The iPad has not only revolutionized homes and businesses—it has helped revolutionize the way they go green. This recent Mashable article highlights iPad apps people and companies are using to manage energy usage and conduct environmental auditing, as well as reduce paper usage. Featured above is the Lutron Home Control+ iPad app, $19.99. For those of you who have an iPad or other type of tablet, how are you using it to live a more sustainable life?

In honor of Earth Day, step up to the environmental plate and treat yourself to that iPad you are coveting. If not for you, for Mother Earth. If it’s not quite in the budget right now, here are 10 (more) easy ways to win one.

1. Win an iPad on EForCity

2. Win 1 of 2 iPads from Scribendi

3. Win an iPad from I Could Use a Deal

4. Win an iPad2 from Dagmar Momsense

5. Like the PTS Multimedia Facebook Page and comment to win an iPad

6. Win an iPad2 from The Washington Examiner

7. Win an iPad2 on Blogelina

8. Win an iPad2 from 11 Alive Atlanta

9. Enter Discovery’s Deadliest Catch Giveaway for a chance to win an iPad

10. Enter the Fast Five Giveaway for a chance to win an iPad

Image via Mashable

We will never understand why Gift Cards get such a bad rap. For one, the recipient gets a chance to to shop for what they want. For two, it’s less work for the giver. Sounds like a win to us. We found five ways to win a gift card below. To start, be sure to enter to win a $1,000 Spa Week Gift Card to splurge on the treatments of your choice. Want to make money? Sign up for our Facebook Make Money app to make 10% on Spa Week Gift Card sales. And without further ado:

Give your little ones a fashionable transition into spring by winning a $25 Gift Card for The Childen’s Place on The Cool Kids Blog

Splurge on a new pair of jeans when you enter to win a $100 Shopbop Gift Card on Sololisa.com

Win a $50 Gift Certificate from Vintage Pearl on Pawberrylane

Get  a jump start on redecorating for spring winning a $50 Home Depot Gift Card from Pennypinchinmom

Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card on Math Concentration

You ever get the random urge to grab a glue gun, a few yards of fabric and just want to create? Then get ready to hustle over to these blogs for this week’s round up of giveaways. If you’ve ever once considered being an art teacher and the sight of crayons makes you giddy, enhance your creative outlet by entering any of the giveaways below.

Enter to win Pop & Lolli Wall Art from Hostess with the Mostess

Enter the Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway from “Cents”able Momma

Win a Spring Punch Set Giveaway from Martha Stewart

Win a White Wash Comfort Tea Towel from KB is Living the High Life

Enter the $250 Modern Mural Giveaway on Bon Bon Rose Girls

Win a box of custom redstarINK note cards from The Short and The Sweet of It

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This week’s round up of giveaways has us lusting for beaches, palm trees and neon lights. While we anxiously await pleasant weather’s return, below you’ll find a chance to escape to Miami (about 16 Miami-area spas are participating in Spa Week this Spring!) and a $10,000 wardrobe fit for a stroll on South Beach.

<– The Grand Slam of giveaways enter to win a trip to Miami includes Hotel + Airfare for 2 from PopSugar City Washington DC!

Because you want to be in shape for that bikini… enter to win Jane Fonda’s Workout DVDs from Twirlit

Enter to win a $665 Yema Diving Chrono Watch from A Blog to Read

Fit in with the rest of the fashionable folks by entering to win a $10,000 Wardrobe from Net-a-porter on FabSugar

Set the mood in your hotel with a 3 Piece Soy Candle Set from Mama To 3 Blessings

For those chilly Miami nights enter to win a Michael Kors Trench on What I Wore

Michelle enters week 2 of her Tour de Italia. So far through her journey we’ve learned how to make pasta from scratch, introduced to the ever so gentlemanly Professor Bene, and that Italian’s love their religion, uh we mean pasta. This week you’ve had a chance to win authentic Italian souvenirs and a jump start on holiday shopping season through Spa Week’s Holiday Gift Card Sale. Here are 7 other hot links around the web.

Around The World With Only a Carryon: My Adventure Wardrobe – Betty Confidential

Jessica Biel’s Vintage Rendition of Revlon’s Fire and Ice – T Magazine

Italy Asked Top Designers to Redesigned Their Country’s Flag – WWD

DIY Beauty: How To Paint Your Nails Like A Pro! – Moptop Maven

66 % of Women Use Expired Makeup – Stylist

Keira Knightly Is Fashion Indie’s Best Dressed of The Week at the Rome Film Festival – Fashion Indie

Bronzed And Beautiful: The Right Way To Rock A Tan In Winter – StyleCaster

Image Courtesy of T Magazine