Just in time for summer, the *NEW* Stainless Steel Double-Walled water bottles are in.  They can keep your cold drinks chilled for up to 24 hours.  Also great for hot drinks, these bottles keep your favorite tea or coffee steaming for up to 8 hours.  Each bottle is made from food grade stainless steel, comes with a stainless steel cap, and has an included carabiner.

Double walled bottles are often referred to by different names including vacuum bottle, insulated bottle, or even thermos bottle.  Besides keeping your drinks hot/cold for a much longer time period than an ordinary stainless steel bottle, they don’t sweat in warm weather.

Specs:

Capacity – 750 ml
Weight – 11 ozs
Cap – Stainless Steel with carabiner
Height – 10.5 inches

For more information or to purchase, please visit the Planet Zero Gravity site.

WANTED – TALENTED ARTISTS.  Planet Zero Gravity is looking for creative designs to be printed on our stainless steel water bottles. The theme is ‘Live Big’. This could mean an extreme sports design, an outdoors scene, or anything else that the phrase inspires in you. Click here to find out what ‘Live Big’ means to us.

Artists can submit their artwork to us until the end of May. This artwork along with a short artist bio or design description will be posted on our website for people to vote on through the end of July. Once the voting is over, the artist whose design receives the most votes wins $150 and will have their artwork featured on our bottles.  The design must be your own original artwork.

For more details visit the Planet Zero Gravity website at: http://www.planetzerogravity.com/vote/contest.php.

Good Luck!

Artists, we need your designs!  Viewers, we need your votes!  Come check out the improved web interface for our artist competitions.  Designers, you now have your own login area to upload artwork, manage your profile, and select which artwork you want included in upcoming competitions.  For our web viewers, voting on your favorite design is now easier with thumbnails of all the artwork on one page.  You can click on any thumbnail for a full-sized image and artist details.

Stay tuned, the next Planet Zero Gravity artist competition is just around the corner.

For more information, please visit http://www.planetzerogravity.com/design-competition/info.html.

Need ideas for gifts during the holiday season?  Why not give a water bottle?  Not only do they make great stocking stuffers, but you can feel good that you are contributing to a healthier lifestyle and reducing pollution.

Planet Zero Gravity has two sizes of bottles, 1 liter and 0.5 liter.  They both have wide mouths to make cleaning easier.  The 0.5 liter bottles have 2 cap options – a sports top or the eco-friendly stainless steel cap.  Also, visit our website for bottle totes by Eco-East and to see what water purifier works well with our stainless steel sports bottles.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

-Planet Zero Gravity

Thanks for making our business better.  We asked our web visitors who did not purchase any of our bottles why.  We took your top reasons and made some changes:

1.  At the top of the list was price.  Even though our unpainted stainless steel bottles sold at $19.99 with free shipping, we realize economic times are tough.  So for a limited time, we are dropping the price to $17.99.  This beats most of our other competitiors out there when you factor in their shipping and handling costs.

2. You also said you would like some other bottle designs with different cap options.  Available next month (August 2009) will be the new line of Planet Zero Gravity water bottles.  These bottles will be smaller than our current design – 0.6 liters versus 1 liter.  They will fit in most cupholders and feature 2 different caps – a stainless steel or a sports cap. 

Stay tuned for more information on our website in the next couple weeks and thanks to everyone who took the time to vote.

-Planet Zero Gravity

The first-ever Planet Zero Gravity artwork competition is on.  Artists have submitted their designs and we need your help in deciding which one will be featured on our water bottles.  We have had some terrific submissions – ‘Thanks’ go out to all the artists that participated.

To see the entries, visit http://www.planetzerogravity.com/media/competitions/artist-submissions-609.

You can vote on your favorite by selecting the artist’s design in the polling sidebar on the left side of the page.  A couple of the artists have more than one entry, so be sure to pick the correct one.  Voting will continue until July 31, 2009.  The winner with the most votes gets $150 cash and their design on our bottles.

