Cool looking belts made from recycled bike inner tubes. Very cool for all you bikers to display your eco friendliness.

The entrepreneur from Australia wanted a way to put all those discarded inner tubes to good use and did he find a way! Each belt is unique as they come from different inner tube manufacturers. They are hand crafted too. The only problem I see is that they are $45!

Via Inhabitat.

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Sexy pump heel by Terra Plana is made from recycled quilts from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Each pair features unique patterns though. At least nobody will be able to copy you!

You can also go for the all leather look pictured below.The leather is vegetable tanned opposed to chrome tanning which is more pollutant. Vegetable extracts create deep color in the leather.

See more eco friendly shoes at Terra Plana. The company believes in sustainable practices and materials suth as chrome free leathers, vegetable tanned leathers, recycled materials, and recycled foam beds. The even invented something called E-leather which is a blend of leather and textile fibers ‘re-woven’ to make it indistinguishable from real leather. Its produces with less water and pollutants as real leather.

Via Sexy Fashion.

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The only problem for most of us is that its $2700. Not exactly budget friendly in these times, but its the future now. The company, Calfee Design, is working to improve their production process. For instance, it wants to grow the bamboo stalks in the right size for the bike frame components. That way they can go directly assembled into the bike. It would be like having “a factory in the field.”

Bamboo is underrated and none as a “poor man’s timber”. But in actuality it has a greater tensile strength (resistance to being pulled apart) than steel. It can withstand compression better than concrete too. Bamboo grows up to 60 feet tall and it has the same width from bottom to top. As a result all the compression strength is needed to hold its own weight and tensile strength to bend in the wind without breaking.

Calfee Design who started making bikes with carbon fiber is gambling bamboo will be the next hot bike material. Its eco friendly as bamboo grows fast like a weed and can easily be sustainably harvested.

Calfee Design is also working with the people of Ghana to help them grow their own bamboo bikes! Perhaps if we give them the knowledge then they can mass produce them for the masses and make them affordable for everyone! The project is called the Village Bicycle Project (VBP). Training on construction, repair, and maintenance is given to Ghanans. The metal components are derived from used bike parts in Ghana.

See Calfee Design

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BMW is finally making progress on a hybrid sedan. Its still in concept though so you will have to wait another 2 years? We need more hybrid selections for the masses with only the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, and Ford Escape being about the only options out there.

This BMW sedan has an electric motor system that helps add to the thrust and the engine stops completely when the the car is stopped, adding 15% to fuel economy. The battery back also gets charged through the breaking system, and also powers the car’s on board electronics. Every little innovation helps!

This hybrid will feature ample power with a 4.4 liter V8 when running on gas, but the final result will still be MPG in the low 20’s! Do we really need that much power! I guess its only about 5 mpg better than a regular 7 series. It will sell because someone who can already afford this vehicle surely has more to afford the hybrid.

The Toyota Prius would deliver 40 mpg if it were not a hybrid because of its aerodynamic design and small motor. So at 50 mpg its not a vast improvement, but its very significant.

Via Autoblog.com

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Made from sustainable hardwood and very classy looking as well. Should fit in your stylish bedroom or living room. It fills a small space, but delivers big sound with 15 watt speakers. It comes with 8 iPod adapters and you can hook up with mp3 players too.

Find it at Vivavi.com
Via Furniture Home Design.com

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A USB memory stick made of recycled newspaper. Very simple and compact. It will hold for 512 MB to 16 GB.

Via Ecofriend.com

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The Eco Media Player Revolution gives you 45 minutes of music with a wind of 5 minutes. That’s 9 minutes for a 1 minute wind! You can even use it to charge up your cell phone with an adapter. Good for emergencies when you forget to charge your cell phone and the battery runs out. A single minute of winding will give you 3 minutes of talk time.

It will store up to 4GM of mp3 files. With the rechargeable batteries that you can recharge with a USB cable to your pc you get music playing for up to a whopping 48 hours! Even includes an FM radio player.

Via Smartplanet.com

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Wine rack and coffee table in one! The wood is sustainably harvested as well. It will hold up to 38 bottles. You will easily be able to talk up your wine selection while entertaining guests.

Via Furniture Home Design.com - A great website on eco friendly furniture and decor.

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Wow, what a neat looking invention. Will make an nice adornment in your work or home office to charge up all those gadgets that you have.

This is a concept. Too bad it will not be out for this Christmas! Designed by Vivien Muller, it includes 54 mini photovoltaic panels that act as leaves to suck solar energy just like plants do!

You can even rearrange the leaves and branches, similar to the real bonsai tree!

Via EcoFriend.org

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Lowpro has a variety of camera bags made from 95% recycled material. The material is called Cyclepet which is a 100% post-consumer fabric made from 16 oz PET bottles. Even the hardware is made from reground plastic which is recycled from industrial trimmings salvaged from factory floors.

These cute stylish backs can fit more that just cameras. They don’t even look like camera bags. You can pack your cell phones, pda’s, iphones and ipods… You can choose colors to match your personality form black, plum to grass.

Last but not least, a portion of the proceeds from each bag goes to Polar Bear International (PBI) to help protect polar bear habitats from the results of climate change.

Find them at Amazon.com. Priced from @20-$65.

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