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"  Remember the eight awesome solar paneled bags featured in ELLE&amp;#039;s Fergie-covered May issue? Well they&amp;#039;re finally up for auction. The ELLE/Portable Light Project started with architect Sheila Kennedy. She was inspired by a trip to Mexico five year ago when she was struck by what she calls, &amp;quot;energy poverty.  She found herself in a particularly rural part of Mexico and then even more remote locales around the world where the lack of power lines and energy resources made it difficult to do anything after the sun set. So when she got back to the States, Kennedy designed a bag that serves as both a light and power source (not to mention its vast aesthetic appeal).  Its 13&amp;quot; x 4.75&amp;quot; flexible solar panel, rechargeable batteries, HBLED light, and USB port make it incredibly useful and entirely self sufficient and now she&amp;#039;s the director of the Portable Light Project, a non-profit organization providing poverty stricken communities across the world with solar textile kits. In May, she teamed up with ELLE and a slew of awesome designers. Tommy Hilfiger, Loomstate, Diane von Furstenberg, Loeffler Randall, Lutz &amp;amp;amp; Patmos, Rogan, Vena Cava, and Zero + Maria Cornejo all agreed to design solar powered bags to be auctioned off for the Portable Light Project. And now, you can finally get them so hurry up and grab your favorite on eBay before someone outbids you. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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