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CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ 1 Bag at a Time Review & Giveaway!!CLOSED

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Let me intro­duce you all to 1 Bag at a Time!

About Our Company:


“Share the 1 Bag at a Time vision for a future with less waste and cleaner air!
1 Bag at a Time was started in 2005 by Lisa Fos­ter after she dis­cov­ered reusable gro­cery bags on a trip to Aus­tralia.
1 Bag at a Time is com­mit­ted to sup­ply­ing the high­est qual­ity reusable bags avail­able and to pro­mot­ing aware­ness about the full impact of dis­pos­able bags. We believe in the power of con­sumer and cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­ity as a pos­i­tive force in the world.
Our vision is of an Amer­ica where cus­tomers have a choice of attrac­tive and afford­able bags to take with them every­where. Con­tact us today to share in our vision and join the 1 Bag at a Time move­ment.
We are a mem­ber of 1% for the Planet. www.onepercentfortheplanet.org

Our com­mit­ment to cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­ity includes fac­tory mon­i­tor­ing by the non-profit orga­ni­za­tion Verite. www.verite.org.”

For some, it can be hard to imag­ine a world with­out plas­tic – espe­cially plas­tic bags.

The cons of using plas­tic bags are so over­whelm­ing I don’t think I can think of any pros. They are a huge pol­lu­tion prob­lem, their light­weight design allows them to blow away eas­ily. The fact that they are free gives them no value so peo­ple don’t think about how they dis­pose of them. They are made from petro­leum, which could be used for fuel or energy. They don’t biode­grade, instead they break­down and are mis­taken for food and are often eaten by both land and marine ani­mals which is fatal. They are found every­where and many ani­mals become fatally entangled.


They are not biodegrad­able, so they will per­sist pretty much for­ever, wher­ever they end up. Land­fills if we are lucky, but because of their wide­spread use and their abil­ity to fly away in the wind, they can be a big part of the trash along roads and fields. If they get into the water, they look like food and end up clog­ging the stom­achs of a vari­ety of ani­mals, most famously sea tur­tles look­ing for jellyfish.

The recy­cling of plas­tic bags, while prefer­able to other dis­posal meth­ods, is not cost-effective. Plas­tic bags have only existed for 25 years yet the bil­lions that have been pro­duced since then have caused immea­sur­able dam­age to the envi­ron­ment and to wildlife.

Thanks to 1 Bag at a Time, there is no more need for these DREADFUL plas­tic bags!!

Their bags are made from 100% polypropy­lene. PP is recy­clable, non-toxic, allergy-free, and non-reactive to human skin. It is often used for food con­tain­ers, tooth­brushes, and sur­gi­cal fab­rics. The bag is designed to last up to 2 years of weekly usage. You can machine wash our bags in cold water (line dry). A quick wash of the bot­tom stiff­ener is all the clean­ing it usu­ally needs.

You can learn more about this com­pany and code of ethics by vis­it­ing their Cor­po­rate Respon­si­bil­ity page. There is a lot of good infor­ma­tion about the impact of dis­pos­able bags in the Prob­lem sec­tion of their web­site. One the most sur­pris­ing things peo­ple read is about paper bags and other biodegrad­able items, and this link will take you straight to it.

1 Bag at a Time sent me 1 of their newest Yoga Bags, and they are per­fect for tot­ing prac­ti­cally ANYTHING!! I love them so much, and use it all of the time!!

They are extremely sturdy, durable, and come in 2 styl­ish colours — pur­ple and orange!

Brighten your day with our new Yoga Flower Bags. These cheer­ful totes make a great gift for your­self or for a mind­ful friend.  Comes in sets of two, one pur­ple and one orange.

12.5″ W x 14″ H x 8 Gus­set
Mate­r­ial: 90gsm NWPP
Con­trast­ing trim and han­dles
Han­dles sewn to top
Includes plas­tic bot­tom stiff­ener
Multi color imprint on Both Sides

Each quan­tity ordered comes with 2 Yoga flower bags, one of each design.

The very kind and gen­er­ous folks over at 1 Bag at a Time have offered to give one lucky Cool­Canucks reader the chance to win two of these awe­some bags as a set as well!! SWEET prize!

To Enter:

1)Head on over to 1 Bag at a Time and tell me some­thing you have learned about this company!

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EXTRA ENTRIES: (Optional, these are there for you just in case you would like more chances of winning!!)

