The Great Green Giveaway Competition Update #3

Life Goggles’ Great Green Giveaway launched on 31st March and we’re still receiving prizes, now with 86 prizes worth $3,819 / £1,909.

There are lots of ways to enter so give it a go!

1 x Lili webcam worth $40/£20 from United Pepper (International)
Born in Vietnam, designed in Belgium, the Lili webcam is about 74 mm in size with a 1.3 MP camera, flexible legs, and a microphone. Made from sand, cotton, kapok it has a low ecological impact with recycled packaging, and uses renewable materials. Plus it looks funky and is available in a variety of colours.

1 x CynerGreen stainless steel reusable water bottle worth $13 / £6.50 (International)
CynerGreen bottles are 304 Stainless steel, and are reusable, recyclable and a great value - cool shapes too! They provide eco-friendly promotional products and services to the global community, specializing in the meetings and hospitality industry. The company sells its exclusive stainless steel water bottles in an effort to minimize the use and purchase of plastic water bottles which causes an additional 47 million gallons of oil to be produced each year in America alone.

1 x Reborn Glass Night Light from Reborn Glass worth $45 / £22.50 (US only)
The prize is a Reborn Glass Night Light valued at $45. Reborn Glass is a trash to treasure artistic endeavour… One of a kind kiln formed fused recycled bottle glass gifts. They realized that bottles only come in green (trees), brown (earth), blue (water),and clear (air). The relationship between those colors and the earth’s natural resources inspired them to create our line of subtle, artful reminders to conserve. All of their offerings are packaged in hand stamped recycled gift boxes and/or hand stamped cotton draw string bags, and their original keepsake conservation themed poems are enclosed. They will ship via US Priority Mail to the continental US.

And those are in addition to the prizes from our other sponsors: Nigel’s Eco Store, Ecotopia, Bulldog, Stubby Pencil Studio, Klean Kanteen, Male Organics, Fair Trade Sports, Monave, Green People, Ethical Babe, Green-kit, LetsGoGreen, GreenTomato, Radius Toothbrush, HarperCollins, Source Books, Penguin, Green Books, Real Deal Brazil, adila (just & fair), Ganesha, Simple Shoes, ChicoBag, Flip and Tumble, Satvia Bags, autonomie project, SIGG, ECOutlet, The Green Dog Company, http://www.anbPortal.com, Nixie Clothing, Natural Collection, Forest Secrets Skincare, Ingle & Wood, By Nature, Akamuti, CamelBak, Bourgeois Boheme, Green Gift Bagz, Lu Lu’s American Baby, Verdant Computing and howies.

So go and enter the competition!

ChicoBags Reusable Bag Eco Product Review

Another reusable bag is on test, this time a ChicoBag reusable bag.

Coming with an integrated pouch and a handy carabiner for attaching to a keychain, ChicoBags are pretty easy to carry with you and not suddenly realise at the checkout that you’ve left it at home. The size is 18″x18″ (3″x4″ in the pouch), can carry about 20lbs and weighs a small 1.5oz.

They also have their own Bag Monster blog which has amusing videos of a plastic bag monster terrorizing people on the street and being “attacked” by small children.

ChicoBags cost $5 each or you can get 5 for $20.

UK’s First Non-Profit Price Comparison Site Launches

We’ve previously talked about donating to charity whilst you search, however you can now donate to charity whilst you compare prices.

NeverGreedy is a non-profit price comparison site that tries to make it simple for consumers to reduce the environmental impact of their online purchases while saving money. When you buy a product (not just search for one) via the NeverGreedy site, retailers pay NeverGreedy a commission. 80% of this is then donated to projects that promote sustainable environments and livelihoods around the world through technology and education.

Currently they have over 1,000 retailers to choose from (in the UK only at the moment), including Amazon, John Lewis, M&S, British Airways, Dell, Apple, HMV and The Body Shop as well as the main UK Gas, Electric, Telephone and Broadband suppliers.

According to themselves, NeverGreedy is:
- An effective yet simple first step in reducing the impact of online shopping.
- Unique in donating 80% of all revenue generated.
- An effective way for consumers to signal to retailers that the environment is important.
- A new way for ethical and eco friendly retailers to promote themselves and their products.

Examples of how NeverGreedy works.
i) A £829 Apple laptop is purchased via NeverGreedy, earning 2.5% or £20.73 in commission.
ii) A person signs up for 12-month contract with BT Broadband via NeverGreedy, earning £30 in commission.
iii) A £79.95 kids toy from John Lewis is purchased via NeverGreedy, earning 5% or £4 in commission.

The final donations for the above examples would be i) £16.58, ii) £24 & iii) £3.20.

This money would then donated to a project that would use the money to conserve land / plant trees (nearly 1 acre could be purchased for the combined total of the above three examples).

If you’ve tried NeverGreedy then why not let us know what you think?