Second edition of some cool eco-stuff you might have missed over the weekend.

(Above picture) Plastic coffee stirrers upcycled into upscale designer tables by Studio Verissimo.  They also use this common coffee shop waste to make chairs and chandeliers in 3 colors.  Via Ecofriend

Marti Guixé, a Spanish designer, designed the Xarxa Sofa which is basically a chair which holds pillows that can be rearranged for personal comfort.  Via Freshome

Yesterday’s News’ set of 12 colored pencils made from recycled Chinese newspapers are available for a reasonable $10 as an alternative to wooden pencils.  Via Inhabitots

SRI International boosts the energy-efficiency of OLEDs with a new design, called COLED (“Cavity” OLED), which generates as much as five times the output of a standard OLED using the same amount of energy.  Via Gizmag

YoungWoo & Associates along with New York based architects LOT-EK, came up with a winning design for Pier 57.  The Hudson River Park board and community advocates chose their design (which incorporates used shipping containers) to revamp the old pier into something green that everyone can enjoy and close by  to the newly opened Highline.  Via Treehugger

San Francisco is finally going to start building its first zero energy house in 2010.  Designed by LSarc Architects, the home features a 1500-gallon water reclamation system which also collects rainwater to irrigate the backyard vegetable garden and an eight kilowatt solar array.  Via Ecofriend

Carhenge is a play on Stonehenge in Alliance, Nebraska.  The cars are actually placed in accordance with the real Stonehenge whose original function has been hypothesized to be for healing, burial and/or worship by a very early culture.  Via Inhabitat

By channeling the roots of trees across a river in the span of 10-15 years, a bridge is created in the rainforests of Cherrapunji, India. Via GreenUpgrader

Normal bike lights not making you feel safe enough while riding at night?  Not to fear, Lightlane is going into production pretty soon. Via WorldChanging

In other bike news, good news everyone! “Bike commuting rates have sky rocketed, going from 483,145 commuters nationally in 2003 to 664,859 in 2007. That’s a 37.6 percent increase in the number of people who take their bike to work.” Via Good

A fashion representation of the future climate by Nathalie Talec.  It appears that it will be getting cold some time soon.  Most see the climate as warming up; Nathalie sees it a different way.    As our climate changes we not only see the rise in temperature, we have seen dips in low temperatures counter balancing each other as well as glacial meltdown bringing an influx of fresh water to the Atlantic creating an ice-age known as the Younger Dryas effect.

This picture can set the mood for an extreme makeover as well as an extreme environment.  Perhaps a new look for the upcoming Vogue magazine featuring the latest Calvin Klein wear exclusively for the new environment–dubbed as “PostEco Couture.”  Forget the organic cotton make sure your clothing is coated with latest polymers to defend against the elements.

This photograph does bring a hypothetical representation and mindset of where we may be heading, perhaps extreme, but nevertheless it is something to consider like the artist has considered.

Break out the aluminum shades, fur and Nivea skin cream for a walk to the grocery store

Could a less extreme example of this be happening now?