Ecologic Designs

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.

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

Going to Philly Green Fest this weekend!

2007-09-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

Well, as coincidence would have it, Green Guru Gear's is heading to Philly's Green Fest this year. The coincidence? Our National Sales Manager grew up in West Philly and this trip could send us all into nostalgia. We're all choked up about it; visiting a city with so much character, history and real people. This year's Philly Green Fest is gonna be packed!

Join us, over 120 vendors and about 10,000 people to "To accelerate the pace of greening in Philadelphia and the planet."

When to be there: this Sunday Sept 9th, from 11 am – 6 pm, spanning South Street, from 7th to 11th streets. Green Guru will be in front of Whole Foods in the Sustainable Fashion & Design Block

See you there! We're Booth Number FD21

Green Guru Gear Shows How It's Done At Outdoor Retailer

2007-08-23T13:40:00.001-07:00

Outdoor Retailer Summer Trade Show is the industry's premier marketplace for manufacturers and buyers to mingle and see what's coming down the pike in the next buying season. It's where we went this year to officially present our Green Guru Gear Label products to every major producer and retailer of outdoor and lifestyle products in the country and abroad. So, how did it go... you ask?

How many ways to say this. Um, Green Guru is going to be the best, well-known sustainable manufacturer of outdoor gear, bags and accessories. Anywhere.
People love what we are doing and how we're doing it. We were thanked so many times for being absolutely committed to creating unique and valuable products that are about as eco-friendly as you can get. I'm gonna get a big head over this if I'm not careful. I am pleased to tell you that Green Guru is making it's mark and will be in some of the coolest stores in the country this holiday season and for next year's spring gear spree. Also, our B2B Division is up and running, and we'll be making some goodies for companies you know and love.

Road Trip 101
We loaded up the eco-ambulance with crew, mtn bikes, 70 gallons of veggie oil, our hand-crafted booth, some cool products and we hit the road for Salt Lake City. After 5 days in town, we were able to go for a bike ride outside of town, I think one run was called The Pipeline. The views of the city were incredible with sunset colors and cool breezes awakened our senses to why we love to be outside as much as do.

The next morning we found one more opportunity to collect some dirt, the hard way. Heading down a trail on Park City Mountain Resort we unfortunately suffered a mild casualty, but his bike is okay, so all is well. At least we resourced a few chain-links and two bike tubes!

Work hard, play hard people.
There is no better time to be alive!

THE DENVER POST - Going Green - Back To School Article

2007-08-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

Featured in the Denver Post August 7, 2007, Ecologic Designs' Green Guru Gear was featured in a back to school gear article highlighting environmentally friendly products.

"Why we like it: Made from recycled billboard materials that would have otherwise end up in landfills; looks like a work of art."

Thanks for the great review DENVER POST.

Earth Works Expo

2007-07-26T18:08:00.000-07:00

We are at it again! Green Guru has a booth at this year's Earth Works Expo located in Denver's Merchandise Mart this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Our booths are in Expo Hall 2, very near the entrance. They are booths 304 and 306, which are marked in red on the map to the right.

We hope you join us for a great show with a green message! In the mean time, why not check out some of our green products!

Boulder Creek Festival

2007-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

We have a booth at the Boulder Creek Festival from May 26th to the 28th. Three whole days! Come on down to the Canyon side of the creek near 9th street bridge and visit us. Check out the map below and look for us near the big green X.

Great Response from Chicago’s Green Festival

2007-04-27T13:42:00.000-07:00

Ecologic Designs’ trip to Chicago for the Green Festival was a great experience. Not only were our products very well received by the 35,000 attendees, but people got a chance to learn and understand our company’s unique stance on recycling and environmentalism.

Our booth, as you can see in the pictures, was a frenzy of products, recycled gear, and people. Many of those people said we had the coolest booth and products in the festival. We feel they were justified with their compliments. Thanks to great conventions like Green Festival, we learn more about what you want from an environmentally smart company. We look forward to seeing you at the Boulder Creek Festival!

Green Guru and Green Goddess Fashion Show Success

2007-04-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

April 14th: illiterate’s ill Release @ The Spot Bouldering Gym

Ecologic Designs and its Green Guru and Green Goddess Fashion simply and utterly rocked the fashion world with their recycle style outfits. Thanks to smart lines and progressive materials, they showed their design prowess by meshing style with sustainability.

House music blaring and camera strobes flashing, our models took to the stage and stole the show. Reclaimed highway billboards, recycled truck inner tubes, and new organic fabrics adorned our models.

The audience, crammed to the stage, thoroughly enjoyed themselves. It was a successful night for Ecologic Designs’ daring venture into the fashion realm. Keep an eye out for more fashion news right here.

Chicago Green Festival

2007-04-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

Ecologic Designs and Green Guru Gear will have a booth set up at Chicago's Green Festival on the 21st and 22nd of April. The event takes place in McCormick Place just south of Soldier Field. Ticket information can be found here.

"Join us for these huge parties with a purpose. You'll enjoy more than 200 visionary speakers and 400 green businesses in each city, great how-to workshops, green films, yoga and movement classes, green careers sessions, organic beer and wine, delicious organic cuisine and live music. " Link