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This week’s prize is doubly exciting for us: it’s 100% eco-friendly and comes from a local Virginia business (just up the road from Richmond in Culpeper, VA). Green Nest‘s got such a broad smorgasbord of kind-to-the-earth gifts that we’re psyched that this week’s winner will score such stylish loot. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get to it.
First off, the winner gets their choice of any 3 x 5 or 4 x 6 Fab Habitat recycled rug (woven from recycled polypropylene straws). Here’s a sampling of some of 50+ designs you get to pick from.
Then there’s a soy candle that comes in a decorative silk-screen glass. There are 19 designs to choose from and after the 90 hours of candle burning time you can reuse the glass (and even drink out of it).
But you won’t necessarily need that glass for drinking because the prize pack includes your choice of recycled soda/beer bottle tumbler set (you know I’m jealous of whoever wins this one since I failed miserably at my own DIY attempt). There are four in a set and 5 styles to choose from.
Last but not least, a green prize pack wouldn’t be complete without a little greenery. The winner can choose two of these Garden-in-a-Bag kits for growing some herbs without even having to get your hands dirty.
So that’s the prize. Stay tuned for a discount on Thursday, but for now let’s get to the entry details:
- PRIZE: A green prize pack as described above from Green Nest.
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “GREEN ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …let’s use this a chance to share some eco-friendly tips. Have you started taking any extra steps to be green lately? Or do you have an especially easy tip to share with everyone? Or, as we witnessed in Ithaca, have you seen any especially green locations recently?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, September 22nd at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The Lower 48 United States
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck…
Note: We weren’t paid or perk’d for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to reward our lovely readers! See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Green Nest.
Robin Grey says
GREEN ME!
Jen says
We switched to all cloth bags–no more plastic:)
Keighley@BellaLife says
Green ME!
Although I don’t have a lot of extra money to change my house to being completely Green I have been incorporating little changes to help. I don’t use paper towels to clean with, I only run the dishwasher about twice a week (I hand-wash a lot of our dishes), I use some Green Friendly lightbulbs and Eco friendly cleaners!
One day I hope to have a self-sustaining house but until then my motto is ‘even the small stuff helps!’
Kat says
GREEN ME!
It’s not much, but the hubby and I use a Brita pitcher and bring our own water everywhere instead of buying plastic bottles.
Jenn R. says
GREEN ME!
Cait @ Hernando House says
Green Me!
We’ve pretty much stopped using paper towels altogether and have started using white kitchen towel that can be bleached and washed on sanitary cycle instead.
candace @ thecandace.com says
GREEN ME! I’m loooving those soy candles! We try to do our part and recycle everything we can. We are slowly replacing all of our soaps and cleaners with eco friendly (and people friendly too) ones. I also bike to work in the summer time, shop our local farmer’s market and bring a reusable bag to the grocery store. There is more I can do but every little bit counts!
Thanks for the fun give away!
Charlie says
GREEN ME–We started a compost pile.
Amy says
GREEN ME!
tarynkay says
Green Me!
My favorite tip is to use rags and cloth napkins instead of paper towels. It’s such a small, easy change!
Barbara says
GREEN ME!
Replaced all my light bulbs with CFLs…
Emily says
GREEN ME!
Car pool everywhere!
Katie says
Green Me! I made a commitment a year ago to stop using paper towels. We now use cloth napkins for every meal and snacks and use eco friendly sponges for quick clean-ups of spills and messes around the house.
Danielle Allen says
GREEN ME…PLEASE:)
Abbey says
Green Me!
Just bought a TDI to save on gas! Greatest purchase yet!
margaret says
Since starting our family 3 years ago we’ve decided to go green time and time again – cloth diapers, participating in our local CSA, growing a garden, using cloth bags, more committed effort to compost! So GREEN ME!! This is a great give-away, thanks!
Kathryn J says
Green Me!!
My husband and I are buying our 1st house. It is an energy-star new construction so we’re starting green right from the getgo. I recently also just switched over all of my makeup (ok, most of my makeup) to organic products or ones that use recycled packaging.
Megan H. says
GREEN ME!
Leigh says
GREEN ME!
I recently bought a Prius and that inspired me to go green in other areas of my life. We now recycle just about everything (our garbage output is wonderfully pitiful). I clean my entire house with baking soda, vinegar and Dr. Bronners. We are completely done with plastic grocery bags. And soon our floors (which are in TERRIBLE shape) are going to be replaced with Bamboo. Every month I try to add a new way to green up my life. That way I have a month to make it habit before I add something new.
Laura Theobald says
GREEN ME!
I bought a reusable coffee filter so that I wasn’t constantly throwing away paper filters. I drink a lot of coffee, so that was a quick change and it pays for itself in less than two months (yes…I go through a lot of coffee).
