Want to try out Eco-Chic Entertaining for Earth Day?  Try out one of the hottest new eco-chic entertaining solutions- www.cocodot.com – the latest in chic, well designed and easy to send online invitations and greetings.  A-list entertainers such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Brooke Shields, Courteney Cox, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have all joined the cocodot craze and have made their parties “greener” by sending a cocodot invitation for their most recent soirees.

Cocodot allows you to save time, money and energy without comprising style and sophistication. With a gallery of over 6,000 exclusive images shot by famed fashion and lifestyle photographer Amy Neunsinger (she shoots the Target campaigns!) cocodot’s invites will inspire you to host your next dinner party.  Unlike other online invitation sites, cocodot is ad free and offers an advanced guest management and communication platform, event home pages and easy tools for linking invites and greetings to social networks.

While cocodot is subscription based ($19 for one party, $99 for an entire year’s worth of invites and greetings), they have invited Eco-Office Gals readers to create a COMPLIMENTARY cocodot invitation in honor of Earth Day by entering cocoEarth2010 at checkout, now through May 15th for a free party invite, which can be created, personalized and delivered to an unlimited amount of guests within minutes.

Some of the most iconic entertainers are going green with cocodot.com – take a look at what they’re saying:

“Paperless invitations are all the rage and Cocodot takes it to another level. With tons of designs to choose from, Cocodot’s invitations and greeting cards are easy to send and excellent for the environment.”
Gwyneth Paltrow

“Online invitations are the new eco-chic way to entertain and Cocodot.com is the ultimate destination for style and sophistication.”
Colin Cowie

“I love cocodot. The cards and invitations are easy to make, unique and beautiful. With so many different designs and options, I have an excuse to use cocodot for anything!”
Giada De Laurentiis

“Cocodot is the Bergdorf Goodman of e-vites.”
Robert Verdi

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Green Gem of the Week: Cocodot

We all know Earth Day is just around the corner so Coupon Craze and CarbonFund.org are teaming up to give three of our readers the chance to “Go Green for Free” this Earth Day. Both Coupon Craze and CarbonFund.org provide simple and affordable ways for people to go green. Almost exactly a year ago, online coupon code site Coupon Craze launched a Green Coupon Category to help shoppers find the best online coupons for environmentally friendly products and retailers. CarbonFund.org is a non-profit carbon reduction and climate solutions organization making it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact.

In honor of Earth Day, these companies will be handing out two $50 CarbonFund.org certificates and one $100 gift certificate to the winners choice of  Origins or Patagonia. To enter, all you have to do is post a comment telling us what your favorite cost-effective green living tip is. To get your Earth Day juices flowing and help put these prizes into perspective, here’s some carbon offset information and eco-friendly budget shopping tips.

CarbonFund.org is leading the fight against global warming by helping people neutralize their carbon footprint.  You can purchase an offset that represents a reduction in carbon dioxide (CO₂) somewhere else, like a renewable energy or reforestation project, to balance out the emissions you cannot reduce. For example, $50 of CarbonFund.org credit is equivalent to 5 metric tons of CO₂ or:

• More than 5 roundtrips from Los Angeles to New York
• Approximately the emissions an average American passenger vehicle emits in a year
• Over half the emissions from the average American home’s electricity use
• The amount of carbon sequestered by an acre of pine forests in a year
• The amount of carbon produced by 208 propane cylinders for home barbecues

To help promote green, organic and eco-friendly retailers and products, Coupon Craze has a green coupon category where shoppers can find codes and deals from over 100 retailers such as TOMS Shoes, Origins, Patagonia and ZipCar. It’s the perfect starting place for people who are looking to pickup some eco-friendly shopping habits. Check out some tips that will help you go green on a budget:

• Shop on Earth Day, 4/22: April, and of course Earth Day itself, draws the most attention to eco-friendly, green and organic products. Retailers take advantage of this by offering huge savings throughout the month and specifically on April 22^nd to generate awareness. Make sure to check out Coupon Craze’s Green and Eco-Friendly category on Earth Day –  there are over 100 offers planned to go live exclusively on that day.
• There’s Less Fine Print: Green retailers are still relatively new to the coupon industry, so offers tend to have less fine print than coupons in other categories. For example, many of these coupons don’t have a minimum spending requirement, which means that shoppers can save regardless if they spend $20 or $500.
• What to do the rest of the year: There are some retailers such as TOMS and Gaiam that offer coupons year round; however, the savings in the Green Category tend to peak in the spring and the fall.

