Break the Bottled Water Habit, Win a Prize and Cut Your Carbon
When you want pure, healthy drinking water, you should reach for bottled water, right? Surprisingly, on neither a personal nor a global level are you making a healthy choice.
For each gallon of water bottled, two gallons are wasted; producing the plastic wastes the energy equivalent of a quarter-bottle’s worth of oil. And what’s in the bottle could just be tap water.
New American Dream and Corporate Accountability International is asking you to think about where the water in that bottle came from, where the plastic is going, and take the Break the Bottled Water Habit pledge(water.newdream.org) and drink to a healthy ecosystem.
During October, make a conscious choice to slake your thirst without drying up our planet’s resources. In addition to benefiting the environment, participants will have a chance to win a free condo for a week at a ski resort in Idaho. Visit the website (water.newdream.org now to get started.
October 13th, 2008 - 7:34 am
I can’t even remember the last time I bought a bottle of water… Of course, we hardly ever go anywhere, and at home we just use glasses…
October 13th, 2008 - 4:14 pm
I never got into the whole bottled water thing. It always seemed odd to me that people were lugging around water every place they went. I’m so glad that doctors now say that we don’t need to be super hydrated, that we should drink when we are thirsty. Simple.
October 14th, 2008 - 1:54 pm
FYI, the redirect URL on your old page has a type-o.
October 17th, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Wonderful post and a good thought to take into consideration. Great tips here.