Get ready for school with our back-to-school green giveaway contest!
Fall is just around the corner, and students everywhere are getting ready to go back to school. To get into the autumnal school spirit and help our readers green their back-to-school regime, we’re running a contest on this site to give away an AWESOME solar powered bag by NoonSolar, stuffed with eco-friendly back-to-school goodies like recycled paper notebooks, erasers and pencils. Our back-to-school goody bag is worth over $500, and it’s a really sweet prize that can be all yours, if you enter our contest. Here’s how:
1. Sign up for the Inhabitat newsletter >
2. Sign up to follow us on Twitter and Facebook
3. Await instructions, which will be emailed out to all of our subscribers.
FIRST PRIZE
The grand prize winner of our competition will win an eco-chic Noon Solar book bag stuffed with an assortment of eco-friendly school supplies including an awesome back-to school bundle from New Leaf Paper in addition to eco-friendly pencils, pens, and notebooks donated by Green Depot. These eco-chic bags are perfect for keeping laptops, cellphones, ipods, and other gadgets charged while on the go, and they’re made from sustainable materials including hand-dyed hemp and vegetable-tanned leathers. We’re offering your choice of a rust hued Augusta Tote (worth $412) or an all black Sawyer bag (worth $497).
RUNNERS UP
Five runner-ups will receive an Inhabitat T-shirt (or tote bag) of your choice. Made from soft organic cotton and printed using eco-friendly water-based inks, they’re just the thing for hitting the books in style.
Inhabitat,
I read about the contest and it really made me imagine about what the best answer could be. I believe that anybody in any place can use this bag efficiently since the sun is a universal resource. On the other hand I strongly believe that we humans tend to create necessities. In past ages who would´ve believed that a bag would be needed to keep track of the hurried life that persons have these days. Anyways, is not my intention to start a debate on how society has evolved but, to express my desire to have one of these solar powered bags.
Nowadays I live in Mexico and I am studying architecture. My projects tend to be very concerned with the environment; therefore solar cells are a constant element in them. Sadly these tend to be very expensive so are hardly used in “real” life. I consider that using alternate ways of energy should be an option to any country disregarding the economical or political factors.
With this said (aside that I live in a dessert and this bag will be very practical) the purpose of having one of these bags would be to encourage people around me to make a difference, to consciously design elements that are “eco-friendly”, to struggle to get their ideas realized, and to believe in the power of perseverance.
I appreciate the time you take to read this,
Nat