Tag: Bottled Water - Page 8
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The WaterGeeks Kid-Friendly BPA Free Water Bottle
Reusable Water Bottles for Kids As evidenced by the discussion of the sleek and funky looking Kor One Water Bottle, TreeHugger readers get pretty fired up (and opinionated) about new ways to ditch the disposable bottled water habit. And with Wal-Mart
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Save $1,400 a Year By Drinking Tap Water
At least that's the assertion of Eric Yaverbaum, of Tappening, an anti-bottled water enterprise, as outlined in an interview with the excellent Wend magazine: "And if you don't buy my environmental argument, buy my financial one financially
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Conferences, Stop Giving Bottled Water to Speakers! That's the Next Challenge
I’m sure you’ve all been there: You're at some sort of conference, panel discussion or
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Take Filtered Water With You
Okay so you've gotten over the bottled water hump, purchased your own canteen of sorts and now you merrily take water with you wherever you go. You can use a Brita or Pur filter at home when you leave in the morning,
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Survey: What Water Do You Drink?
We were pleased to learn that Brita has succumbed to the will of the people and will take back filters for recycling; having to throw out filters every month sort of contradicted the green healthy image. So what do you drink? What water do you drink?
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Take Back the Filter Campaign Succeeds: Brita Will Recycle
This just in from the Take Back the Filter campaign:
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The Carbon Footprint of Moving Bottled Water
John-Paul Flintoff of the Times drove to Oxford and back, a total of a hundred miles, and noticed that he had a bottle of water on the seat. He wondered how much energy it took to move it.
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Talking Faucet Spouts Off, Angers Bottled Water Company
A bottled water producer became uncorked when the Miami-Dade water company placed radio ads that featured a talking faucet. This faucet would gab in a Brooklyn-style accent about the superb quality of water that came from its fellow
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Waste Water to Be Bottled & Sold in India
Though water is still often collected from taps in many places, as an estimated 1600 people die daily across the country from contaminated water supplies, the market for purified bottled water is growing. Water jugs waiting to be filled, photo by: McKay
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Bioneers 2008: Food & Water Watch Takes Up with San Francisco Restuarants
Yesterday I talked about the high standard Bioneers has set for the conference, including ditching bottled water and serving water only at stations. So, appropriately enough, Food & Water Watch had information about Taking Back the
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250 Million Pounds of Drugs Flushed Down the Toilet by Hospitals
You can't win. The entire environmental movement is down on bottled water (and making progress) when the word comes out that hospitals and nursing homes are flushing about 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals down the
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How Green was the 2008 US Open? Were there net-ecobenefits?
This year, with much fanfare, the U.S. Open went "green." Greening meaning the United States Tennis Association (U.S.T.A) reviewed its operations and supply chain and strove to reduce environmental
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Bottled Water Market Begins to Stagnate in the United States
The very un-TreeHugger nature of the bottled water industry has graced this site numerous times, but there is some good news:
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This Week in the Huffington Post
Fossil Fuels Are the Bottled Water of Energy: We already know the numerous reasons why bottled water is bad, including the energy and water it takes to manufacture, ship and discard the product, as well as the fact that tap water must meet more
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Russian River Wine Fests Become Water Teetotalers
How many plastic water bottles would you think are disposed of at wine festivals? Couple thousand? (Event that seems like a ton of plastic for just one event). Well, three events - the Winter Wineland, Barrel
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Australia's Drought Worsens
Reuters reported this morning that the worst drought in 117 years, which has been ongoing for the last ten years in the Murray-Darling river area, is not expected to let up anytime soon, scientists warn. This affects not only
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Back To The Tap: Three Ways To Get Fancy Water, And Skip The Plastic Bottle
The problem of one-use plastic bottles has far from gone away - we're still chucking out 30 billion empties globally each year. At least a six-pack of different U.S. and Canadian cities has come up with some kind of bottled
