Ecologic Designs

Are You Green With Envy? We Are!

2008-06-22T07:47:00.000-07:00

World renowned supermodel Janice Dickinson hosted the first Green with Envy Fashion Experience featuring our designs plus many other eco-conscious brands. Celebrities and socialites enjoyed music, food and fashions at the swanky House of Petals in Los Angeles.

Various fashions from casual to formal were unveiled striking the crowd. We love to see designers and fashions moving towards eco-conscious design and manufacture. These articles were fashion forward: designed with the future, style and lifestyle in mind.

We are excited to be a part of this event and are looking to become more involved in these great shows. With our Green Goddess line coming out in the near future, you will see our designs more in the mainstream fashion world. We always want to hear what you want. So send us an email and tell us what you want out of a conscious line of fashion oriented accessories and bags!

Earthworks Expo!

2008-06-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

Coming Jun 21st in downtown Denver, Earthworks Expo is a unique event where vendors and speakers gather for your benefit. Here's what they say about this event: EarthWorks Expo is Denver's premier green event. Our 2008 Expo brings an estimated 150 exhibitors, dozens of workshops, world-class keynote speakers and special programs for young people to the Denver Merchandise Mart the weekend of Summer Solstice, June 21-22, 2008. It's the most inspiring, informative and empowering sustainable-living event ever offered in the Denver metro area.

Sounds like fun! We are so there. Really, we have a booth so drop on by, check out the event and enjoy a sustainable everything. We'll see you there!

Earth Works Expo
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3G iPhone Sleeve Development

2008-06-12T07:29:00.000-07:00

For all you iPhone fanatics, we know you either have one or are waiting in anticipation for July 11th and the 3G iPhone. We are totally excited.

We are so psyched about this device that we decided to develop the coolest, recycled iPhone sleeve case ever. Not only will this protect your investment, but it will help reduce materials polluting landfills.

We want your input. What do you want from a iPhone sleeve? Would you like it to have colorful billboard on the outside, or sleek black PET (recycled water bottles)? Soft PET fleece, or recycled foam? This is your chance to tell us what you want. So send e-mails, write comments, let us know.

This is going to be a very limited product, so pay attention and we will inform you when we are going live with this great design.

Teva Mountain Games

2008-06-04T15:05:00.000-07:00

Come visit the road crew this weekend for the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO. We have partnered with Teva to bring you some of the coolest bags that we have produced to date. Using the promotional banners, from last years event, we made a bunch of really cool and vibrant bags that we are really proud of, and they will be available for purchase at the Games.

No but honestly...these bags are SICK, but very limited, so come get your hands one before they are all gone.

We are also going to be saving hundreds of pounds of waste from land fills by resourcing all of this year's Teva event banners to make bags for corporate gifts and promotional items. Awesome! It takes cool partnerships with great companies like Teva to really "close the loop" and make a difference!

The Green Guru both will be part of the "Greenlight district" in "Gear Town" and the event will going on all weekend:

Friday, June 6th: 11am-5pm
Saturday, June 7th: 9am-5pm
Sunday, June 8th: 9am-4pm

Come watch world class climbers, bikers, runners and kayakers as they put it all on the line in name of a good time. A special thanks to Lara Bar, Outside Magazine, Climbing Magazine, Urban Climber, Pabst Blue Ribbon, SoBe, all of the other great sponsors and Vail Resorts for making it all happen. So if you want to come hang out, pick-up a bag, or just play in the sun a bit, we would love to see you there!

Larimer Square - La Piazza del'Arte

2008-06-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

Arte, Arte, Arte! You like art? You like eco? You are like us.

Artists from all over the map will be gathering in Larimer Square this weekend (June 7th & 8th) to create beautiful works of art using sidewalk chalk. Kid stuff you say? Well, yes there is a kids corner too for the young aspiring chalk artist in your family. Come for the art and stay for a wine dinner at the Capital Grille Sunday, June 8th, 7:00 PM, $125.00 per person, inclusive.

