Apparently, Kabbalah Water will heal us and Bling Water will define us. At the Bling H20 website, Bling Water “creator” Kevin Boyd describes noticing on Hollywood studio lots that “you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water they carried.” First of all, didn’t god create water?

The advent of bottled water sent our already wasteful consumer culture into pollution overdrive and it’s a tremendous task to put the brakes on the momentum of this waste. Here is a list of plastic bottle fun facts that put the magnitude of this pollution into scope...
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Barack Obama has named Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his Vice Presedential nominee.  The Senator certainely has the experience and foreign relations credentials to support the team...but is he a greenie?  Read this story to find out where Senator Biden stands on the environment.
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The Panhandle Bandshell built in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park is built from nearly all reclaimed/repurposed materials. With the goal of educating about recycling, creating a free performance space, and installing a working piece of art the Bandshell truly wears many hats.

Remember our post about paying to sleep in an old drain pipe? Well now next time you go to London, you can sleep in an old shipping container. Travelodge is getting their recycle on with this hotel made completely of old shipping containers...

These days, there's tons of stuff to avoid...seafood with mercury...produce covered in pesticides...chemicals in cosmetics. But how do you keep it all straight? Have no fear. Green pocket guides (or wallet guides or cell phone accessible guides) can be your back up when you forget what's good for you and what's not.

With ye olde cobbler long dead (re-soling Jesus’s Birkenstocks in forgotten profession heaven) and cheap production methods shortening the lives of shoes, Americans have gotten into the habit of pitching worn out (or simply undesired) kicks and buying new ones. Shoe-shopping has become something of a fetish, a joke, an emblem of the spoiled housewife who fills her emotional void with Italian suede.

Built in 1896, and named for the Brazilian seaport at the mouth of the Amazon, the Belem originally shipped chocolate in its hold from Brazil to France. At 170ft its first shipment of wine from Languedoc France to Dublin this February carried 60,000 bottles of fine wine saving an estimated 140 grams of carbon emissions per bottle.

I took a walk in beautiful downtown Ottawa this afternoon and came across this container that separates garbages, plastic bottles and recyclables. It’s really nice to see that somehow they do try to recycle but whats wrong with this is there’s maybe only one of those per building blocks.