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With so many women owning gadgets these days (I can’t think of even one of my girlfriends who doesn’t own any), it’s strange to think that some people think of the consumer electronics world as a boys’ club. Nowadays, women are just as busy (if not more so) than men, acting as employees, bosses, moms, entrepreneurs, and event planners, and luckily there is a similarly hard-working assortment of green gadgets on the market to keep us organized, charged up and on the go. From elegant solar-powered timepieces to chic sun powered purses, check out our 5 green gadget picks for women on the go.

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Last chance to win an awesome solar back-to-school bundle!

Heads up students – school starts this month, and we’ve got just the thing to brighten up those dreary fall days – a stunning solar-powered Sakku bag stuffed full of school supplies. But you’ll have to act fast – today is the last day to enter our Back to School Prize Package Giveaway (worth over $500)! This amazing bundle includes 7 awesome 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem, a 100% recycled binder, tabs and binder pouch from Naked Binder, and to top it all off, an amazing solar-powered bag by Sakku (worth $450) that will make you the most popular kid in class.

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Last chance to win a solar back-to-school bundle worth $500!

Heading back to school can be a total drag — so to help you get geared up for your scholarly pursuits, we’re giving away an awesome back-to-school bundle this week to one lucky reader! Our grand prize is an awesome Sakuu solar-powered bag (worth $450) made from recycled sails stocked full of 7 stylish 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem and a 100% recycled binder and binder pouch from Naked Binder! So if you haven’t already entered our latest back to school giveaway, the time to act is now — this contest closes on Wednesday!

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Win an awesome solar back-to-school bundle worth over $500!

If you spend hours in class, chances are your gadgets are running low on battery power by the end of the day. Well, if you want to keep your iPod, phone, camera or pretty much any small electronic charged and ready to go – so you can use it after school too – enter to win our fabulous Back-to-School Prize Package featuring this amazingly handy solar-powered bag by Sakku (worth $450) that can juice up your electronics with solar power on the go. And there’s more – the winner of this prize will also receive 7 awesome 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem and a 100% recycled binder, tabs and binder pouch from Naked Binder, so what are you waiting for? Enter today!

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GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH AN AMAZING NEW SOLAR BAG!

If you just started school this past week, but found yourself utterly unprepared, don’t fret over that old, empty frayed backpack because we’ve got a giveaway going on that’s sure to  put a smile on your face! In celebration of education, this week we’re giving away a grand green back-to-school bundle to one lucky reader! Featuring a sweet new Sakku solar powered bag made from recycled sails (worth $450), we’ve packed this baby full of eco-friendly school supplies, including 7 awesome 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem, a 100% recycled binder, tabs and binder pouch from Naked Binder! And this prize package isn’t the only thing we’ve got in the works, 5 other lucky winners will also have the chance to win some sweet Inhabischwag! Enter to win today!

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If you love cruising along the city streets on your two-wheeler or charging along the sidewalks on foot, what better way to take advantage of the outdoors than with this super practical solar bag? Designed by Swiss company Sakku, the sakku.traveler is a stylish solar bag that not only stores energy from the sun to power up your favorite gadgets, but each bag has been made from recycled boat sails! Built to last, the choice material offers some signs of wear for a truly unique and vintage meets modern look. And to show that you’re definitely the proud owner of a one-of-a-kind piece, each bag has been numbered and labeled with the origin of the sail. If you’re loving this bag as much as we are, then good news — in our latest Back-to-School contest where we’re giving away a sakku-traveller stuffed full of eco-friendly school supplies (worth $600!) to one lucky winner! Enter to win here!

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GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH AN AMAZING NEW SOLAR BAG!

If you want to put your best (and greenest) foot forward as you start the new school year, we’ve got something that will help – a lot. We’re giving away a fantastic Back to School Prize Package (worth over $500) packed with green school supplies to one lucky winner – and it could be you! This amazing bundle includes 7 awesome 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem, a 100% recycled binder, tabs and binder pouch from Naked Binder, and to top it all off, an amazing solar-powered bag by Sakku (worth $450) that keeps all your gadgets charged up using power from the sun!

