[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days, again]

A “sea glass” (aka greenish) Jimi — the recycled and recyclable compact wallet — goes to Kathryn Pope, as a thanks for writing about her de-car-ing adventures on Emerald City.

Kathryn got a motorboard, a bus pass, and a love for a car-free lifestyle after her old car broke down. She’s actually gotten rid of the motorboard — “Apparently, I’m just too hard on the thing to keep it working,” she says — but is now biking and loving it.

Want your own Jimi? I got this one via my friend Summer’s eco-boutique, BTC Elements.

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Update, 11/17/08: Kathryn’s now got her own blog — and has de-car’d entirely!

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[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days, again]

A red (different from pic) Jimi — the recycled and recyclable compact wallet — goes to Cassandra, as a thanks for writing about her Valley girl take on L.A. sprawl in Emerald City.

Want your own Jimi? I got this one via my friend Summer’s eco-boutique, BTC Elements.

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[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days, again]

A blue “Ebb and Flow” organic cotton T-shirt goes to Alex Thompson, as a thank you for writing fun bicycle activist posts at Emerald City.

Alex actually covered pretty much all you need to know to become an uber-biker in L.A. Don’t see why you should bike? Alex has 8 billion reasons why. Don’t have a bike yet? Here’s a two-parter on how to find one that’ll work for you. Want to become a bike activist? Just follow steps one, two, and three.

Thanks to Alex for all the bicycling encouragement and advice. You can get ebb and flow and other eco-friendly T-shirts at Summer’s boutique, BTC Elements.

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[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days, again]

Barent, Green Drinks organizer, also is a green design expert and teaches a sustainable packaging class at the Art Institute of California. Yesterday, the students had their final presentation — and Summer and I sat in as guest critics.

Each student presented 3 different eco-product packaging ideas for RadioShack products — some of which were really innovative and professional-looking! All was great except one aspect: It all kicked off at an hour I rarely experience: 7:30 am….

This is the first gift of time from me in this challenge! Thanks to Barent for inviting me — and for the Clif bars and for lunch at Mrs Winston’s Green Grocery post-critique.

Photos by Summer Bowen

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A twice-weekly sharing of eco-shwag.

Today’s giveaway is a Hero Bag, made of 80% recycled cotton scraps (pre-consumer) and 20% recycled plastic bottles.

This Hero Bag’s a cute, sturdy woman-designed bag that’s fairly-made in the US using 100% reclaimed materials, from a woman-founded Cali (local for me) company. I reviewed the eco-friendly bags here.

Comment or email by Sunday to get into the drawing, which’ll happen Monday. US addresses only.

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