Eco-Friendly Olympic Fashion – Canadian Teams Go Green (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) True to the country’s green nature, Canada’s official Olympic 2008 clothing line will be an environmentally-friendly one. In addition to having Canada’s patriotic red and white colours, the fashion line is laced with hints of forest green.

The fashion line, which was unveiled at a Toronto fashion …

Edible Runways – Etro’s Farm Fresh Fashion (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve featured green walls, inside and out, even green roofs, green dog houses and living interior designs. Etro, always on the cutting edge of style, realized the popularity of covering surfaces in live vegetation and produced an edible runway at the Fall 2008 men’s show.

The catwalk was decorate…

Water Conservation Gadgets – Aperture Shower Head

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re the type of person that likes to spend ages in the shower, you definitely need this device to keep your water consumption in check.

The Aperture shower head keeps track of the volume of water you use while showering. The designers hope users will take note of the huge amounts of water th…

Giant Eco-Friendly LED Displays – Beijing Greenpix Zero Energy Wall (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Greenpix Zero Energy Media LED Wall in Beijing was created by Simone Giostra & Partners and Arup and can be seen in the gallery. The gigantic LED wall, which is near the site of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and which is set to go live sometime this month, will display videos of art-related ev…

Garbage Seafood II – Guerrilla Campaign Packages Garbage as Seafood (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine going to the seafood section of your grocery store to pick up shrimp or squid only to be faced with a package that looks like seafood but is actually purely garbage.

This is exactly what this brilliant Surfrider guerrilla campaign did to raise awareness for the need to keep our oceans clean…

Green Fashion Shows – Project Earth Day Green Runway (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who says environmentally responsible fashion cannot be hip, daring, and ultra sexy?

The recent annual Project Earth Day runway show and fashion design competition proved you can be green while looking extra hot.

The gallery shows a sample of the sustainable style paraded down the eco-friendly ru…

Environmentally Endangered Tourism – Places to Visit While You Can (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Concierge magazine released a list of the 10 most environmentally endangered locations to visit.

“Isn’t it ironic that as it gets easier to travel around the world, there are fewer amazing things to see?” the magazine asks.

The Taj Mahal’s beautiful exterior is suffering possibly irreparable …

Four Legged Eco Teachers – Animals Planet Green Lessons (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Animal Planet has released an awareness campaign in which cartoon animals offer viewers lessons on how to save the planet. There are six hilarious, short clips on their website, teaching things like how eating a healthy diet actually reduces green house gases as well as a range of other ways to help…

Round-the-World Green Flights – Solar-Cell Hy-Bird (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Hy-Bird, a hydrogen-powered electric airplane that gets 10% of its power through solar-cells, is made of super-lightweight (and expensive) carbon fibre. The French company behind it, Lisa Airplanes, states that the power system will allow the plane to circumnavigate the globe in 3,000 km stages.…

Green Tea Mattresses – Keetsa

(TrendHunter.com) Eco-bedding company, Keetsa, scores each one of their products with a Keetsa Quotient, or a score of how environmentally-friendly they are. Take their Tea Leaf Classic mattress for instance. It scores a 67.08 out of 100 — compare that to their Tea Leaf Supreme that has a 90.38! It seems that there …

ReCycled Bike Chairs – Tour de France Lounger

(TrendHunter.com) The Tour de France lounge chair, complete with flaming tires, horn and a handlebar base is any cyclist’s dream. It actually looks comfortable with black padded seat and back on spoked rims. This cool chair, made from recycled and new bike parts, would look fantastic in a sports-themed bar. Can’…

Water-Waste Awareness Baths – Transparent Tub Has Measurements (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While it’s nice to treat yourself to a luxurious soak in the tub after a long and stressful day, you have to remember that millions of people around the world struggle to find drinking water to survive. Lest you forget, Flore de Crombrugghe has come up with a brilliant transparent bathtub design tha…

Eco-Luxury Architecture – $15 Million Orchid House (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is the design of a sustainable, eco-friendly house shaped in the form of a bee orchid. The house, which is called The Orchid and is located in the UK, uses geothermal heating and an underground pump to create its own energy. So far so good.

The Orchid, designed by Sarah Featherstone, sits on 5…

Eco-Naughty Lingerie – Enamore (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Enamore creates fashion pieces for under and over, above and underneath, for top and for bottom. Enamore is absolutely nothing for the faint-hearted but definitely something to tantalize the fertile dude’s imagination.

Aesthetically, it’s pleasurable, but better yet, it’s environmentally beneficia…

Green Inside and Out Lights – Grass-on Lamp (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Grass-on lamp is green both outside and inside. The unique light brings the outdoors inside your home with its synthetic grass look. And to go along with the green theme, the whole lamp is made from recycled materials and is completely recyclable.

Grass-on was designed by three Venetian archite…

Solar Panel Handbags – Solar by C’N’C Costume

(TrendHunter.com) This funky handbag with built in solar panels is one hot purse! While the first handbags with solar-powered functionality to hit the market were for the most part ugly, the designs are starting to pick up.

This red suede handbag with blue panel and brown leather straps is the creation of C’N’C Cos…

$3,333.33 Ice Cream Sundaes – Three Twins Ice Cream

(TrendHunter.com) Trendhunter.com reported on the world’s most expensive ice cream sundae, the $1,000 Grand Opulence Sundae from Serendipity of New York City. Somebody should call Guinness to let them know there is a new kid on the block – Three Twins Ice Cream’s “World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae”. So how much…

Green Guerrilla Ads – Nothing Left To Weep For Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) The United Arab Emirates government reached out to the “more intelligent inhabitants of this planet” with a creative guerrilla campaign celebrating Earth Day 2008. The campaign reminds us that there will be nothing left “to weep for” if we do not act responsibly and try to save Mother Earth in every…

Super-Compact Electric Cars – Airwaves (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Airwaves is a little concept car designed by Lei Liu. The car was conceived with the intention of being an easy-to-park vehicle, offering less of a harrying, stress-laden adventure. The Airwaves design is also intended to provide a safe, comfortable and fun ride for the driver and passengers. The ca…

Mutant Humans as a Social Message – The Beacon’s Reversing Evolution Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In celebration of the recent earth day on April 22th, the Beacon organization released a creative and powerful campaign entitled Evolution.

The campaign asks you the following question: “Ready to go back where we came from?” The question is accompanied by an illustration of the long-term consequen…