So for the change to do your part this Earth Day without breaking the bank, enter the Go Green for Free giveaway!

Giveaway Info:

• To enter, comment on this post and tell us your favorite cost-effective green living tip, and/or:
• Follow Coupon Craze, CarbonFund.org, and Eco-Office Gals then comment with you Twitter name that you did.
• RT this giveaway on Twitter and comment below with the status link.
• The contest runs from now up until April 22nd at 12 noon EST and the three winners will be announced on 4/23.
• Two winners will be chosen at random and awarded a $50 CarbonFund.org donation in their name. One grand prize winner will be chosen at random and awarded a $100 gift certificate to their choice of Origins, Patagonia retailers from the  Coupon Craze Green and Eco-Friendly Coupon Category.
• The three winners will receive their prizes no later than Tuesday, 4/27 at 5:00 p.m. EST.

Don’t forget to get your entry in on the Eco-Office Gals Green My World Giveaway, too!

And here are the random picked winners!

Here are your random numbers:

123 – marc-andre taillefer $50 CarbonFund.org donation in their name
30 – Virtual Receptionist $50 CarbonFund.org donation in their name
85 – Theresa D $100 gift certificate to their choice of Origins or Patagonia

Timestamp: 2010-04-23 13:00:37 UTC

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Go Green For Free on Earth Day! {Giveaway}

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bloomingdale’s. All opinions are 100% mine.

With Earth Month still going strong here is a fun activity to celebrate the Earth.  Put your fun creative skills to the test and design a Tote-ally Green Tote for Bloomingdale’s!

Check out the Tote-ally Green design contest to design your own Tote contest, from Bloomingdales and famed handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff.  What’s your style? Modern? Whimsical? Simple? Splashy? Anything goes, just make it yours! Then share it with everyone you know and get them to vote for you, who knows… you may even get some green to go with your green bag design!

Now that’s my design to the right.  Maybe a little too simple, but that’s ok I can go make another one, and another….

Or if you like my simple design, feel free to vote for it, I’d be honored!

A chic reusable tote is the perfect accessory for any activity! Grocery shopping, picnic, day of errands, the beach, etc. Every little bit can help us conserve and look chic doing it! Be sure to leave a link to your design in the comments below so we can check it out and vote for our favorite, too!

CONTEST INFO:
- Contest runs from April 7- April 25, 2010

- One winner will be chosen everyday, based on Bloomingdales favorite submissions, and will receive a $100 Gift Card

- Submissions will be whittled down to 50 favorites based on user votes

- Grand prize winner who will receive a $2,000 shopping spree and the winning design will be sold exclusively at bloomingdales.com.

- Entrant with the most votes can also win $1,000 shopping spree

So give it a go readers! Design an adorable tote that you would love to show off, and have the whole world show off too! Happy creating!

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Tote-ally Green Tote Contest for Earth Day

This is Eco-Office Gals 2nd Earth Day in the blogosphere and I’m very pleased to be here! In case you just recently found EOG, I thought I would dig up last years Earth Day Articles, so we can have some insight on what Earth Day meant to EOG last year.  Read, Enjoy, Share… and don’t forget to enter this year’s Green My World Giveaway!

• History of Earth Day – The When, Why and Where of Earth Day’s Past!
• 10 Things You Can Do In The Office for Earth Day – That speaks for itself, no?
• Coca Cola Promotes Use of Plastics for Earth Day? – Yep, I am an admitted Diet Coke fan, but this was a BIG Ooooops that I brought some attention to last year. On the cusp of Earth Month The Good Human points out this years Coca Cola’s Greenwash, too! We’ll keep an eye out for more Green wash blunders used to promote Earth Day this year! BE WARNED!
• Earth Day Is Over… Now What? - What to do? What to do?

I look forward to another great Earth Month this year as well!

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Earth Day Redux

Let’s get this party started!