Yet another great event sponsored by Green Guru! Along with food vendors and amazing scenery you can't beat an afternoon downtown. We made custom bags for the event out of the street banners from Larimer Square and we will be reclaiming and re-purposing all the banners from this years event as well. (More waste saved from clogging up land fills)

La Piazza dell'Arte is produced by the Larimer Arts Association, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization committed to art education and awareness in downtown Denver. And they are working with Green Making taking the necessary steps to have a green event.
They will:

- Recycle all cardboard, plastic and glass used during the event
- Obtain and reuse "unusable" carpet samples and remnants for artist kneeling pads
- Require food vendors to use recycled flatware and paper products
- Minimize the power usage required of diesel-operated generators
- Reuse their street banners from previous years (Thanks to Green Guru)
- Involve eco-friendly sponsors (That's us!)

We think this is a really cool event and hope to see more communities gathering like this. So join us this weekend for a excellent event in historic downtown Denver! Oh and check out these bags we made for the event!

Ele: Vision Grande

2008-05-25T13:23:00.000-07:00

Wail-on Waylon! Talk about meeting with like-minded people. Once again, we had the opportunity to help support our local friends "Elephant Magazine". The beautiful, independent Boulder Theater played host for the launching of Elephant's most recent issue and the Green Guru Crew was on scene to 'Rock out Green'.

With a powerful line up of interviews, a political debate between the candidates for the 2nd congressional district, music from members of The Motet, an Eco-fashion/lingerie show (and an open bar!) the night had a little something for everybody.

Our very own Shannon Slopey modeled some hot eco-chic clothing from The Buffalo Exchange and a Green Guru Small Deluxe Billboard Messenger bag which she looked amazing in (of course).

A special thanks to the Ele crew members that helped with set up and to the Bar keep who kept everyone "hydrated" until the late hours of the night.

What a great time! We hope to see you all there next month when it all goes down again!

Dirt Days @ NCAR

2008-04-30T08:49:00.000-07:00

An appropriate titled event as we do enjoy dirt and being dirty. It is not only a state of mind, but a state of being. One learns to love the dirt as it goes hand in hand with the recycling and reclamation process. Yet, I digress.

The same great folks that puts on the Boulder Adventure Film Festival held this great event at NCAR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder. Designed by famous architect I. M. Pei, NCAR stands majestically in the foothills of the Flatirons. Attracting quite a crowd, Dirt Days was a fun event on a beautiful Colorado day.

Not just any beautiful Colorado day, but our favorite celebrated day: Earth Day. There were all sorts of cool things to do while attending this event from rock climbing to water bottle rocket liftoffs. Ecologic Designs' Eco Ambulance graced the merchant area with our new products manufactured from reclaimed and recycled materials. Not only did we have our products, but we also had reclamation bins set out for various materials. We provide these cool bins to any company that has a lot of material to recycle.

Again a great event and thanks to all those who contributed. So we go on, a little dirty, yet fully enthusiastic.

Green Drinks Boulder @ Redfish

2008-04-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

Check out this informal event for local professionals hosted by Green Drinks Boulder at Redfish bar on 13th between Pearl St. Mall and Pine St. We are sponsoring this event with free organic beer and a raffle for our brand new Padded Billboard Laptop Messenger.

This event is for professionals in the Boulder area looking to interact with local green businesses. Ecologic Designs is the featured company and will give a short intro regarding our methodologies of sustainable business. Please join us for this 5:30 event at Redfish with Green Drinks Boulder!

Seattle Green Festival

2008-04-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

After a great Green Festival in Seattle, the Road Crew is back from a long trip. We managed to drive from Colorado to Seattle and back with all our products, booth materials, over 60 gallons of fuel, and three guys. Well, we didn't come back with nearly as much product or fuel, but that was planned.

Thanks to our friends at Propel Biofuels, we fueled up with B99, which is 99% pure biodiesel, at their new station on Leary in Ballard. Not only did this get us moving for many sustainable miles, but we found a really cool Biodiesel sticker right on the side of their pump. So grab some domesticly made fuel and show your support for this biofuel revolution!

