UPDATE: It’s official – Congratulations to our 2 lucky winners: J. Valentine of Illinois and Catrina H. of Tennessee. J will receive a Stream throw and Catrina will receive a Mulberry throw. Thanks to everyone for participating, and to Gaiam for their generosity. Enjoy this beautiful season. (original post follows…)
The holidays are almost here, and our pals at Gaiam are helping us spread some good green cheer.
Available exclusively from Gaiam, 2 lucky readers will each get to wrap themselves silly in a plush, organic cotton Fireside Throw. You’ll love the cozy warmth, cashmere-like feel and ability to machine wash this eco fabulous gift.
You even get to choose your favorite style from 10 beautiful hues: chocolate, light brown stripe reversing to soft-solid brown, mulberry, natural, honey, sage, persimmon, shale, stream, or paprika. (Throw measures 71″ x 51″.) Retail value, $98 plus free shipping to anywhere in the USA or Canada.
To Enter this Random Drawing, simply:
- Visit gaiam.com and pick your favorite Fireside Throw.
- Then leave a comment on this post, telling us what you’re doing this season to make your holidays greener.
- Add the following address to your email address book: m at AlternativeConsumer.com.
Two lucky winners will be selected in our Random Drawing, and notified by email. Contest ends Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:59p (EST). Winners have 24 hours to claim their prize, or offer is null and void. Winners’ names will also be included on this post. Hey, if you don’t get selected in this random drawing, it’s a good buy and great gift for the holiday/winter season.
*One entry per person.
*EXTRA CREDIT If you have your own blog, you can post about the giveaway with a link back to this giveaway post. To make sure we know, you can come back and leave a comment with a link to your blog post.
If you Twitter, you can tweet about the giveaway once a day — be sure to refer to @altCon and @Gaiam, and leave a comment linking to the status.
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My favorite is the persimmon. To green our holidays we purchase cards and wrapping paper made from recycled paper content.
My fave is the Stream color throw. My holidays are greener because we use an artificial tree year after year.
the chocolate one looks the coziest and will hide the hot chocolate the best. we have an abundance of poorly placed evergreens in our yard (thanks to the original owners of our house) that need to be cleared so that other plants can flourish. we’re using one of those trees for our Christmas tree since they need to come down anyway.
I like the Organic Throw in chocolate! :)
To make my holidays greener, I’ve cut down on the use of electricity at my house. I’m not leaving lights on as long as I have in the past.
i love mulberry!! we are making our holiday greener by recycling bags, boxes, wraps and bows. we have also cut down on driving unnecessarily.
We have our lights on timers and instead of a real tree we have an artifical tree.To get the pine scent we use air freshener(pine scent)Works well!!We are a fan on facebook as well
My favorite color of throw is paprika. To make my holidays greener, I’ve asked that everyone only buy me eco-friendly gifts. We’ve also shopped green for gifts, switched to LED bulbs and used recycled paper for wrapping.
And I did add this site to my facebook page.
My favorite fireside throw is the persimmon color. No paper products at our office potluck this year
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I love the sage color, it’s so pretty. To make my holidays greener I’m not using any paper wrap, but using reusable gift bags, both new and ones leftover from previous Christmases.
My favorite Fireside Throw is Sage.
I am now a fan on Facebook: Nicole O.
I am a facebook fan!
I like the chocolate color.
I like Mulberry.
I am turning off the Xmas lights by 10pm and waiting to turn them on until 6pm. I am also using recycled christmas paper, and all my baked goodies this year are organic and flour and eggs purchased by local people. :)
This holiday season I am making extra effort to carry my own reusable shopping bags with me. With all the purchases and groceries and all, there are way too many plastic bags going into the landfill. I’ll do what I can on my end to help alleviate that a little bit.
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http://tnshadylady.blogspot.com/2009/12/alternative-consumer-gaiam-organic.html
Hi! My favorite throw is the sage one
This christmas I’m going to be watching movies with my family, while drinking hot chocolate or white chocolate peppermint mochas. mm :)
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I get your rss feed
I follow on twitter
I”m a fan on facebook
paprika and we are trying to avoid plastic gifts this year
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I like both the sage and the stream fireside throw.
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I am also a fan on facebook and to make my holidays greener (i forgot to put this in my original post) I use recyclable cloth bags for wrapping. They are fun colored and stylish
I subscribe via RSS
I follow altcon on twitter! @socialison
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Love the mulberry throw!
My favorite fireside throw is Mulberry. To make my holidays greener, I am reusing old mylar balloons. I turn them inside out (shiny side facing out) and make a little bag. Then, I take the string from the balloons and use it as ribbon for the present.
I’m a fan on Facebook and following @altCon and @Gaiam on Twitter. My twitter account is @GreenGirl1213
Thanks!
Beautiful giveaway I love the stream throw. I wrap my gifts in recycled vintage linens or pretty vintage tea towel…I also recycle bows.
Marian
My favorite Fireside Throw is the Mulberry. Like many other people, we too are using reusable gift bags for Christmas this year. I also bought a new phone that’s 100% recyclable!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ve been following AltCon for a while now, on Twitter. I can be found at @JennSweepsAlot. Thanks again!
My favorite would be the Natural Organic Fireside Blanket. I’m a fan on facebook and twitter.com Thank you.
PS I’ll be spending time with loved ones this holiday.
I’d like to curl up under the persimmon color throw. To make our holidays greener I send out cards made from recycled paper. I wrap gifts in leftover colorful fabric pieces, decorate with boughs from the woods and use LED lights. Happy Holidays!
I like the Chocolate throw!
To make our holiday greener this year, we have opted to buy less, use a potted Christmas tree and do not traveling!
I am now following on Twitter, my user name is TheWAHM and also a new fan on FaceBook!
Sent a tweet also.
http://twitter.com/TheWAHM/status/6529974924
I like the Organic Throw in Natural.
I follow your RSS Feed.
we’re giving gifts of love and activities, not STUFF this xmas to cut down.
the sage throw is my fav color. I am giving all gift cards this year so nothing to wrap.
I like the honey colored Fireside Blanket the best.
I’m loving the “natural” color. It matches everything. I adore eco gifts! This year has been my greenest year ever! Not only did I majorly step up recycling, not only for myself, but my entire street, but I’m continually blogging about the benefits of being green …I practically sing it from the rooftops! Not to mention, I’ve given away so many copies of An Inconvenient Truth to share the knowledge. Team Earth :)
I like the sage one!
Well, this isn’t a very good thing to admit, but I’m greener this year because I haven’t had the time, inclination, or energy to put up a tree or Christmas lights yet. So we’re saving lots of money on electricity for all the lights! But, on the positive side, I DO save all my Christmas cards and wrapping paper to recycle with the Town (along with the tree) right after New Years.
My favourite is the chocolate throw.
I cut up old cards and use them as tags.
I would love to have any of them! I have tweeted your post too. Happy Christmas
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