Eco-friendly doesn't have to mean drab. These pretty picks will help save the planet — one gift at a time

Eco-friendly doesn't have to mean drab. These pretty picks will help save the planet--one gift at a time

By DEPARTMENT Monday, Nov. 21, 2005

    • • On the Rocks These recycled glass tumblers by Fire & Light, $17 each, come in cobalt, celery and six other luminous colors. Click on Kitchen at greenfeet.com where you'll also find disposable bamboo plates, bowls and utensils.

    • Arm Candy Designer Dana Roth of Portland, Ore., fashions her D-licious cuff bracelets out of recycled beer and soda cans and sterling silver. Choose brand (Guinness, Miller, Sunkist, Tab) and width: the 3/4-in. cuffs cost $80 apiece, the 1/4 in. $60, at elsewares.com

    • Naturally Soft Goodhumans.com carries organic cotton crew socks, hemp sweat pants and other "green" clothing, plus accessories such as this batik hemp pillow, $16.25, produced by a village co-op in northern Thailand. The filling is kapok, a soft fiber that comes from a silk-cotton tree.

    • Squeezed for Time The Juice Clock, $45, is made from recycled detergent bottles. It comes in orange, lemon and grapefruit and runs on a single AA battery. Normalstuff.net also sells a handsome $29 trash can made from reclaimed car tires.

    • Warm Fuzzy These supersoft cashmere mittens, $72, were sewn together from pieces of secondhand sweaters. Go to ekologic.com for hats, scarves, skirts and other original pieces by designer Kathleen Tesnakis.