Fol­low @coolcanucks and @Lisadfoster on Twit­ter! Leave me your twit­ter name!

Tweet this con­test link­ing to @coolcanucks and @Lisadfoster! Leave me the Sta­tus Link to your tweet!

*NOW UNLIMITED TWEETS DAILY!!* and leave a com­ment each time with the Tweet Sta­tus Link*

(Please note, there is a NEW Retweet but­ton added below this post – you may also use that for a quick and easy tweet – be sure to leave me the sta­tus link though!)

Become a Fan of 1 Bag at a Time on Face­book and leave a com­ment on their wall that you came from Cool­Canucks!

NEW!! Become a Fan of Cool­Canucks on our Face­book Page! 2 entries, leave 2 com­ments! Leave me your FB name please!

Become a Registered Cool­Canucks Mem­ber in our forum and leave me your user­name there!

Blog, Stum­ble, Digg or share this give­away on any open pub­lic forum and leave me the link to it! +5, leave 5 comments

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Pur­chase any­thing from 1 Bag at a Time for the dura­tion of the give­away and get 10 extra entries!! Just tell me in a comment!

**Give­away open to both Canada & US and expires on March 13th, 2011**

A HUGE thank you to 1 Bag at a Time for spon­sor­ing us with this GREAT Con­test here at CoolCanucks!!

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CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ OtterBottle.ca Insulated Tote Review & Giveaway!!CLOSED

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

You all pretty much know by now how much sav­ing the Envi­ron­ment means to me, and find­ing eco-friendly com­pa­nies is extremely impor­tant to me!

I was delight­fully over­whelmed when I stum­bled across all of the eco-friendly prod­ucts that OtterBottle.ca carries!!

We are now hear­ing it every where – the rea­sons to go eco-friendly, green prod­ucts, save the envi­ron­ment and recy­cle. But what does it all really mean and why do we need to become more eco friendly?

One obvi­ous rea­son is so that we can save our planet. Just think­ing about the enor­mous stash of plas­tic bot­tles that are thrown away every year which can­not dis­in­te­grate into the land.

Another big thing is Sav­ing ani­mals from extinc­tion! So many of the var­i­ous breeds of ani­mals and insects and all man­ner of liv­ing crea­tures are becom­ing threat­ened because of our habits.

And thirdly, Greener, envi­ron­men­tally friendly prod­ucts are much more kinder to our own health!

With that being said, Otter­Bot­tle is cer­tainly a Cana­dian Green com­pany who con­tributes greatly to the well being of our­selves, the envi­ron­ment, as well as the safety of our animals!

By recy­cling we can save energy, land space, money, and at the same time cre­at­ing new jobs, reduce air and water pol­lu­tion and keep our for­est green. Just a  lit­tle bit of everyone’s help can be a big thing!

By recy­cling, our home’s can be clean and we can reuse the same stuff again, and it can save us a lot of money each year.

By work­ing together, we can save our planet and keep it greener.

About Otter­Bot­tle, a blurb from their website:

“Since a very young age, Shan­non Andrukow has been a health enthu­si­ast and envi­ron­men­tal­ist keen on pre­serv­ing the planet for her fam­ily and future gen­er­a­tions. Advo­cat­ing the impor­tance of small steps to sav­ing the envi­ron­ment to friends and fam­ily (reduc­ing con­sumerism, reusing prod­ucts and avoid­ing per­ish­able ones, dri­ving less, recy­cling, turn­ing out lights, reduc­ing water use, seek­ing renew­able energy sources, encour­ag­ing green prod­ucts for the house­hold, buy­ing local, and so on), Andrukow has always prided her­self on her ded­i­ca­tion to help­ing Mother Earth.

After hav­ing kids, she became even more health-conscious and her inner-environmentalist emerged in full force.  Andrukow had been research­ing Bisphe­nol A (BPA) for a num­ber of years (long before Health Canada’s announce­ment to ban BPA) and after test­ing a cou­ple of “sus­tain­able” water bot­tles Shan­non found that she was not sat­is­fied with the look and per­for­mance of those bot­tles. Always a major pro­po­nent of reusable con­tain­ers, the options for a safe and styl­ish bot­tle at the time were extremely limited.