Good Luck to everyone!!

-Planet Zero Gravity

Are you an artist / graphic designer?  Need some extra cash?

It’s here…our first ever artist competition to design the graphics for our stainless steel water bottles.  Contestants have until the end of May 2009 to send us their artwork.  It will be posted on our site for everyone to vote on through the end of July.  The winner who gets the most votes receives cash and will have their design featured on our bottles.  Designs must be original!

For more information please visit the Planet Zero Gravity site.

Heart disease it the nation’s leading cause of death. What are you doing to prevent it? Hopefully by now you are exercising your way to a healthy heart. It is a New Year, and this year should be a year of healthy living for you and your family. Did you know that many studies suggest that taking a brisk walk for as little as three to four hours a week can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 65 percent? The month of February is American Heart Month. Below are some simple steps to improving your health that you can easily add to your day. Just by adding additional movement to your daily routine can increase your fitness level, self-esteem, confidence and most importantly your heart health.

• Park in the furthest parking spot and walk briskly to your office or to the store.

• Walk up and downstairs instead of taking the elevator whenever possible.

• Instead of a coffee break, go on a short walk, practice chair exercises or walk up and down the stairs. This relieves stress and burns calories!

• When you arrive home from work immediately walk the dog. If you don’t have a dog, take a walk with your children, spouse or neighbor. Do this before checking the mail, email or answering messages. Fresh air and exercise are not only good for your heart but also for better communication and stress reduction.

• When doing household chores do so at a good pace. Put some music on and make it fun. Get the whole family involved. Surprisingly a good paced house clean burns a lot of calories! A clean house and a healthy heart-now that is going to keep you stress free! The double benefit is amazing. The next time you dread washing windows, taking out the recyclables and doing the laundry, just remember the health benefit!

• One of the most important things is to make exercise fun and to keep moving!

Small steps in getting additional exercise in each day are extremely important. Once you make a conscious decision to lead a healthy lifestyle there is nothing stopping you! You will quickly be on your way to better cardiovascular health. Happy New Year!  Happy New You!

Did you know that Earth Day is celebrated globally on April 22 each year? Why not celebrate the Earth Day every day of the year? With all of the news about global warming and pollution, what steps are you taking to help the environment and make it a better place for our children and future generations? Today is the perfect time to reflect and take action.

Each of us can help everyday in simple ways. For example, you could start in your own community by buying locally. There are so many wonderful farms and local stores to purchase quality and delicious products from. When going to the store, always reuse canvas tote bags. If you keep them handy in your car you won’t forget them on your next trip. 

Re-Use and Recycle everything possible! Re-using is the best but recycling when it is not possible to reuse is responsible. Also buying in bulk, choosing organic, fair-trade and recycled paper products is immensely important. Purchase products with the least possible packaging.

 ”Green” household cleaners are readily available. These cleaners work and smell great and are non toxic. They are not only good for your home but also your health and the environment. Switching from Standard Light bulbs to Compact Fluorescent light bulbs cuts down on your energy bill and also lowers greenhouse gasses.

To conserve fuel try to take public transportation, carpool and combine trips. Bike or walk everywhere possible. This saves fuel, lowers vehicle emissions and helps keep you fit.

Lastly, carry your “Planet Zero Gravity” water bottle everyday! Stay hydrated and protect the planet by re-using your bottle and not polluting. You will feel better, the community will be cleaner and you will save an enormous amount of money.

These are just a few easy ideas for getting started in helping our planet. Each of us can make a difference and create a “cleaner, greener” future.

Stainless Steel Water Bottles

Still spending lots of money buying bottled water that tastes like plastic?  Feeling guilty about all those plastic water bottles ending up in a landfill?

Check out our eco friendly water bottles made from food grade stainless steel.  They are lightweight and BPA-Free.  Our bottles come with a wide mouth for easy cleaning.