Tag: Drinks - Page 6
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Numi Introduces First Organic Puerh Teas in the U.S.
It's true what they say about hybrid vigor. Case in point: Numi Organic's new Chocolate Puerh blend, which fuses Mayan ingenuity with China's beverage par excellence to produce a scintillating concoction that, despite the
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Can a Small Footprint Lead to a Small Willie?
James Price, a retired U.S. Army attack helicopter pilot, used to drink three quarts of soy milk every day. Now he believes that ding so may have had an effect on the size of his genitals. "I won't say it
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Four Brands of Organic Booze To Get Your Summer Party Started
Summer is approaching and it's time to dust off the yard furniture, fire up the grill (or better yet the solar cooker), and bask in the (hopefully seasonal) warmth of the season. And while there's nothing better on a lazy summer
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Camelbak Get Over the Hump of BPA with Stainless Steel Bottles
When all the fuss about Bisphenol-A (BPA) leaching from polycarbonate (aka Lexan) drink bottles came to light, one of the first to switch production to the apparently more benign Tritan plastic was Camelbak. When your business for almost 20 years has
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Eat Local, Drink Local Beer
Image via Lightning Labels Blog Dear Pablo: My favorite beer comes from Germany and I am concerned about the environmental impact. Am I an eco-villain or does "eat local" not apply to beer?While "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
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Leftfoot Charley: Reuse Your Wine Bottles
Image credit: Leftfoot Charley Bring Your Own Bottle(s): Wine from the Barrel We're not winos by any means, really we're not, but the carbon footprint of wine is a recurring theme here at TreeHugger. Whether it's the wine bottle versus box debate, or
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Ecorazzi Jams with Ben Harper, Inhabitat get Gardening, Grist's Birthday Relaunch, and More
Ecorazzi:Ben Harper To Jam Live In Rome For Earth Day by Michael D'Estries "Ben Harper will be joining forces with National Geographic Music to perform a live, free concert on Earth Day (April 22nd) in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo. Harper will perform with
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Drink Green on St. Patty's Day without Ingesting FD&C; Green No.3
Let’s get this out of the way first: I’ve never celebrated St. Patrick’s day. It’s nothing personal – I look terrible in a shamrock headband. But I thought in the spirit of this oh holiest day of imbibing, I would finally succumb
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Green Eyes On: New Trends at Natural Products Expo West
Photo courtesy of Sara SnowLast year the Natural Products Expo West tradeshow in Anaheim, California was named one of "top 50 fastest growing shows" by Tradeshow Week. This year this position was solidified by the record breaking 53,000 people who
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Hemp Beer, Wine, Vodka, Brandy, Rum, Cider, And For Tea Totallers, Hemp Ice Tea
Any self respecting TreeHugger knows all about the virtues of hemp, but did you know it has also been put to use in alcoholic beverages? And no, it doesn't add any extra euphoric attributes, over and above what are normally ascribed to alcohol.
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Dairy Cows Give More Milk When You Say Their Name
Turns out there's another big reason to go for milk from smaller operations - they have more opportunity to name their cows and talk kindly to them than factory farms. And that means more milk!The soothing feeling of someone
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Jam Jar Drinking. Cheers, Salut, Viva la Difference!
Noticing Bonnie’s recent post on the UK’s Financial Times suggesting brown bagging your lunch to work is a sound move in these uncertain economic times, reminded me of Amanda Congdon’s recession tip last month of drinking from
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Think Bottled Water is Bad, Could Bottled Orange Juice Be Even Worse?
You’d have to have been living under a rock for the past year, or perhaps exhibiting some willful ignorance, to have missed all the discussion about the environmental problems with the global bottled water industry. Here on TreeHugger, just last week,
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You've Got to Be Kidding: Organically-Certified 5,000-Year-Old Bottled Water
In the battle of the bottle versus the tap, tap water clearly wins out as a more environmentally-friendly (and cheaper) choice. Thus it's a little hard to know what to do with this new organically-certified bottled water by Swedish company Malmberg. On
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VitaminWater Sued Over Lack of Health Benefits
Coca-Cola, the maker of VitaminWater, is being sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest over alleged deceptive marketing practices. Those practices include using buzzwords like "definitely au naturel" and
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Survey: Do You Drink Coffee?
No doubt when Trevor's post Quitting Coffee is One of the Easiest Ways to Help The Planet and Yourself went up there was a collective "huh?" from everyone who has been reading that "Coffee has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of several common
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Superfood Mixes: For Those On the Go But Not the Faint of Heart
Recently I sampled several Superfood products from Amazing Grass. Superfood - those green, vitamin-packed food and drinks that look like someone just cut a swatch out of your front lawn, juiced it and served it up to you in
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Six Green Hangover Remedies
Some might say if you have a hangover, you might already be green (not the environmental kind of green, ahem). But if you want to cure that throbbing headache from last night's Christmas party or holiday get-together, take a