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WIN A BACK TO SCHOOL SOLAR BAG BUNDLE WORTH OVER $500!

Headed back to school and need some help getting inspired? Inhabitat is here to help! We’ve got an awesome eco back-to-school package that we’ll be giving away to one lucky winner in our Green Back-to-School contest. You may have noticed we ran a contest like this last week on Inhabitat… Well it was so popular that we decided to do another one and really up the ante this time. So if you didn’t win in the last contest, now you have another chance! We’ll be giving away an amazing bundle that includes 7 awesome 100% recycled hardcover notebooks in assorted colors and styles by ecosystem, a 100% recycled binder, tabs and binder pouch from Naked Binder, and to top it all off, an incredible solar-powered bag by Sakku (worth $450) that keeps all your gadgets charged up using power from the sun!

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There’s no denying that solar powered bags are a great way to keep your gadgets charged on the go, but there’s one problem – they’re pretty pricey. That’s why we were pleasantly surprised to find this stylish messenger by Sunplugged. At $129, it has many of the cool capabilities that other sun-fueled bags have – the ability to turn 1 hour of direct sunlight into over 1.75 hours of iPod playtime or nearly 1 hour of cell phone talk time – without the $300 + price tag. Plus, it’s able to charge virtually any portable computer or hand-held electronic device and features a waterproof, scratch resistant, high-efficiency monocrystalline solar panel.

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Canvas swag bags are par for the course these days, but PopTech upped the ante yesterday by giving conference attendees the Swag Bag to End All Swag Bags: a Timbuk2 messenger bag that’s really a portable, solar-powered lantern in disguise. Built in collaboration with the Portable Light Project, the FLAP—Flexible Light and Power—incorporates solar panels that can be charged by day, and then used to power a built-in LED light or a cell phone/iPod at night.

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Tired of trying to find an outlet to charge your cell phone, iPod, and computer while on the go? Then what you need is a solar powered bag to charge all your devices and free yourself from the grid. Our friends over at Planet Green are giving away 2 Voltaic Solar backpacks each week this summer, and all you have to do is enter you name to win one! The contest just started this month and runs through until December 8th, 2009, so enter today for a shot at winning one of these fantastic Voltaic Backpacks, which have 3 solar panels and are made with fabric from recycled plastic bottles.

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For over a week we have run our Back to School Contest to giveaway a fabulous solar-powered bag by Noon Solar. In the last few days, we have received over 100 funny, heartwarming, and just plain wacky submissions from you guys trying to convince us who is the most deserving of the free Noon Solar bag. We were completely floored by how many amazingly thoughtful and creative responses we got, and have had a really hard time picking a winner out of so many compelling submissions. But we only have one Noon Solar bag to giveaway, so without further ado, the winner is….

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If you’ve been reading Inhabitat this past week, you might have noticed that we’ve been running a little Back-to-School contest to giveaway some fabulous green goodies, including an awesomely stylish solar powered bag by Noon Solar (worth over $415). Just to make sure all of our dedicated readers have a chance to participate and try for this great prize, we’ve decided to extend the contest deadline by a few more days. In order to enter this contest, you MUST REGISTER FOR THE INHABITAT NEWSLETTER by Wednesday August 27th.

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Go back to school in sustainable style with Noon Solar sexy new solar handbags! We first wrote about Noon Solar in 2007, when the Chicago-based design company blew us away with their unusually stylish take on the typically boxy / techy solar powered bag. We love the idea of photovoltaic solar power bags in general, but most of the available options are so uninspired in terms of aesthetics, that when Noon Solar’s impeccably tailored designs hit the scene, they came as a breath of fresh air for those of us who want to look good while also trying to do good.

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Here’s the perfect carry-all solution if you’re headed back to school but just don’t want summer to end- the Juice solar tote from Reware is big enough for your new textbooks, but beach ready for your last few Indian summer adventures. These durable bags can “re-juice” smaller electronics such as cell phones, BlackBerry, PDA, MP3 player or handheld GPS. And even better, they’re made from biodegradable canvas, and the panel itself can be removed and use separately from the bag.


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