Here’s a little more information about each of the sponsors for this giveaway:

SoapHope.com – Soap Hope is an online marketplace where you can order safe and healthy bath, body, beauty and other products, like cleansers and food canisters. Here’s what’s terrific about them: each time you purchase at Soap Hope, 100% of the profits – every single dollar – goes to empower women to life them, their families, and their communities, out of extreme poverty. The giveaway includes two Kleen Kanteen stainless steel water bottles, a reusable food storage container, and 4 cases of yummy RX bars. PLUS $100 in shopping credits to use on SoapHope.

EthicalBean.com – Ethical Bean is a fair trade, organic company that supports community groups at home and abroad in their efforts to educate kids and promote activities like Bike to Work Week. PLUS Fair trade is particularly important because it ensures that growers and producers are paid a fair wage that allows coffee farmers to “live in greater harmony with the land.” The giveaway includes a 6-pack of this delicious coffee.

MyGreenMattress.com – Now here’s a mattress you can rest easy on. It’s GREENGUARD Gold certified, made with organic cotton, and using wool instead of toxic fire retardants. PLUS The mattresses are made in the U.S., invented by a dad whose daughter was allergic to the mattresses that are commonly sold in mattress stores. She needed something better. He made it for her, and is now making it available to you. Giveaway includes the company’s Natural Escape Mattress.

BigGreenPurse.com – If you don’t have a copy of my popular book yet, now’s your chance to get one personally autographed from me to you. Find out why it’s called “the big green bible!” It includes over 400 pages of great info, tips, and resources you won’t want to miss. PLUS It takes the confusion out of going green and will make it easier than ever for you to live the green life you want, in a way you can afford.

Remember: You Have to Enter to Be Able to Win!

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French press. Bodum Chambord’s elegant but inexpensive model (pictured left) makes delicious coffee; the Columbia design contains the coffee in a thermal carafe to keep the beverage warm without the need for an electric hot plate.

Chemex manual drip coffeepots. This hourglass-shaped flask can use recycled paper filters. Make as little as one cup of coffee, or as many as ten.

Chef’s Choice electric French press plus. This environmentally-friendly technology combines the French press and an energy-saving electric kettle in one pot.

One-cup coffeemakers. These efficient pots can brew coffee in less than a minute, eliminating the need to prepare a whole pot. Check the housewares section of Target, Wal-Mart, or your local department store.   

When buying a new coffeemaker:

Consider how much coffee you consume at any given time. If you drink only one cup of coffee in the morning, and maybe one again in the evening, don’t buy a machine that automatically brews eight or ten or twelve cups. You’ll be wasting energy, water, coffee-and ultimately, money.

Get a carafe. Do you sip coffee sporadically through the morning or afternoon? Rather than keep a pot warm on an electric hot plate, buy a good insulated carafe to keep your “joe” hot through the end of the day.

Looking for an electric-drip appliance? Choose one that shuts off automatically.

And if you like to grind your own beans, try:

Danesco manual coffee grinder. A stainless steel grinder with a clip canister, it lets you grind coffee beans fine or coarse using no kilowatts but your own.

 Wondering what kind of coffee to buy? We’ve already figured it out!

What about your mug? Look here.

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