Tag: Bottled Water - Page 10
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Mother's Day Gift Guide
Despite its bad rep as a Hallmark Holiday, Mother's Day has historic significance that pre-dates the sappy greeting cards, flowers, and candy: During the American Civil War, social activist Julia Ward Howe organized it as a way to unify women against
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FIJI Water Leads Bottled Water Industry In Looking Green(er)
From the "That's one way to handle it" files: today, FIJI Water announced that they've done a lot of research and ready to fully disclose the carbon footprint of its products. They've joined the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain Leadership
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Nobu Makes Rice with Fiji Water
Groovy Green found an odd article on a branding and marketing website that carries an ode to the wonders of Fiji Water and its founder, and raves about its price (more than milk, beer or gas) saying "Such super-premium prices communicate exclusivity,
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Most Huggable: Sustainable Burritos, Big Oil Bad Boys, Non-Leaching Nalgene + More
Chipotle Mexican Grill beefs up their eco-cred with sustainably raised pork.
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Bye Bye Bottle - Scandic Hotels Turn To The Tap
Scandinavia's Scandic Hotel chain wasn't even featured in a recent New York Times review of hip hotels attempting to reduce their eco-impact, yet Scandic has gone far beyond encouraging guests to forgo sheet-washing and towel changing. By switching to
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City of Seattle Gives Bottled Water the Boot
First San Francisco banned it. Then Chicago started taxing it. Now, the city of Seattle is taking action against bottled water; last week, Mayor Greg Nickels signed an executive order to stop the city from buying bottled
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Ovopur: A Water Filter that Looks Good
World Water Day is around the corner; it is a good time to think about what you are drinking. With bottled water off the table, many people are using filtered carafes like Brita filters, but they are made of polycarbonates and now that we are concerned
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TH Forums Highlights: Recycling Plastic Bottles, Starting a Farmstead + More
1) Forums user NReiter has a question about some recycling rumors for the community: "and im not sure this is true...but I've heard that water bottles do not get recycled if they have the caps still on them..is there any truth in that ? also, anything
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Wal-Mart's Lee Scott: "We are not green."
I do not shop at Wal-Mart but after you read Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect you realise that whether or not you shop there, it still affects you. I have been impressed by Lee Scott and his attempts to green Wal-Mart; never more than I was by his
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Survey: Are You Worried About Your Water?
We have worried that some might be nervous about drinking tap water after the recent Associated Press study that purported to find traces of hormones and antibiotics in some municipal water supplies, and might be scared into switching to bottled water.
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Drugs Are In Our Water! Should I Switch to Bottled?
All the webs are abuzz about an Associated Press study that found pharmaceuticals in drinking water. Our resident chemist didn't think much of it (it is all old news to TreeHuggers) and concluded: "Thanks a lot AP, for handing a
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Tennessee Mayor Offers A Drink To Atlanta
You may remember the recent water grabbing intentions of drought-stricken, development-drunk Georgia. See: "Georgia Considers Redrawing State Boundary To Get Access To Tennessee River." The Mayor of Chattanooga Tennessee, whose goods are coveted by
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Steve Greenberg on Bottled Water
Steve Greenberg of the Ventura County Star does a good graphic analysis of the silliness of bottled water. We think he is way off on the amount of CO2 generated per year; when we go back to the numbers posted by Pablo Paster on the true cost of bottled
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Bottled Water Drinkers Are The New Smokers
A year ago we quoted Giles Coren of the London Times writing "Mineral water is a preposterous vanity." This modest and self-effacing food critic now takes credit for the government taking action about it.
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Top 100 (SIGGnificant) Eco Moments of All Time
The good people at SIGG have teamed up with Laurie David's Stop Global Warming virtual march (remember, you can march with TreeHugger) to count down 100 Eco Moments in honor of the Swiss bottle-maker's 100th birthday. From now until Earth Day (April
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TH Forums Highlights: Eco Stereotypes, Sigg Sipping + More
1) Forums user ChocolateBikes says, "Lately I have been feeling the stereotypes of being an "environmentalist". People think I've lost my mind because I have given up meat, and commute to school via bike in January, for example. My biggest frustration is
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Greenwash Watch: "Green" Bottled Water
We do go on about the evils of bottled water, and have noted that no matter what kind of package it comes in, it is still a scam, costing thousands of times what tap water costs, and still requiring fuel for delivery. But listen to the language coming
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Most Huggable: Wind Power Rising, Ecolabels Rated, Bye-Bye, Bottled Water + More
Last week, the American Wind Energy Association reported record growth in wind power generation during 2007.
