Winners of the 'Viva la Resolution' contest!

ChangeEverything.ca is thrilled to announce the winners of the Viva la Resolution contest!

In first place…..drum roll please…..EnviroWoman! Vowing to eliminate plastics from her life in 2007, each post tells the story – often hilarious – of her attempts to find non-plastic alternatives to a product many of the rest of us take for granted. Her blog posts invariably foster lively comment threads that become little resource libraries, pointing to plastic-free options and information.

With a dawning awareness that we'll have to make profound changes in our lives – and that switching to compact fluorescents alone won't cut it – EnviroWoman is steering a deft middle course of change between the daunting and the incremental. And a growing number of people are hopping on for the ride.

EnviroWoman's saga has struck a chord across the blogging world. Treehugger, the 800-pound gorilla of sustainability blogs, picked up her story and across the Atlantic, her blog has become one of The Guardian's "sites we love".

Understandably our judges thought she deserved the 1st prize and we couldn’t agree more.

And EnviroWoman inspired us so much that we decided to rethink how we awarded her the prize - clearly a plastic credit card would not do for EnviroWoman! And while Vancity is looking into alternatives to conventional plastics for our line of Visa Cards, for now we have decided to award our prize winners with paper checks instead. Envirowoman made an appearance at Vancity Head Office where Dave Mowat awarded her her entirely plastic free prize! (pictured here)

In second place, LJMK was inspired to get rid of things she didn’t need anymore, everything from old clothing to toxins in her body. If you’re thinking about offloading some of your junk and are looking for some inspiration, have a read

And in third place Degan writes poignantly and honestly about the trials and joys of preparing to run a marathon for charity.

All three of these women continue to inspire and motivate the people around them and we’re honoured to have them as part of the ChangeEverything community.

We’d also like to acknowledge all the other entrants. It is a brave thing to state a change you are going to make, you are all an inspiration to me and all of us who keep ChangeEverything going.