Earth Day (Month) is approaching and Eco-Office Gals wants to get as many people as possible on board to grow a little greener.   If you’ve been wanting to, trying to, thinking about growing a little greener there’s no better time to do it then now! We don’t want to make you go it alone either. We have once again reached out to our great green cyberspace friends to bring you green products to Green Your World!

Last year Eco-Office Gals Green My World Giveaway was a HUGE hit and we will give it a go again!!

Today, we’ll just get things started.  We’ll give you a chance to check out a few of the initial sponsors and a peek at the prizes coming in, look around their sites and get your creative green juices flowing.  So, lets get started!

Welcome all our Earth Day Giveaway Sponsors for 2010 and their generous donations to Green Your World (I will be adding to the list throughout the coming weeks!):

• EcoStore USA – Gift basket with 10 products
• Affordable Mineral Make Up – $25 Gift Certificate
• Naked Binder – Set of 9 project binders (one of all colors)
• Ely Organics – $25 eGift Certificate
• BuyGreen.com – $50 Gift Certificate
• Watercheck.biz – Niagara Conservation XSWEK07 Indoor Water Conservation EcoKit
• Kir DeVries – $25 Gift Certificate
• Ecominders – Ecominders Gift Bag – A reusable tote with packages of all 3 Ecominders product lines – Home, Office and Kids & Schools, along with organic cotton adult & children’s Ecominders t-shirts
• Barefoot Books – One World, One Planet Gift Collection
• weeBgreen – 1 kidzsack
• Project GLO – very adorably wrap 3 sets of 5 pens made from biodegradable cardboard and corn plastic!
• Cactus & Ivy – Body Souffle
• Sarva Soap – $25 gift certificate plus 15% coupon off first purchase
• Intention Kits – 1 Intention Kit made on Recycled Paper
• Natural Luxe – $25 eGift Certificate
• HappyFamily Organics – 2 free trials for each product line, 2 free trails for YB Meals, FAQ Guide on organics, HappyFamily Nutrition Guide, HappyFamily Recipes, HappyBaby’s new book “Our Organic guide to the first 24 months

This list is growing by the day sooo…  here’s the deal, one person will win it ALL! Put your green recycled thinking caps on since  you will need to do a little work! You need to green up your act!  Absolutely, no “Thanks for the great giveaway” comments, they WILL be deleted.  DO NOT copy and paste someone’s comment as your own, be original.  You can enter as many times as you’d like as long as you follow one of the options below. For shipping purposes – US residents only, please.  Contest will end April 22nd Earth Day, at 12 noon (EST). One winner will be picked to win the whole thing! This will not be a random drawing, rather the person that really seems to put some effort towards making a difference in their life will be given the chance to make their changes with there great products!

• Pick a green step that will help the environment. Something new, that you are not already doing. Leave a comment about it, or if you post about it on your own blog, provide a link in your comment so we can check it out!
• Leave a comment about any progress and achievements in your green goals, too.  Let us know how it’s going!
• Leave a unique tip to be green, chemical free, etc
• Visit the sponsors and let us know how one of their products could help your green up your act.  Leave a link to the product so we can all check it out.
• Send out a tweet about the giveaway & consider using the #earthtweet hashtag – be sure to include a link to it.
• Use other Social Networking avenues to get the word out about the giveaway and let us know which ones you did.
• Add the giveaway button to your sidebar and let us know you did. Here’s the code:

<a href=”http://eco-officegals.com/2010/02/14/2nd-annual-green-my-world-earth-day-giveaway-2010/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://eco-officegals.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/earthday.png” border=”0″ alt=”Green My World”></a>

• Think a product is so awesome on one of our sponsors sites, you can’t wait to win before you buy? Leave 5 separate entries telling us what you bought from who — we will confirm.

Be sure to sign up for Eco-Office Gals RSS by feed or email.  I’ll be continuing to bring you information, tips and events from our sponsors and may just throw in a few extra ways to enter as we go along!

Sooooo…. although this years giveaway received 1229 visit I only recieved 163 entries into the giveaway. You would think this would make picking a winner easier right? NO! There were some wonderful comments left by many of you on how you are going green and how you hope to make a lighter impact on the earth in the future. Many of you also did a wonderful job tweeting and sharing to spread the word about this giveaway and all of it’s great sponsors. So, it wasn’t easy to hand pick a winner at all! However as I continued to read through the comments one person started to shine through with their great efforts already in place, their acknowledged need for improvement, helpful tips, genuine thoughts and aspirations for their continued green efforts in the future.  So, the winner has been picked!