We must say, it was hard to leave. Thanks again to Propel Biofuels, and the Green Festival crews. We look forward to bringing Green Guru Gear back to the Pacific Northwest next year and years to come!

First Annual Denver Veg Fest is Tomorrow

2008-04-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

Why hang out in one city, when you cover two? While the Road Crew is workin it in Seattle, we'll be supporting our local community this Saturday from 10am-5pm at the Ritz Carlton in Denver. It's our first Denver Veg Fest, and activists I'm sure won't be disappointed. It will be our first veggie event too, but since all of our gear and clothing is vegan, why would we miss it?

Here's the hotel info: 1881 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado 80202
Phone: (303) 312-3800 Fax: (303) 312-3801

Show Time: 10am - 5pm
Speakers & Music, Chefs, Advocacy it's all here too! more info

Seattle Green Festival is the Best Of All

2008-04-07T15:56:00.002-07:00

Coming soon (April 12th, 13th) to a Washington State Convention and Trade Center near you: The Seattle Green Festival!

We are very excited to announce our soon to be arrival in the Seattle metropolitan area this Thursday in preparation for a weekend of environmentally friendly eventage. Not only is a Green Festivals event, but this is the first for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. This most certainly is a big deal!

We know this green festival will rock. So if you are in town, drop on by for a great time in a cool city. We are in booth 315 describing and displaying our gear and clothing.

What a World Wellness Weekend

2008-04-07T15:56:00.001-07:00

We had a great time at the World Wellness Weekend in Albuquerque, NM. Not only was it a fun, educational event but the Michael Franti concert was way cool!

Our trip was precluded by an alarming chilly morning and a road tour vehicle that wouldn't start. Our vegetable powered ambulance was out of commission. Nonetheless, we made it to the event on time. Our intrepid crew member, Justin, replaced the injection pump, which pressurizes the biodiesel and WVO into the cylinders, not a small job by any means.

Yet another great event. We will be on the road soon for the Seattle Green Festival happening the 12th and 13th of April.

The Recycle X-Games

2008-04-04T11:42:00.000-07:00

Green Guru was back on campus this week! This time we were there to support our friends in the CU Recycling Center by sponsoring the annual Recycle X-Games! The event was action packed with a variety of games for students, faculty, and campus visitors. From "Recycle Pong" to "The Dumpster Dive" there was no shortage of creative games to participate in.

As the leading sponsor of the event, Green Guru provided a prize for the winner of each event and a Grand Prize Messenger Bag for the person who had the highest cumulative score from all the events.

Outreach events like this are really fun for us to do. We are continually working to strengthen and support our community and develop partnerships with like-minded people and organizations.

We had a blast talking to everyone at the event. It's great to hear all the stories that people had to share with us about what they are doing individually to make a difference in their own communities and neighborhoods. Keep it up!

As for us, we will continue to support the conscious Colorado campus community, and our friends in the CU Environmental Center who are working hard to make CU a sustainable place with a zero carbon footprint. That's a goal that we can all support...Go CU!

Party with elevision tonight!

2008-02-13T14:13:00.000-08:00

Green Guru likes Elephant, and Elephant is like you: conscious, mindful and progressive. So come out and join Green Guru in supporting Elephant Journal's elevision talk show going on tonight and (just about) every Wednesday at Trilogy Lounge on 2017 13^th Street in Boulder just off of 13^th and Pine St.

Tonight will feature Chris Sharma, Dean Potter and Prana Apparel as well as all the like minded guests we can generate. So throw your shoes on, get off your couch and come hang out at elevision with the Green Guru Team to enjoy music by Honest Soul, Carmen Von Davis. Come sip on $5 Elephantinis with us!

6:30 PM - drinks & live music
7:00 PM to 7:45 - talk show
7:45 PM to 8:30 - the party never stops

Greening Up Sundance

2008-02-13T13:58:00.000-08:00

Green Guru is proud have had the opportunity to help green up this year's Sundance Film Festival by partnering up with EconsciousMarket to support the first annual Giving Suite this January 17 to 27, 2008.

Following the mantra of 'Giving Is The New Getting,' green vendors came together to turn the concept of a gifting suite right side up and were able to produce the festival's first eco-boutique featuring sustainable products. Putting the power back into the hands of the consumer, 100 percent of the profits were donated to the VIP buyer's nonprofit of their choice.

The Giving Suite was really well received by the Sundance community. All the Green Guru Gear that we brought to Park City ended up selling out before the festival was even over! We are looking forward to being part of next year's Giving Suite and continuing to work with Econscious and all of the other great vendors that participated in this years event.

Also a special thanks to Jen Murphy from Afterglow Mineral Cosmetics, another featured Econscious vendor, who helped give Green Guru a strong presence at the suite while supporting Econscious by helping operate things on the ground in Park City.

Solio gaining exposure

2008-02-07T17:23:00.000-08:00

Our good friends at Solio have recently gotten some great press in the New York Times. Their Solio Hybrid 1000 and two other competing solar chargers were reviewed by a family hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro. Check out the positive things they have to say. Great stuff guys. Keep it up!

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National Geographic Green Guide Staff Pick - Billboard Snowboard Bag

2007-12-26T19:20:00.000-08:00

The National Geographic 2007 Green Guide Staff Picks our billboard snowboard bag as a favorite. Listed among other great green products, our recycled highway billboard snowboard bag makes the list as a green gear option. Thanks Green Guide Staff. We look foward to the new Green Guide magazine comming in March 2008.

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POFREAD.com - The most famous climbing blog in the world raves about our chalk bag

2007-12-26T18:10:00.000-08:00

Our Climbing Rope Chalk bag is blogged by Pofroad.com. A climbing blog written in French. We recieved tons of great interest and comments on the bag. Unfortunately we are sold out, but will be offering more very soon. Made from recycled / reclaimed climbing rope on the rim, bike inner tubes on the bottom, hemp on the sides and recycled fleece on the inside it doesn't get more eco cool than this. Also check out our recycled / reclaimed climbing rope key chains and bracelets. Thanks again to our French fans at www.Pofroad.com.

Eco Gift Expo

2007-12-14T08:26:00.000-08:00

The Green Guru team will be showing at the Eco Gift Expo in Santa Monica, CA the weekend of the 15th and 16th! Come check out this most excellent event where you shall find the perfect gifts for your green (and red) holiday.

This event is being held in the Santa Monica Civic Autorium. The hours are as follows: Sat 9am-8pm & Sun 9am-5pm. Tickets are only $10. Children and seniors are free.

Join us for this great event!

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From Boulder with Love for San Fran

2007-11-05T17:29:00.000-08:00

The San Francisco Green Festival is almost upon us! Are you prepared? Well, we are! The guys are flying down the highway at nearly legal speeds on nothing but pure vegetable oil preparing for yet another awesome Green Festival.

We will be located at booth 100 in the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center. Join us for a great time.

Friday: 2pm to 8pm; Saturday: 10am to 8pm; Sunday: 11am to 6pm

San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St (at Brannan St)
San Francisco, CA 94103

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Green Guru @ Bioneers!!!

2007-10-22T15:40:00.000-07:00

Out and about again, the team here at Green Guru packed up the veggie powered ambulance and headed to off to participate in Bioneers!

Bioneers is a gathering of leading scientific innovators & environmental visionaries who offer practical solutions to the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time.

We wanted to show our support for one of our great e-tailors. Econsciousmarket.com. We are featured on their amazing site as a vendor of responsible, quality goods so they asked us come along and join them in spreading a little E-consciousness. So we brought out some merchandise and a few good people to lend a hand where we could.

At Econsciousmarket.com every purchase puts the economic power back into the hands of the consumer by donating 50% of the profits from each product sold to the non-profit of their choice. All of us at Green Guru are really excited to be on board with the guys over at Econsciousmarket.com.

Other great organizations that were represented at Bioneers included Elephant Magazine, Gengreen.com, Redirect Guide, Community cycles, and Conscious Alliance all of which were great to see there and hear about what their all up to.

Green Guru at Colorado University Recycled Products Extravaganza

2007-10-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

This was the second year that Green Guru participated in the Recycled Materials Fair and the amount of response that was generated by the student body was really extraordinary. Green Guru was glad to donate a stylish billboard series tote that was given out as a door prize to one lucky student. The fair was a huge success with artists, vendors, and volunteers all coming together to spread good vibes and share dialog and products geared towards sustainability.

The campus community was really eager to talk about recycling and sustainability. We had the opportunity to talk to and make friends with a lot of really conscious people striving to make a difference in their own communities in their own individual ways.

In other good news we also made an on campus contact with CU’s bike station. All of us at Green Guru were glad to hear that the bike station already had a recycling program for their blown-out bike inner tubes. However, the bike station was really excited when they found out that we were starting a national inner-tube recycling program, the first one of its kind in the country, and they wanted to participate. That means a large portion of our blowout series is now made with inner tubes straight from the CU campus population. This also means that the bike station is reducing its carbon output by recycling locally and conserving the fuel and shipping costs incurred by sending their inner tubes out of state. A definite win-win situation for the community and everyone involved. We are all looking forward to participating in the fair next year.

DC Green Festival Turnout

2007-10-22T15:01:00.000-07:00

Another great green event in Washington DC turned out 40,000 or so visitors for a weekend of green lectures and exhibitors. Green Guru and Green Goddess Gear was there with a great line of products exciting the public with the creative use of reclaimed/recycled materials including billboards, inner tubes, and climbing ropes along with natural fibers like hemp, bamboo and organic cotton.

From coast to coast the green consciousness is certainly growing. The DC visitors were eager to learn about sustainable products and lifestyles. As usual people couldn’t believe that billboards were now vinyl and immediately thanked us for salvaging and turning them into usable products. In conversation we also had a chance to hear about other great materials that could find their way to a creative reuse.

Other exhibitors we had a great time meeting with include Reware and Juice Bags that we will be working on cobranded Solar panel bags http://www.rewarestore.com/ , Golden Fuel Systems http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/ , Jungmaven Hemp Lifestyle, Sweet Riot Chocolates, Green Heart Store, Enlightenment Magazine, PLENT Magazine and more.

On other green adventure notes we travelled to the event in the Eco Ambulance travelling a good percentage of the way on vegetable oil and biodiesel. Along the way meeting with bike shops and outfitters interested in starting recycling programs and carrying Green Guru and Goddess Gear.

Washington DC Green Festival

2007-10-04T10:30:00.001-07:00

What's that you say, another Green Festival? That's right. The guys are on the road again trekking from Boulder, CO to Washington DC in the eco-ambulance.

We will have a booth setup showcasing our gear in the in the Washington DC Convention Center on Oct. 6 and 7. Join us from 10AM - 8PM on Saturday, and 11AM - 6PM on Sunday. There will be great food, music, speakers and of course Green Guru!

Washington D.C. Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Green Guru supports Rocky Mtn. Sustainable Living Fair in Ft. Collins This Weekend

2007-09-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

Every year the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair just keeps getting better. The Fair, now in it's 8th year, is produced by the great folks at Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association. Featuring 175 exhibitors, 35 workshops, keynote speakers, demonstrations, Planet Youth, Zen Zone, entertainment, beer garden, and much more.

GREEN GURU GEAR = BOOTH #614

And to give you an idea about how successful this event is:
2006 Resource Diversion Statistics
196 pounds of cardboard recycled
443 pounds of food and paper scraps fed to our red worms
127 pounds of commingled containers recycled
15 pounds of doggie waste
ONLY 160 pounds of waste went to the landfill after a 2-day event attended by 7662 people

The 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair will be held at New Belgium Brewing Company's OxBow property located at 500 Linden Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524. For more information call 970-224-FAIR, please do not call the brewery directly for directions or other information regarding the Fair.

Map to Fair Site at New Belgium Brewing

Fair Hours:
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Fair Admission:
$5/day, Kids under 12 free
Purchase tickets at the entrance