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Portland’s Renovo Bikes is quietly building a reputation for their super functional, slick-looking wooden bike frames. The lightweight, smooth-riding Pandurance Road Bike, from the company’s Panda bamboo series, is made from, you guessed it, bamboo, one of our planet’s most sustainable woods. Renovo's Panda series is green with no apologies for performance. As a......read more
The Green:Mod cabinet series from Iannone Design is informed by clean, modern lines and a strong focus on environmentally friendly materials. This Wood Stripe 2-drawer nightstand is made from a rapidly renewable bamboo frame with an FSC-certified birch plywood interior. The front is made of domestic solid walnut and finished with a low VOC water-based lacquer for healthier indoor air quality.......read more
If you love your bike, why not show it off? The Pinch, from Pittsburgh, PA cycling boutique ClankWorks, is a perfect bike stand solution for the home. Designed and manufactured in the Steel City, the Pinch is made of two elegantly shaped slats of bamboo laminate. The unit uses the weight of your bicycle to firmly lock the rear wheel into place, then, when you're ready to roll, just lift your......read more
Adorbs alert! Discovery assembled an "awwww"-inspiring slide show of endangered baby animals. Are fixies over? We have no idea, but this bamboo joint from Germany's Arndt Menke-Zumbragel tells us no. Lance Armstrong is down too. The world's most famous cyclist called it a "killer wooden bike" on his Twitter. Can't disagree. Check out those rear forks! ......read more
Twisted is a fun furniture piece from SF-based designer Dylan Gold that can be used in one or more of several ways — as a console table, a wall mounted display cabinet, or a vertical bookshelf. One twisted box sits is framed by four in-line boxes, creating an interesting and inventive focal point. Made from rapidly renewable bamboo and covered with a non-toxic finish....read more
Sustainable designers Kenneth Cobonpue and Albrecht Birkner have joined forces to shape what's being touted as the world's first biodegradable car. The Phoenix is a superlight roadster built from rapidly renewable bamboo and rattan, along with steel and nylon. Borrowing design principles from Mother Nature herself, the exterior structure is built like a leaf and the interior is a single woven......read more
As a design material, bamboo hits on all the right notes. It's strong but lightweight, cheap but sustainable. And in the hands of a skilled artisan, it looks damn good. This crispy-looking, Oregon-made Silva Bamboo Macbook case is a fine example. Sized to fit 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros (note: not MacBook Airs), the cases are lined with wool felt, and feature a leather hand strap for carrying.......read more
For those of us that spend long hours clicking and typing away on plastic machines, Impecca's lovely wooden computer peripherals add some natural warmth to the computing experience. Made from fast-growing, highly renewable bamboo, the Impecca Bamboo Keyboard and Mouse combo is about as green as computer stuff gets. But what may make it even more green is how nice it looks and feels, making it far......read more
For great-looking, guilt-free homewares, look no further than Core Bamboo. The eco-minded housewares brand has bamboo design applications for every room in the house, from the kitchen to the bedroom to the bathroom. Our favorite? Core's kitchen bowls, which are as good as they get, with lively splashes of exterior color contrasted against warm wooden interiors. And the durable, lightweight bamboo......read more
NYC's Izola is quickly becoming a SHFT fave for its quirky, heritage-inspired bathroom accessories. The brand's collection of bamboo toothbrushes includes these ones, stamped with the word "Guest," so your overnight visitors always have a non-plastic tooth-cleaning option when they stay over. Now that's hospitality. ...read more