Ginny – Congrats we are going to Green your world!! Check out her comments:

• So, I am sure this is just the start of my greening and trying to do extra things and “think out of the box”, but I have been very conscious of the chemicals in my products for awhile, but it sometimes seems really hard to really keep on top of it. So, I am going to be creating some of my own skin care products. I bought a book with some recipes and I am buying bottles and organic essential oils so that they are really pure. The bottles are glass so that there is no BPA in them for me or my family. For me going green and being healthy are one and the same. I also have subscriptions to some magazines. I usually recycle them as soon as I am done, but I have some friends who are interested in reading, so we are going to trade between the three of us, all I ask is that they give them back if they have no intention of recycling or that they recycle them when they are done. I am going to start paying more attention to packaging as well. I have noticed that there are some products which cannot be recycled in my area, so I am going to try to make an effort to pay attention to the plastic that is in the packaging, etc. so that it doesn’t go in the trash, it can be recycled.
• So, in addition to what I previously posted I am going to buy a Barnes and Noble Nook…. I am an avid reader and I can save a lot of trees if I go that route. I am also going to take some of my old books that I don’t want to the local thrift store. I need to buy some new clothes because I lost some weight too… I still have more to lose so I don’t want to revamp my whole wardrobe so I will buy some clothes at a consignment shop to get me through. There are new clothes there sometimes and some really good stuff for way cheaper than buying it brand new! And when I lose the weight I want to buy clothes that are organic and made of natural fabrics. This might sound kind of gross too… but I know they make things like the Diva Cup and reusable ladies products, so I have been looking into those options. I am counting the days to the farmer’s market as well so I can buy local, fresh produce. Showers are a hard one for me… I love my showers but I really need to conserve water, so I am trying to keep them to under 7 minutes… I will try to get down to 5 minutes… baby steps right?
• Green Tip: Avoid products with Parabens in them! They are bad for you and your family and they wash down the drain when you use them in the bath!
• Green Tip: Don’t throw medicines/prescriptions in the toilet or down the sink, they contaminate the water supply. There is more information on what to do at fda.gov
• I am looking at getting a composter and rain barrels this year. I am seriously considering taking the local train to work this year, even though it is a 2 mile walk from the station to work, that will be fine. My husband and I have reduced our trash so much that we only have to put the trash bins out every 4-5 weeks, all the rest goes to recycle. I have also noticed that I have been looking more closely to the packaging of food products that we buy… I am trying specifically to look for plastics that can be recycled. I used to buy a handful of organic products when I would shop, now I try to buy as much organic as I can. My mindset is changing I noted the other day because instead of thinking of how much it costs right now, I am thinking of the long term effect. I have also sworn off of aerosols…. even though I never liked the hairsprays that come in the spritzy type bottles, I will use them for the greater good (old habits are hard to break I guess). I am also not using the disposable break items at work anymore. I bought some bamboo utensils to use and a ceramic mug and we bought some glass containers to put our food in that needs to be heated so that we are not exposed to the chemicals in the plastic containers. Whew…. that was quite the novella.
• Green Tip: Eat locally grown foods and eat what is in season! It will reduce your carbon footprint.
• Oh! I forgot! I am really trying to eat more like a vegetarian. I am having mixed success so far, but I am working on eating lower on the food chain overall!
• I will be making bar soap for my hubby and I as well here in a couple of weeks.
• Well…. I watched the movie Food Inc. and man does that make me angry! I think that has been the best diet for me thus far! I am not going to support that kind of thing, that is horrible and we are slowly killing everyone! I subscribed to E magazine (the environmental magazine) and man does that have some good information. I sent in some information to volunteer for environmental data recovery to help for the future. Oh, and I finally hit my goal with the 7 minute shower! Now to move on to 5 minutes! I am really loving this green movement and I am finally fully immersed I think, after going into it gradually for the last couple of years I am at the point where it just makes me angry that we are subjected to the chemicals and such that we are subjected to and it washes into our water and pollutes and ugh!!! So mad…. but happy to that I feel I can make a difference.
• Oh, and my hubby and I are looking into getting solar panels… I don’t know if we can afford it yet, but it is definitely on our list of improvements to make along with replacing the old windows with more efficient ones.