Shannon’s eco-chic diva sur­faced and she not only wanted to make a dif­fer­ence but she also wanted a bot­tle that spoke to her indi­vid­ual style.  Not to men­tion that she also wanted to pur­chase from a Cana­dian com­pany that sup­ported our envi­ron­ment – some­thing that was harder to do than she thought it would be!  There was no such com­pany out there, so she decided to make it her per­sonal mis­sion to cre­ate one.

She finally decided to cre­ate Otter­Bot­tle Inc. when she explored the idea with her hus­band and good friends.  Her close friend pro­vided her with the final nudge that she needed by encour­ag­ing her to pro­ceed with the thought of start­ing a com­pany that addressed all her concerns.

Andrukow devel­oped Otter­bot­tle Inc.– the name was born out of her desire to find a name that rep­re­sented some­thing pure, healthy and, of course, Cana­dian.  The otter, an ani­mal that lives in the water that we all need to pro­tect, was a per­fect fit.  What bet­ter than to have a com­pany name that is vir­tu­ally impos­si­ble to forget!

For Shan­non, found­ing Otter­Bot­tle Inc. has allowed her to do what she loves most in life; spend her days at home with her kids and make a dif­fer­ence for the earth that she wants to preserve.”

I was sent to review one of their won­der­ful new Insu­lated Tote Bags — no more using aim­less amount of plas­tic bags! They are intended to be reused repeat­edly to replace the use of hun­dreds of HDPE plas­tic bags.

Prac­ti­cal, Col­lapsi­ble, Com­pact and Reusable — Shop­ping and Reusable Insu­lated Tote Bags are styl­ishly durable and come in a vari­ety of colour­ful multi-patterns and designs.

I totally love mine and know that you will too! The very kind and gen­er­ous folks over at Otter­Bot­tle have gra­ciously offered to give 1 very lucky Cool­Canucks reader the chance to win an Insu­lated Tote as well! SWEET!!

Manda­tory Entry – ***This is a MUST!! Those who don’t ful­fill the very first entry will be dis­qual­i­fied! Also, any com­ments such as ‘enter me’ or ‘love to win’ will be deleted.***

1) Head on over to Otter­Bot­tle and check out all of the fab­u­lous prod­ucts! Please let me know what you would love to own from there?

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*****EXTRA ENTRIES: (Optional, these are there for you just in case you would like more chances of win­ning!!)********** Leave com­ments all in one com­ment box, or in sep­a­rate boxes, that is totally up to you! Note: All entries left in one box only counts as one entry so your choice!****************

SUBSCRIBE to Cool­Canucks Blog (right hand-side of blog) via email. (You must ver­ify the sub­scrip­tion in your email too, as I will check! Not ver­i­fied = dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion, sorry!) Leave me which email addy you sub­scribed with in your com­ment please.

Fol­low Cool­Canucks Via Google Friend Con­nect – this is also on the right hand side of my blog.

Fol­low @coolcanucks and @otterbottle on Twit­ter! Leave me your twit­ter name!

Tweet this con­test! Leave me the Sta­tus Link to your tweet! *NOW UNLIMITED TWEETS DAILY!!* and leave a com­ment each time with the Tweet Sta­tus Link*

(Please note, there is a NEW Retweet but­ton added below this post – you may also use that for a quick and easy tweet – be sure to leave me the sta­tus link though!)

Become a fan of Otter­bot­tle Incor­por­tated on Face­book and write on their wall that you came from CoolCanucks!

NEW!! Become a Fan of Cool­Canucks on our Face­book Page! 2 entries, leave 2 com­ments! Leave me your FB name please!

Become a Reg­is­tered Cool­Canucks Mem­ber in our forum and leave me your user­name there!

Blog, Stum­ble, Digg or share this give­away on any open pub­lic forum and leave me the link to it! +5, leave 5 comments

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Pur­chase from Otter­Bot­tle for the dura­tion of the give­away and get 10 extra entries!! Just tell me in a comment!

**Give­away open to Canada ONLY and expires on Jan­u­ary 15th, 2011**

A HUGE thank you to Otter­Bot­tle for spon­sor­ing us with this GREAT Con­test here at CoolCanucks!!

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CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ Envirobottles Review & Giveaway!!CLOSED

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

 

You all pretty much know by now how much sav­ing the Envi­ron­ment means to me, and find­ing eco-friendly com­pa­nies is extremely impor­tant to me!

I was delight­fully over­whelmed when I stum­bled across all of the eco-friendly prod­ucts that Envi­ro­bot­tles carries!!

