooms starting in late 2010. In the United States you can sign up to lease one for a fully refundable $99 deposit. But would you want to?
Here’s why you might:
The Leaf is a spacious, fun-to-drive vehicle. With maximum torque available at all speeds, the Leaf zips off the line and will send you from 0 to 60 mph in a more-than-respectable 6 seconds. The car has lots of vondrous, high tech features such as remote cell phone controls—on a hot day you can call your Leaf and ask it to pre-cool the car to a particular temperature; the Leaf will send you a text message when it is finished. The economics of Leaf ownership is appealing too. Powering a car through electricity costs a fraction of gasoline. And, of course, the Nissan Leaf is more environmentally-friendly than internal-combustion cars
Here’s why you might want to hold off on your Leaf purchase:
Panda Bicycles can not be ridden by a cute black-and-white spotted bear. But they could be eaten by one. Panda Bicycles, manufactured by a Colorado company of the same name, are the world’s only that are made from steel lugged bamboo. Bamboo being an environmentally-friendly material that’s also strong, shock-absorbing and cool-looking.
The price for these bikes? That isn’t so cool. The one-geared “The One” model lists for US$2,100. “The Legacy” touring bike will set you back even more green, $3,250, or more than it would cost you to fly to China and see a real panda.