I hope you will all take a bit to read all of the great comments shared by everyone and get inspired to make everyday Earth Day! Thank you all for your efforts!  Congrats again Ginny!

And we have heard back from Ginny:

OMG Jennifer!!!  I am so happy!  This has really made my week you are so awesome! Wow, you really made my day with this one, I am so excited to try everything!!!

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2nd Annual Green My World Earth Day Giveaway 2010!

Well, Earth Day ended up being interesting in many unexpected ways. You may have seen on Twitter, I was forced into energy conservation when our new puppy decided to yank the charger out of the laptop and it, unknowingly, landed in the dogs water bowl! So, no computer for the first half of the day and I hated missing out on all of the Earth Day fun!!  But the party was going strong without me on the Giveaway with my stats blowing away anything I had seen since I launched by thousands! YES!

After reading thru over 500 entries I picked Joanna Smith:

It was a tough one to choose from, but there was one person that really came out shining green.  EVERYDAY she gave me readers in depth in site on the sponsoring companies, natural  home cleaner recipes, steps she has implemented, steps she wants to integrate into her green living routine, she faithfully RT’d the giveaway…. all in all I noticed her really stepping up to the challenge for this giveaway over the entire time it ran.

Her awesome email response further confirmed she was the perfect recipient of this prize:

Wow, what a way to make my day today!  Yay!  You can imagine how very honored and thrilled I am!  I truly appreciate what you wrote about choosing me as the winner, it made me feel so special, thank you so
much!

I looked forward to visiting your site everyday to enter because it motivated me to research and learn so much about the importance and significance of “greening up my fact” for the health and safety of my family as well as the earth and the environment around us.  Going through that exercise everyday to really think about what I personally can do to make a difference is now a routine I want to continue to do everyday, thanks to you and Eco-Office Girls, the journey will continue!

I want to thank you so much for truly making my world a greener world, and for allowing me to be a part of your online community.  Together we all can make a difference, green up our act, and live much healthier lives as a result of it!

Of course we cannot wrap up the giveaway with out sending out a HUGE THANK YOU to all of the Green My World Sponsors and their awesome green contributions!

EcoStore USA – $25 Gift Certificate
Affordable Mineral Make Up – $25 Gift Certificate
Go Green Home MakeOver – Stainless Steel Water Bottle
Coco-Zen – Fair Trade Chocolate Lips To-Go
Naked Binder – Project Binder Set
Cactus and Ivy – You’re the Balm Gift Set
Sarva Soap – Natural Artisan Soap 8 mini’s of choice
Nurture My Body – $35 Gift Certificate
The Green Path Co. – Men’s & Ladies Organic Cotton T-shirt set (choice of size and artwork)
GreenOfficeStore -  Staple-free Stapler,  Recycled Paper Pencils & Recycle Bin
Mama Goes Green – Waste Free Lunch Kit; Wrap N Mat & Mini RuMe Bag
Tilvee – $25 Gift Certificate
Teatulia – Fair Trade Organic Tea Sampler Set
Glass Dharma – $30 in store coupon
WeeBeGreen – $15 Gift Certificate
SafeMama – Bubble and Bee Lip balm and an 8oz Body Butta
Let’s Be Green Together – 4oz Bag of Soap Nuts

Around the blogshphere, the Giveaway wasn’t the only topic making a buzz.  Eco-Office Gals was honored to be mentioned on TreeHugger: Top Tweets of the Week on Earth Day 2009.  Additionally, in my efforts to bring awareness of Coca-Cola promoting the use of plastic for Earth Day it brought about serveral re-tweets, a wonderful spotlight on The Good Human, and  News Cloud picked it up as well.  Unfortunatly, not only did Coca-Cola feel no need to make mention of the issue on Twitter, FaceBook, their blog or their rewards site, but an additional article was released in the newswire What is the Real Thing, Really?: Coke’s Earth Day PR Thinly Veils Poor Track Record.

So, now what? At the house we are still composting away, waiting for the grass to grow and we have an area ready to start planting some veggies!  Flaunt It! Monday will pick back up next month and more tips, tricks and services from Eco-Office Gals as always!  Don’t make Earth Day a once a year event!

