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Things like jewelry made from old bicycle parts and soft fabrics for shirts, dresses and blankets made from recycled plastic water bottles stole the show.

"From the bottle we have to go through a cleaning process and then we cut into the flakes," says Margaret Feng from Recycle Movement. "Then from flakes we’ll melt and make into plastic chips and then the chips go through a spinning machine to spin yarn and are made into the fabric."

And until someone figures out a fashionable way to wear your old styrofoam cups, developers at New Wincup Holdings say there's a special additive in their styrofoam cups that allows them to biodegrade much faster than any other similar product.

"In 90 days the cup is degraded, in active landfill conditions, 11.5 percent," says Fran Alexay from New Wincup Holdings. "So on the fast-track that cup would biodegrade in about two-and-a-quarter years versus a cup today that would hang out in a landfill for 10 to 20 years."

Globes are not typically mentioned when talking about the energy crisis, but Mova Globes appropriately highlights the benefits of getting yourself off the power grid as much as possible.

Designers say they give you a relaxing way to contemplate the future.

"These things are powered by light and also derive their torque from the Earth's magnetic field," says Bill French from TurtleTech Design. "So they live, if you will, on ambient energy, ambient fields, and you can look at them and imagine a future where things use less energy and are more peaceful and don't need batteries and power cords and things like that."

And soon you may be able to design one yourself, to give you more personal motivation to help improve the planet.