We are now hear­ing it every where — the rea­sons to go eco-friendly, green prod­ucts, save the envi­ron­ment and recy­cle. But what does it all really mean and why do we need to become more eco friendly?

One obvi­ous rea­son is so that we can save our planet. Just think­ing about the enor­mous stash of plas­tic bot­tles that are thrown away every year which can­not dis­in­te­grate into the land.

Another big thing is Sav­ing ani­mals from extinc­tion! So many of the var­i­ous breeds of ani­mals and insects and all man­ner of liv­ing crea­tures are becom­ing threat­ened because of our habits.

And thirdly, Greener, envi­ron­men­tally friendly prod­ucts are much more kinder to our own health!

With that being said, Envi­ro­bot­tles is cer­tainly a Cana­dian Green com­pany who con­tributes greatly to the well being of our­selves, the envi­ron­ment, as well as the safety of our animals!

By recy­cling we can save energy, land space, money, and at the same time cre­at­ing new jobs, reduce air and water pol­lu­tion and keep our for­est green. Just a  lit­tle bit of everyone’s help can be a big thing!

By recy­cling, our home’s can be clean and we can reuse the same stuff again, and it can save us a lot of money each year.

By work­ing together, we can save our planet and keep it greener.

About Envi­ro­bot­tles, a blurb from their website:

“We, at Envi­ro­bot­tles, are con­cerned about the many issues sur­round­ing our health and safety and the impact plas­tic and other dis­pos­able and toxic items have on our envi­ron­ment. There­fore, it is our man­date to pro­vide the con­sumer with prod­ucts that are afford­able, easy to use, reusable and yet, by their every­day use, will make a dra­matic impact for the bet­ter on our environment.

We have been in busi­ness since 2003.

We are fam­ily owned and oper­ated and have evolved and changed as we have become more edu­cated and aware of the need for the prod­ucts you will find on Envirobottles.ca. We do our very best to pro­vide our cus­tomers with hon­est and reli­able ser­vice, valu­ing every client who puts their trust in us by plac­ing an order whether it be big or small. We appre­ci­ate everyone.

From our stain­less steel bot­tles to glass baby bot­tles, Wrap-N-Mats to soy can­dles our prod­ucts will assist you in becom­ing part of the move­ment towards cre­at­ing a greener earth and a brighter future. We are always look­ing for new and inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts and infor­ma­tion that ful­fill our man­date so check our web­site often to stay current.

In 2009 we became Cana­dian dis­trib­u­tors for 2 eco friendly prod­ucts: Wrap-N-Mats, the resuable sand­wich wrap­per and place­mat in one and Drop-Guard glass baby bot­tles, with a per­ma­nent sil­i­cone sleeve these glass bot­tles become shat­ter­proof.  We look for­ward to pro­vid­ing these fine prod­ucts in the mar­ket­place.“
 

I was sent to review the won­der­ful ‘Wrap-n-mats’ along with a Wrap-n-mat Pouch, a drop guard baby bot­tle, and a few other good­ies that were included in this great GREEN pack­age! No more using aim­less amount of plas­tic bag­gies, as the wrap-n-mat is a fan­tas­tic inven­tion that let’s you wrap your sand­wich over and over again!! The wrap-n-mat pouch is also a neat lit­tle prod­uct as well for car­ry­ing crack­ers, pret­zels, snacks, what­ever! Phe­nom­i­nal! I totally love them!!

 

Is that not the neat­est idea ever?? They come in many colours and fab­u­lous designs!

 

I only wish I’d have found Envi­ro­bot­tles a long time ago!

Envi­ro­bot­tles car­ries an exten­sive line of Eco-friendly prod­ucts that are designed to please! Have you checked out their fan­tas­tic line of Drop Guard baby bot­tles yet? If not, please do so by click­ing here!

“Drop-Guard uti­lizes an inno­v­a­tive design tech­nol­ogy to pro­tect infants and tod­dlers from bro­ken glass.