Grow Green!

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Earth Day is over… Now what?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 20, 2009

Grist’s “Screw Earth Day!” Campaign Stirs Debate Among Environmental Community

Grist Urges Public to Make Every Day Earth Day with Free Download of ‘Wake Up and Smell the Planet’ and Sweepstakes for Free Trip to Bonnaroo Music Festival

SEATTLE, WA — Grist’s irreverent Screw Earth Day! campaign has inspired a fresh look at the annual Earth Day celebration as its 39th anniversary approaches. The promotion has sparked lively debate on numerous blogs and websites, stirring up feelings throughout the environmental movement.

Grist, the nation’s leading online source for environmental news and information, launched the Screw Earth Day! campaign on April 9 to underscore the importance that one day of action each year is not sufficient to address the pressing needs threatening our warming globe.

“In many cases, Earth Day has been reduced to a sort of planetary sound bite,” said Chip Giller, founder and CEO of Grist. “Well, we think that bites. Our campaign is sending the message that it’s time to wake up and smell the planet: the environmental challenges of today require us to treat every day as an Earth day. One day is for amateurs.”

Grist has published a special editorial series, “Does Earth Day Really Matter?”, that explores the green movement’s conflicted feelings over Earth Day. And Grist has rolled out — as a special treat — a new series of Ask Umbra videos on Grist.org that are sure to make Earth Day blush.

Grist is encouraging new users to sign up for daily and weekly news updates by providing two compelling incentives: a free download of its popular, award-winning book Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day; and a free trip for two (including round-trip airfare, full festival passes and carbon offsets) to Bonnaroo, the popular music and arts festival that has a long-standing commitment to sustainability.

To download a free copy of Wake Up and Smell the Planet and enter the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival sweepstakes, register at http://www.grist.org/screwearthday or www.screwearthday.com.

About Grist
With a fresh spin on environmental news and views, Grist informs, inspires, and links America’s next generation of green citizens. Founded in April 1999, Grist has developed the most recognizable voice in environmental journalism: funny, opinionated, and intelligent. Grist offers in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinions, and practical advice — all tailored to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its users to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions.

Each month, Grist reaches more than 800,000 unique individuals through its website and e-mails, and it has enjoyed particular success among readers in their 20s and 30s. Through partnerships with major media outlets such as MSN, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and Yahoo!, Grist is reaching an even broader audience that extends into the millions. Grist has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, and dozens of other major media outlets worldwide, and was recently ranked as a top green website by both Time and The London Guardian.

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Grist: A Few “choice” thoughts on Earth Day.

I love my Diet Coke, I do. I grew up drinking Coke, I hated “New” Coke, I supplemented my allowance growing up by turning in Coke cans and bottles for a refund.  I have the cutest Christmas ornament a glass coke bottle with real coke in it that I bought 10 years ago.  My mention of my soda of choice even won a solar radio last week:

Time for a TGIF cocktail-hour #earthtweet giveaway. The following just fits the occasion too perfectly…4/10 #earthtweet winner: RT @EcoOfficeGals sipping my Captain & Diet with my glass straw from @glassdharma dm us with an address; we’ll send you a solar radio from @gaiam! YEAH!!

But then as I went through my email yesterday morning, I saw one from My Coke Rewards that really disappointed me.  For anyone that doesn’t know My Coke Rewards are points you can collect from entering codes on the inside of the bottle caps and cases of Coca Cola Products.

So, let me just share this email with you first:

Earth Day is a great time to celebrate the many wonders of the world—like cool, crisp refreshing water. In honor of Mother Nature, you can earn Double Points with DASANI.

April 20th through the 30th, enjoy any 12-pack of DASANI*—then enter your codes to boost your balance with Double Points—it’s a great way to enjoy Earth Day.

Basically, they are encouraging people to buy plastic bottle for Earth Day, and get rewarded for it! PLASTIC BOTTLES!!

From Earth 911:

So, I ask my readers for support. Coca Cola is HUGE, and could really do some GOOD for Earth Day but this is NOT the way to do it!  I am against Coca Cola rewarding people for using plastic bottles in honor of Earth Day, are you?
If so, PLEASE retweet this post, email it, stumble it, blog it, digg it just get it out there in anyway you can! Thank you in advance for your support.

