Obsessed: Recycled Skateboard Goodies

Made with recycled skateboard lids, these containers come in 2 varieties, $49.50

When we saw these MapleXO "Coney Containers" at Portland store Betsy & Iya, we had to have them. Once we brought them home, we became officially obsessed: they're functional, stylish, green and affordable, all at once! These little ceramic containers with recycled skateboard lids are the perfect size for storing salt, spices, tea, jewelry—anything. They also come with a wipeable china marker for labeling. Genius!

Check out some of our other favorites from the MapleXO website...

Screw drivers with recycled skateboard handles, $60 for a set

Gorgeous recycled skateboard table lamp, $595

Multi-puprose glasses with coaster/lids, $35 for a set

Card-Carrying Feminist

We're in love with these small but powerful pieces of art that make you—literally—a card-carrying FEMINIST. Available for pre-order today from one of our favorite Portland creative minds/consultants/conceptualists, Jennifer Armbrust, aka Armbrust & Co.  $8.

State Give-Back Packs

Love these backpacks for more than their looks...State Bags has a one-for-one sales policy

Here at Plover, we are big fans of the "One For One" movement/philosophy/new capitalism. With State Bags, for every backpack you purchase, one will be donated to a student growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in the U.S. State Bags was founded by non-profit veterans Scot and Jacqueline Tatelman, who were tired of "seeing countless kids carrying their most precious possessions in trash bags."  Shop State Bags here—everything from colorful cotton bags for $55 to upscale leather for $225—and know that another bag will go to a child who really needs it. (State did their first "bag drop" just last week in Brooklyn...pretty awesome.)