Created by Bomdesign from the Netherlands, the Billbird House birdhouse is made from recycled European billboards & found handles. It’s European! Fancy!

It’s Friday. We’re giddy. And it’s time for another edition of GT World Watch. This time, at the request of our editor Scott, we bring you the solar bra.

Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan Ltd unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green colored, “Solar Power Bra” on Wednesday in Tokyo which features a solar panel worn around the stomach…Being eco-friendly is now fashionable in Japan, and the “Solar Energy Bra” follows the company’s other green-themed undergarments that include a bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag and one that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks.

Thanks Scott. What a way to end a week.

Eco-writer Leo Hickman, best known for his work with the Guardian has a new book out - Final Call.

Final Call is an examination of the environmental and social costs of our vacations in the sun on the local people. By offering solutions he hopes to guide readers towards making informed decisions in their holiday choices.

Sounds like it’s worth a read - we may just pick it up this weekend as we plan our next vacation.

From BBC News…

Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London…Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the “great extinction episodes” in the Earth’s history is under way, it says. Pollution, farming and urban expansion, over-fishing and hunting are blamed.

Read on. And check the sidebar for some equally dismal stories.

From the Charlotte Observer, let’s look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget. For example, “at the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, ‘The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.’”

Hey, if you can’t laugh at yourself…

Via Fark.

BambuHome is, uh, home to a slew of great home products made from renewable resources, most often bamboo. Our favourite of the moment is their range of kitchen tools made from certified organic bamboo. Hand-shaped, finished, and burnished to a satin feel, these suckers are stronger than wood and will not scratch your pots and pans. Safe to use. And heat and stain resistant. Nice website, too.

CoffeeBerry is the hot new thing.

What is it? Until now, the only coffee options we’ve had came from the roasted bean or seed of the coffee plant. Growers often just threw away the lush red fruit of the coffee plant because it was too perishable to process. But with new patent-pending technology, the fresh, ripe coffee fruit is now available as a whole powder, as well as in a concentrated extract form. This is what we call CoffeeBerry. Hey, they even have a CoffeeBerry website, from which we pretty much lifted the sentences above.

We spotted it in the wild recently, as an Abundance Health product. And hey, if LaMont endorses it, then we’re on board too!

Environmental-themed education for your kids creates an understanding of our relationship to our environment, fosters knowledge, skills and attitudes, and promotes awareness. And with that in mind, David Suzuki Foundation has developed the Nature Challenge For Kids - NC4K, of course. Go for it!

We love articles on saving gas, and what doesn’t save gas. Consider it a hobby. Enjoy.

Food manufacturing facilities, the fifth largest energy-consuming manufacturing category, have in front of them the tough task of reducing their energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions when the food manufacturing facility is, particularly, a frozen one. The problem? Temperature-controlling a facility that is similar to running 200,000 refrigerators.

In fact, no frozen food plant has ever been LEED-certified by the United States Green Building Counsel. That is, until Contessa Premium Foods invested $6 million in green innovation to become the first LEED-certified frozen food plant in the country and the first energy-efficient frozen food plant in the world.

Their new $40 million Green Cuisine Plant opened in Los Angeles earlier this year. And next month, the company will introduce their new Green Cuisine packaging to reflect the eco-friendlier meals that are now being produced at the plant.

We hate to start the day off with a rant, but here we go. In the second round of our ‘Jeers To’ campaign, we bring you Loblaws and Liberté.

Purchased: Several containers of Liberté Organic yogurt at our local Loblaws grocery store over a period of a few weeks.

Found After Opening: Mold on top. Because it happened more than a few times, this was obviously a product, shipping, or store problem.

Action: We contacted both Liberté and Loblaws about this, looking for some sort of resolution (just a few coupons to cover the cost of our wastage would have sufficed).

Responses: Loblaws said “any type of compensation does have to come directly from this vendor, as they are responsible for the quality of the product.” Liberté did not respond at all.

Verdict: Great store. Great yogurt. Poor form.

Thanks for everything Loblaws and Liberté. Jeers.

ELLE.com has put together a list of the twenty greenest Hollywood celebrities around and garnered their best tips for going green. Secrets to eco-success abound. From Leo to Willie to Natalie. Enjoy.

Read the ingredients list on your deodorant, shampoo and other cosmetics lately? Lots of multi-syllable words you’ve never heard of? Be wary of those. We smear and spray ourselves daily with concoctions that contain potentially harmful chemicals, some of which have been linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other major health problems.

Not to worry, help is here! Come on in to Lindsay Coulter’s Green Spa, for a demonstration on how to pamper yourself (and your friends) the safe and healthy way.

Via David Suzuki Foundation.