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Sacrifice neither your pantie line, nor the planet with 7 sexy organic cotton thongs. That's right. Now you can invest in cotton undies that help support organic agriculture and impress that fella you met at Green Drinks. Ladies, we’ve rounded up the top panties that that will help you stay in green style the next time you need to strip down to your skivvies. Guys, we think you'll want to take a peak, too. Curious to see this, er, cheeky, collection? Click on through to our essential Ooh-la-la Organic Panties image gallery.

Kijiti image from kila kitu

Kila Kitu is swahili for "everything" and it's the name of a new company that makes cowboy shirts out of old clothes from Kenya's markets. Started by a Canadian, Bart Sullivan, a former development worker who came back to Kenya for a visit and wanted to stay. His favourite cowboy shirt was dirty, he asked a tailor to copy it and so begins a story.

He and his tailor comb the depths of Nairobi's sprawling second hand clothing markets to find the best patterns and fabrics. They reuse these to make a very cool range of cowboy shirts, each with a different name and provenance. The shirt pictured is called the Kijiti which is Swahili for stick and is the name of a boy's game. Each one comes with its own matching bag.

Photos: Guillermo Gomez via Dacca blog.

We've talked about plastic bags fusing before as a way to keep polyethylene bags going, and even pointed you to a tutorial to DIY, but so far we hadn't seen the material applied to footwear and in such an elegant way.

These boots are the work of Chilean industrial design student Camila Labra, and made mostly of recycled plastic bags. Keep reading to find out about the process, prices and more models.

Recent Comment by clear perspective : "Its all about learning the facts about plastic bags and our environment. For more info..." [read]

Carla Bruni is a former model, pop-singer, sex-pot and, oh yes, the wife of the President of France. So when this ultra-stylish and stunning First Lady carries a handbag--people look out for it. Bruni went to South Africa with her husband the President and visited a South African township, Khayelitsha, near Cape Town. She was given a cotton and hessian stitched bag in the six colours of the South African flag. She started to use it, and suddenly the most fashionable boutique in all of Paris, Colette, takes it on to sell in their shop. Since there were only 421 of them made, it becomes an instant cult status symbol: for once a fashion statement that’s both stylish and socially conscious.

Recent Comment by RemyC : "Carla should worry more about her hubby being the door to door salesman for the nuclear..." [read]

Photo credit I'mClaude

Part of creating the ultimate sustainable planet will be our ability to find sustainable energy sources in a variety of means, such as sunlight, water flow, wind, and yes, even rain. We are of course speaking of the kinetic energy which can be harnessed from rain, which up until a few months ago, was not being considered for use in a consumer product...

Photo via Original Good

This is Garbage. Or so says its description. This and many other beautiful items are made by an organization called Conserve, which takes non-recyclable trash from the streets of India and turns it into treasures.

Click through for a video about the project.

Photo Via: Discover This

While Christmas morning has come and gone, there’s no doubt that many kids across America are feeling flush with cash as a result of the holiday; and there’s a great, fun toy put out by Bill Nye that’s aimed at helping kids understand the process of recycling paper that the young, eco-conscious consumer in your house may be interested in.

Organic Apparel for Home or Travel
If you spend much time listening to the radio or watching the news, you’d be forgiven for thinking that shopping is dead – and certainly the environment may benefit from a little less blind consumerism as we pass the holiday season. But the good folks at Indigenous Designs, whose organic, fair trade apparel has long been available in stores like REI, and have even hit the pages of the Wall Street Journal, are clearly hoping there are enough green clothing enthusiasts out there to support their new line in organic clothing – the Sport Resort Collection for women, which is being released for Spring 09. Here’s a little more about the collection: