Well, it certainly has been a great year for Ecologic Designs. We have traveled thousands of miles, designed many new products and are developing some very cool partnerships - and had a fun time doing so!

I want to thank our people - our most important asset. A year ago, our team was a small, efficient group with a burning passion to grow. Today, we stand tall with a hard working team forging new paths in sustainable operation and manufacture as well as green product design. I can't describe the amazing changes that I've witnessed since our inception. Thanks guys and gals!

We would not be where we are without you. You - the owners of a Green Guru item - are to thank for such a great response to our intiatives and products! You have made 2008 a wonderful experience and I look forward to the excellent possibilities in 2009! Let's make '09 one to remember.

Before I go, I'd like to give a shout out to a couple of the organizations that hooked up a review or entered us into a gift guide this holiday season.

Environmental News Network (ENN) showed Green Guru Gear much respect when they included us in their sweet press release about saving the earth while getting exercise. Not only that but we were in their number one of seven ways to be fit and green - yeah, coolness.

Mother Nature Network (MNN) hooked up a great post for their Cheap and Green Gift Guide. and cool picture of our smaller products. There even may be a coupon code somewhere...

Great stuff! Also want to let you know about a cool energy fair happening in Manitou Springs, CO this January. Old Town Bike Shop is going to raffle off one of our Billboard Small Deluxe Messengers. I'll get you more info when it comes my way!

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Happy Holidays from the Gurus!

Deep beneath the surface, heat and pressure forge carbon, hydrogen and other primordial elements into that rich, onyx sludge known as petroleum. From this black gold, today, many products are made - one of which, vulcanized rubber truck inner tubes, seems to make it to local landfills by the truckload. We fight back with thought and innovation. We reclaim what others waste. We shine through.

Passion has been an important, underlying theme in redesigning one of our most special products. We tussled with the tough nature of this material through the whole process, yet we know the end result is more than worth the effort expended over the many months of development. Can't deny it, we love this product.

Check it out, give it a rough time, it'll keep truckin’. Talk trash to it - won't hurt it - that's exactly what it was before its transformation. Now it shines bright through the dark heralding in a new identity for reclaimed products. We made this bag for us, and yet again, we share it with you. A finished design today – a product built for tomorrow. We shine through the sludge.