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.
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.
ENTER TODAY AT PLANET GREEN >
AND THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL WINNER IS….
by Jill Fehrenbacher, 08/29/08
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….
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.
There are just a few days left to enter, so SIGN UP NOW >
NOON SOLAR hot new solar bags for back to school!
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.
JUICE SOLAR TOTE from ReWare
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.
LOTS MORE GREAT GREEN DESIGN STORIES HERE... KEEP READING!
