Hope To Others: Bottled Water with a Cause
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.28.06
H to O (Hope to Others) says that tapping into just one percent of the 35 billion dollars spent on bottled water, and donating 100% of the profits to feed the hungry, house the needy and restore the environment would be a good thing. "Together we can change the world... one sip at a time". Founded by film director Tom Shadyac, he models the idea after Paul Newman and Newman's Own. The water comes from a spring high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains "fed by snowmelt from the higher elevations." Unfortunately we post this on the same day we finished reading Elizabeth Kolbert's "Notes from a Catastrophe" and our note to Tom is- if we keep trucking water and packing it in plastic bottles and shipping them around the world there won't be any snowmelt from higher elevations. Notwithstanding your donations to the poor and needy, the best first step to restoring the environment is to stop drinking bottled water. ::Htoo
Bottled water somehow counts as Tree Hugging? Drink tap water to save trees, drink bottled water to spend your money. I can't believe this site falls for this kind of stuff.
The blog embraces other social issues at times, but this may be better recieved at peoplehugger.com
Shouldn't that be "stop drinking bottled water that comes directly from snowmelt and limit yourself to bottled water that only pretends to come from snowmelt and really comes from municipal tap water sources"?
Guys... did you read the blurb at all? The mods criticize the bottler in the last paragraph...
I don't think TH is "embracing" this particular one...
"Peoplehugging" is very much the same thing as "treehugging" and should never be thought of as exclusive! Unless people's basic needs are met, we can forget about saving the planet.
That said, I'm getting kinda tired of yet another plastic bottle!
can i have credits for that photo? I made that site for Tom a few years ago for free. I'd love to have at least a little credit in the caption or something.
LA: Sure, I will fix it later today.
Ditto... this post is an outrage and shouldn't be on treehugger.
"Check out this new water you shouldn't drink (link provided). "
Cut out the middle man and donate all of what you'd spend on bottled water to your favorite cause.
LA: if you look, the series is callled strange waters and it is about how un-treehugger and silly these are.
First off; At least someone is trying to do something that can help the environment. Ask yourself what you did today to help! Maybe next time you take a cruise trip, you will not drink water. There are issues with plastic, and there is a solution......