Simple Shoes - Environmentally friendly shoes and bags

Today while perusing Facebook we spotted an ad for Simple. It's a new line from Deckers Outdoor Corporation geared completely towards environmentally friendly shoes and bags made from recycled plastics, cotton, hemp, and even car tires! Deckers Corp is also behind the uber popular Teva sandals brand, UGG (those "ugly" woll boots that surfers used to wear in Australia, now popular with preppy college girls), TSUBO, and... Deckers.

The new www.simpleshoes.com website allows users to search in several unique ways for their green shoes including vegan friendly, press (where you might have seen the shoes featured), and collection. In addition to standard "eco friendly shoes" there are several designs themed to universities including the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Buffs), University of Wisconsin, Texas Longhorns, Stanford, Duke, and Cal Berkeley.

The whole organic cotton/hemp thing is cool but the car tires are what got us really excited. The website states that "we collect used car tires that would normally be sent to a landfill, cut them up, and then use them as outsoles on some of our shoes" an idea that has been done before on a smaller scale but never picked up by a major brand.

In addition to shoes there are several cool bags available from Simple Shoes as well as a blog and a storybook adventure site by Dan Price (a digital hobo who lives "simply" as he explores the nation) called the Moonlight Chronicles. Simple Shoes also has a team of thirteen sponsored surfer athletes. Not bad...