Floating Island Boats – Wally and Hermes Yacht WHY 58×38 is More Island Than Yacht (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You’d think the best yacht on the market would look like a boat, right? Wrong! Introducing the latest in must have yachts, the Wally and Hermes Yacht WHY 58×38 (on account of its length and breadth).

This…

Garbage Necklaces – Recycled Jewelry by Indregru Converts Trash to Treasures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Waste not, want not! This age-old adage has never been more appropriate than in our current eco-conscious society. So it’s really neat that the jewelry by Indregru is wearable art made out of waste. Basically,…

Mollusk-Shaped Bikes – Hideki Kawata Creates Sea Snail-Inspired Folding Bike (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A folding bike is not necessarily a groundbreaking concept, but this take on the collapsible bicycle stands out not only because of its futuristic design, but because of the mollusk-like shape the bike…

Skimpy Eco-Couture – Richie Rich and Pamela Anderson’s Animal-Friendly Line (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) One half of the fabulous and envelope pushing design duo that makes up Heatherette, Richie Rich is starting a new venture; namely, his own label.

A*Muse is a collaboration between muse Pamela Anderson,…

Remixing Nature – Bobby Neel Adams Uses Photoshop to Turn Trees Into Transformers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bobby Neel Adams’ ‘Re-Skinning Nature’ project effectively remixes Mother Nature’s creations by turning tree trunks into Transformer-like structures that have corrugated tin, copper and laminated centers.…

Water Bottle Gardens – Seeds in the Bottle Turns a Beverage Into a Mini Herb Garden (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seeds in the Bottle creator Yun Hwan Sung has a beautiful dream for this polluted world or ours. Have you ever heard that “every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings”? Sung believes that each time…

Space-Age Bicycles – Nenad Kostadinov’s Furious Bike is Out of This World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Get ready to be dazzled by this space age-looking bike. Designer Nenad Kostadinov just added the Furious concept to the list of must-have bikes.

This sleek design, with its futuristic and aerodynamic…

Designer Prefab Homes – Colorful PLACE Houses Are Ready-to-Wear in Seattle (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seattle-based Place Architects are now offering houses “ready-to-wear.” While many pre-made homes are targeting the vacation home set, this sleek and modern pre-fabricated house is intended for everyone.…

Boxed Bikes – Victor Aleman’s Bicycle Folds Up for Small Space Accommodation (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I know what you are thinking: ‘Not another bike concept,’ but hear me out.

Apart from the cool design, Victor Aleman’s bike is just to ingenious no to appreciate. It is consists of two systems: the ‘wheel…

Aggressive Eco Automobiles – BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Frankfurt Preview is Badass (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This Frankfurt preview of the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept gives me hope that the era of the badass, mean sportscar hasn’t completely given way to the smiley lines of today’s cutesy eco cars. The…

Hotels on Stilts – Angsana’s InOcean Villas are Island-Free Vacations in the Maldives (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Maldives’ newly-opened Angsana Velavaru InOcean Villas are swanky hotel rooms on stilts. The luxurious collection of 33 two-story vacation homes are joined by a boardwalk but are completely isolated…

Triangular Jungle Shelters – V-Houses by Heinz Legler Offer Stunning Views Without Damaging the Land (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Eco-adventurers visiting the jungles for Yelapa, Mexico will soon be able to find refuge in these precarious looking V-Houses designed by Heinz Legler.  Securely planted in the ground, the inverted metal…

Eco-Bike Abodes – Sustainable Bicycle-Towed Home for ‘Burning Man’ Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A man named Paul has created a sustainable bicycle-towed home in order to test his ability to create such a place in case of a swine flu apocalypse. The bicycle-towed home weighs about 100 pounds but is…

Surfer Beach Bicycles – The Wave Bike Concept Holds Your Surfboard so you Don’t Have to (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Wave bike concept is perfect for weekend surfers. The bicycle has a little console that actually carries a full-sized surf board so the user can continue to steer with two hands.

While most surfers…

Greenhouse Homes – Hiroshi Iguchi’s ‘Camouflage House’ is in Sync With Nature (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Architects are beginning to echo consumer desires to be attuned with nature, and Hiroshi Iguchi’s ‘Camouflage House’ is the latest example of this harmony.

With its slanted glass roof, Hiroshi Iguchi’s…

Trashy Pin-Up Art – Lorenzo Masnah Makes Pop Culture Garbage Into an Art Form (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Lorenzo Masnah’s collection entitled “Bonita” is anything but trashy – even though it is technically made from trash. The Mexico-born, New York-based artist finds old 60’s magazine pin-ups and jazzes them…

Ecosystem Showers – Jun Yasumoto’s Phyto-Purification Bathroom Filters Recycles Water (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Jun Yasumoto’s Phyto-Purification Bathroom is a conceptual system that turns your shower into a mini-ecosystem. The design is a clever take on the water-saving conundrum that relies on plants to do its…

Paper Wedding Dresses – Ann Kagawa Lee Wins Contest With Fashion Forward Toiletries (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ann Kagawa Lee is certainly patient. She created a dress entirely out of toilet paper for Cheap Chic Wedding’s toilet-paper wedding dress contest. As if that’s not impressive enough, the dress is actually…

Bisected Motorbikes – Eco-Friendly Halbo is Half the Size Twice the Excitement (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As gas digits become smaller, apparently so too do the size of the vehicles. The Halbo motorcycle concept designed by Pierre Yohanes Lubis for BMW is actually the size of half of a real motorcycle.

The…

Top 50 Eco Trends in H1 2009

(TrendHunter.com) This countdown features the latest eco trends, which include everything from the latest recycled garbage as art to photosets that celebrate nature in a modern way.

This ranking is a crowd-filtered based…