All the best!

BTW: Only a few more days to enter the Green My World Giveaway, OVER $400 in Green Products from sponsors that REALLY want you to celebrate Earth Day the RIGHT way! Be sure to get your entries in!!

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Coca Cola Promotes Use of Plastic for Earth Day?

There are many awesome giveaways going on this month for Earth Day.  While, Eco-Office Gals will promote ours, we can’t be running around the blogoshpere entering other giveaways and not let our readers in on the opportunity! So, today will just be a round up of giveaways found in honor of EarthDay.  How about an extra entry for Green My World, too? Find a giveaway I missed and enter to win, come back to Green My World and let our readers know about it with a link!

• Green and Clean Mom – She has a few going on go check them out!
• Alternative Consumer – Black & Decker Electric Mower & Leaf Blower
• Teensy Green – Disney Earth Giveaway
• EarthTweet – Several, I already won a solar powered radio! woohoo!
• Cosa Verde – Wow! Way to much to even start, just go on over!
• The Green Parent -  Disneynature’s Earth Grab Bag
• Mama Goes Green – RuMe Bags Giveaway

Looks like a short list right now… help me out by finding more and linking to them in your comment on Green My World for an extra entry!

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Earth Day Giveaway Round Up

So, you’ve had a few days to check out all of the awesome giveaways and sponsors available and I hope you are loving all the prizes as much as I am! There is more to these sponsors then just their products and sponsorships. They’re also doing their own projects or sharing tips to contribute to towards Earth Day and the environment as a whole.

Tara Burner:

Tara Burner of Affordable Mineral Make Up and Go Green Home Makeover, offers a Green Tip everyday to help you grow in your green lifestyle at Green Tip of the Day.

EcoStore USA:

The founder of their company Ecostore New Zealand, Malcolm Rands, is known throughout New Zealand, Australia and Britain as Ecoman! Because he is a true environmentalist who stumbled upon a way of keeping not   only the planet healthier for our families and children as well.Malcolm is here with Ecostore USA for the month of April not only promoting their launch at the MEIJER grocery store chain but Earth Month.  For the next three weeks they have Malcolm on a tour of all five of the states that MEIJER is located in on the ASK ECOMAN tour.

GlassDharma:

GlassDharma is putting their straws where your mouth is. As a small business dedicated to making a difference (without a massive photography, marketing and advertising budget), creativity and generosity were needed. In honor of Earth Month, GlassDharma is giving away 500 straws to those who ask because they are so confident that you will love their line of straws, and help to make GlassDharma a trend that is fabulously functional. GlassDharma is certain that once people use them, they will spread the word…and their straws.

WeeBgreen:

WeeBgreen is going to posting a couple things in recognition of Earth Day this month.

1. They will be attending a “Kids Grow Expo” at the local university campus on April 24th

2. They are also going to start a “vegetable garden” series on weeBgreen.blogspot.com chronicling our garden plans and planting schedule

3. One other thing they’re going to slowly do over time is recycle/upcycle old clothing into new apparel and plush toys (old sweaters become soft play blocks with appliqués, etc).

The Green Path Company:

Green Tip of the Month

This month’s tip has to do with recycling plastic bottles and jugs.  If you are lucky enough to have a recycling program in your city then you probably have a separate recycle trash bin that you toss all your recyclable trash into, including plastic bottles.  Most of us, including me, thought that tossing plastic bottles into the recycle bin insured that these items would be recycled.  Not so!  If the bottles have liquid in them there is a chance they will be removed from the recycling process either during an automated phase or during the manual sorting phase. So the tip this month is to make sure ALL of your plastic bottles and jugs are empty before putting them out to be recycled.  Even if they look empty there can still be residual liquid in them, so remove the caps before tossing them out, this will help insure ALL of the liquid has evaporated before they reach the recycling center and ALL your plastic is recycled.

For additional entries to the Green My World Giveaway: Visit any of the sponsors in the giveaway and let readers know about Earth Day projects, tips or giveaways they are doing. You can build off of one of these tips by getting details from their sites or find your own. Do not simply copy one of above, the entry will be deleted!

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All the best!

Jen

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