DemMom says
GREEN ME! Nothing too exciting, no plastic bags, recycle everything possible, rinse out and reuse ziploc bags (that’s right!). Dying to compost but my husband is not buying into it… especially since I have no interest in gardening. I just feel like I should give some dirt back to the universe, or at least the planet!
suzanne says
Green me! I’ve been buying the Homestead Creamery milk and returning the glass bottles– yummy milk and no wasted plastic!
Amelia says
GREEN ME!
My favorite green thing to do is to use re-usable grocery bags. Plus, they make it a lot easier to get a week’s worth of groceries up to my third floor apartment!
Amy says
GREEN ME!!!
I don’t have a rain barrel yet, but I leave pitchers outside to fill with water to water plants :)
Kim S says
GREEN ME! I’ve been looking for a new area rug for our bedroom, and one of these eco-friendly ones would be a wonderful addition!
jennifer says
green me!
we recycle pretty much everything we can, we carry our own water bottles and we don’t bring our own bags to the grocery store/target so we don’t get plastic bags. any shopping bags we do get, i keep all year until april and the toy store that i work at part time [my cousin owns it] uses only recycled bags in the month of april in recognition of earth day.
Alicia says
GREEN ME! I try to help out at least a little bit. My fiance and I always bring our own bags to the grocery store, and since our building doesn’t recycle paper I bring old magazines and newspapers into work where they do recycle.
Keely says
GREEN ME!
Jessica says
GREEN ME, please!
We’ve got two young boys (who get messy when they eat :) and instead of using paper towels or baby wipes to clean off their hands/faces after meals, we use washclothes that we can toss into the laundry to clean and reuse.
Katie says
Green Me!
Nikki says
Green Me!!
I just purchased some adorable organic reusable snack and sandwhich baggies off of Etsy! Love it. Was also recently in Ithaca and loved the farmers market!
Cherylj says
Green Me.
One Tip: how to trap yellow jackets w/o insecticides.
Smash up some green grapes and put in the bottom of a plastic wide-mouth bottle (I got mine at Ace Hardware but I’ve seen them in various places). Make sure you have some holes for the yellowjackets to get inside the bottle. Hang from a tree. Works! Hundreds are now in the bottom of those bottles! Our daughter is allergic to bee stings (as in rush to ER-allergic) and we don’t want our grandchild getting stung either. This also helps my hummingbird feeders as the jackets used to swarm around them.
Megan says
GREEN ME!!!
Karrie says
Green Me! I don’t have any tips but it is time for us to adopt a new green practice. We try to pick up a new habit at least once or twice a year.
Gabie says
GREEN ME!!! We’ve recently started using re-usable bags.
Wehaf says
GREEN ME! Tip: you only need about half the amount of laundry detergent the bottle or box says you do.
stacy says
GREEN ME!!
i’ve been trying to change things like cleaning products, etc to be more green.
Ashley Lewis says
GREEN ME!!
I actually went to school at Ithaca College, so I experienced first-hand how eco-friendly Ithaca is. One of the best tips I have is to stop using bottled water and to carry around a reusable bottle. Saves so much plastic!
Meg says
GREEN ME!
I carry my reusable coffee cup and water bottle everyday.
Sue says
Green Me!!!
I’ve recently started getting more serious about recycling – started with newspapers and glass jars (baby food jars). I’ve cut down on using paper towels and am instead using washcloths, etc. I try to do the laundry efficiently – do one extra large load instead of two small/medium loads. I’ve been trying to use cloth bags instead of paper.
Becca says
GREEN ME!!
I’m in the process of moving into a very walkable village. I used to live in Hawaii and that’s the bigges thing I miss about it. Now I’ll be able to walk to the grocery store, restaurants, lake park, and my family’s house! :)
Joanne says
“GREEN ME”
Jen says
GREEN ME!
I use reusable totes when grocery shopping and have started to recycle everything that we can instead of just the typical cans/bottles/newspaper.
Iva says
GREEN ME!
I love those garden in bags
elizabeth says
green me!
–been using reusable cloth bags for groceries, reusable water containers, no more plastic!
Lauren G says
GREEN ME!!
No more plastic bags in our house….only reusable!!
Sarah R. says
GREEN ME! I’ve started recycling at work. I’m also using more hand towels and fewer paper towels at home.
Rae says
Green Me!
We just got rid of all of our plastic tupper ware and switched to glass. No more worries about nasty chemicals in our left overs!
Meredith says
“GREEN ME”
It’s hard to be green in the city but we’ve recently taken old plastic water jugs and turned them into change jars (saving money and re-using!)
Kris says
Green Me!
Stopped using paper towels a couple of months ago!