9 Compelling Reasons to Stop Using Bottled Water

7th July, 2010 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

Check out this great ecosalon post with 9 compelling reasons to stop using bottled water. My favorite is “Redundancy: It takes a ridiculous amount of water to make one bottle of water! Some studies suggest that it takes nearly seven times as much water to make just one consumable bottle!” 

I have to admit, I found myself downtown this weekend for the 4th and I hadn’t planned ahead and brought water in a reusable bottle, and there were no water fountains nearby, and I found myself buying a bottled water because I was so thirsty- it’s something I need to work on by remembering to carry a reuable bottle with me when it’s hot out!

Bottled Water by elycefeliz.

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The Story of Bottled Water

31st March, 2010 - Posted by carsi - 4 Comments

Check out this energetic and easy-to-understand animated video about how the use of bottled water came to be so widespread and why it’s so bad for the environment. It also discusses how crazy buying bottled water is when you can get water from the tap that’s just as good or better than the bottled kind for much, much cheaper (bottled water is 2,000 times more expensive than tap water). This video is put out by the same people who did the Story of Stuff, which is another video I highly recommend watching, but it’s a bit longer. That video tackles our consumer culture and its negative impacts. Both videos are engaging and really enlightening, chock full of information that even the most green-conscious person will find alarming.