•Drop-Guard’s glass con­tain­ment sys­tem is the safety par­ents look for with glass baby bot­tles.
•Our sil­i­cone sleeve is a per­ma­nent acces­sory on the baby bot­tle cre­at­ing a maintenance-free alter­na­tive
•Sil­i­cone sleeve con­tains all the GLASS and LIQUID.
•Per­ma­nently adhered directly to the bot­tle, does not wear off.
•Bac­te­ria and germs can­not get between the glass and sil­i­cone.
•Eas­ier to han­dle and less slip­pery to par­ents and babies.
•Microwave and dish­washer safe.
•Envi­ron­men­tally friendly, non-toxic and recy­clable.
•Crys­tal Clear over-mold, can­not tell it’s shat­ter­proof until you touch it.
•nip­ple is sil­i­cone
•EVENFLO BOTTLES”

Envi­ro­bot­tles also car­ries drinkware, pro­mo­tional items such as tote bags, recy­cled pens, golf balls, and much more!!

Also find eco-friendly prod­ucts there such as the can crusher which is one funky lit­tle handy gad­get that is per­fect for schools, restau­rants, etc!

A huge kudos goes out to Envi­ro­bot­tles for their EXCELLENT eco-friendly prod­ucts, I totally rec­om­mend this com­pany to anyone!!

 

Want to pur­chase from Envi­ro­bot­tles now and save money upon order­ing? Sim­ply type in redemp­tion code “Cool­Canucks” to receive 15% off any order!

 

 

Win IT!!!!!

 

Would you like to win a Grande Wrap-n-Mat along with a Wrap-n-Mat pouch? Well now you can!! The very kind and gen­er­ous folks from Envi­ro­bot­tles wants to give one lucky Cool­Canucks reader the chance to do just that!! Impres­sive in the least, I know that these rock, and you will too!!

 

To Enter:

*****Let me explain on how to enter here as alot of peo­ple are not fol­low­ing the rules, and their entries are sim­ply being deleted! I am sorry to say this but, if you can­not fol­low my rules here, then your com­ments are sim­ply deleted. It’s not hard to do these 3 easy things!!*****

 

1)  Head on over to Envi­ro­bot­tles and tell me why this com­pany is so impor­tant to you and your family!

 

2) You MUST ALSO SUBSCRIBE to Cool­Canucks Blog (right hand-side) via email! (You must ver­ify the sub­scrip­tion in your email too, as I will check! Not ver­i­fied = dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion, sorry!) Leave me which email addy you sub­scribed with in your com­ment and SAY I SUBSCRIBED VIA EMAIL!

 

 
3) And thirdly for any entries to count, fol­low Cool­Canucks Via Google Friend Con­nect!! TELL ME THAT YOU FOLLOW COOLCANUCKS VIA GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT IN A COMMENT! SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT ALOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW OR READ RULES AND I HAVE TO GET THEIR ATTENTION SOMEHOW!!!!!

 

******************If you don’t do the top 3, then your com­ments will be DELETED, plain and simple************************************

 
————->The Above is MANDATORY before any extra entries count. <—————

 

EXTRA ENTRIES: (Optional, these are there for you just in case you would like more chances of winning!!)

 

Fol­low @coolcanucks and @EnviroBottles on Twit­ter! Leave me your twit­ter name!

 

Tweet this con­test link­ing to @coolcanucks  and @EnviroBottles! Leave me the Sta­tus Link to your tweet! **NOW UNLIMITED TWEETS DAILY!!* and leave a com­ment each time with the Tweet Sta­tus Link**(Please note, there is a NEW Retweet but­ton added below this post – you may also use that for a quick and easy tweet – be sure to leave me the sta­tus link though!)

 

Become a Reg­is­tered Cool­Canucks Mem­ber in our forum and leave me your user­name there!

 

Blog, Stum­ble, Digg or share this give­away on any open pub­lic forum and leave me the link to it! +5, leave 5 comments

 

Grab our Cool­Canucks but­ton located to the right of the blog. +5, leave 5 comments

 
Sub­scribe to Cool­Canucks RSS Feed! + 2 leave 2 comments

 
Refer a friend to Cool­Canucks Forum – do not sign your­self up and cheat, I can check IP’s! Tell me who the refer­ral is, and earn 10 extra entries at once!

 
Pur­chase any­thing from Envi­ro­bot­tles for the dura­tion of the give­away and get 10 extra entries!! Just tell me in a comment!

 

**Give­away open to both Canada & US and expires on May 1st, 2010**

 

A HUGE thank you to Envi­ro­bot­tles for spon­sor­ing us with this GREAT Con­test here at CoolCanucks!!

 

Con­grats to #3

 

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    March 12th, 2010 at 6:37 am 

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