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Will Congress Stop Spending $860,000 Annually on Bottled Water?
According to Corporate Accountability International, the House of Representatives spends at least $860,000 on bottled water a year. That's almost $2,000 for each representative.
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Ask Pablo: What Is In Our Bottled Water?
Image Source: Woody Thrower Dear Pablo: I know that bottled water is bad for the environment but what about us? What is in our bottled water? Full Disclosure: The Environmental Working Group report...
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Crowd-sourced Drinking Fountain App Coming to Android Phones
A new project between Google and the Pacific Institute will help you find public drinking fountains in a jiff using your smart phone. The duo is building a new app for Android-powered phones that...
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Spin the Water Bottle (Cartoon)
"Spin the Water Bottle" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual
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Why Recycling Plastic Bottles Doesn't Help The Problem (Video)
Plastic bottles always suck, even if they're being recycled. That's because the energy it takes to recycle them is mind-boggling. It's no simple task to melt down all those bottles, and the plastic is...
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Confusion Reigns Over Plant-Based Bottles, Which Is Exactly What Coke And...
Amy Westervelt of Slate tries to get to the bottom of Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles, concluding that they "still damaged the environment." But she also caused some confusion and had a few...
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense...
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Coca Cola and Nestle Show Signs of Support for Improved Recycling Laws (Updated)
Of the 224 billion beverage containers sold in the U.S. every year, only about 29 percent are recycled. Companies have been blamed in the past for not doing more to increase that rate—but that may now...
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Removing Arsenic From Water With...Plastic Bottles and Nutrition Supplements?!
When we think of plastic bottles, we usually think of them as a serious problem tied up with our drinking water, not a possible solution for cleaning water for 100 million people. But researchers have...
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Why is Water from a Garden Hose so Delicious?
I posed this (age-old?) question on Twitter and Facebook today. To which one of my Environmental Studies colleagues replied, "the hose gives it taste." Ah, yes, the taste of childhood, of a hot summer...
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Grand Canyon Abandons Bottled Water Ban, After Meetings With Coca-Cola
The Grand Canyon was on track to ban bottled water sales in the park until Coca Cola registered its 'concerns' about the ban.
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The HydraDuo Water Bottle Stores Two Beverages So You Don’t Have to Choose
The HydraDuo water bottle keeps two beverages in the same container so you have options while on the go.
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Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water (Book Review)
Dr. Peter Gleick uncovers the complex truth to the bottled water industry, and makes a strong case for being realistic about our addiction.
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Join Author Peter Gleick for a Discussion of Our Obsession With Bottled Water
Author Peter Gleick joins TreeHugger for a live chat about the story behind bottled water and what it means for our culture and environment.
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Nestle Admits to Marketing Bottled Water to Minority Communities
Bottled water companies are found intentionally pushing their product in minority communities.
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Grand Canyon Reconsidering Plastic Water Bottle Ban, Could Be Implemented By...
About a month since the Grand Canyon abandoned a plastic bottled water ban in the park after hearing from Coca Cola, the plan is back on.
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Ask Pablo: Are Soda Makers Really Greener?
Dear Pablo: I have been seeing a lot of advertisements claiming that soda makers are better for the environment. Are these claims really true?
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Personal Water Filter Bottle Helps Fund Fight Against Global Water Crisis
A new refillable water filter bottle helps you not only fight against plastic bottle waste, but also helps to fund sustainable water projects.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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Reusable Water Bottle Tracks How Much Plastic You Keep Out of the Trash
A reusable water bottle lets you count how many times you refill it, so you know how much plastic you've saved.
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US Bottled Water Sales Hit New Record High in 2011
How did buying individual portions of water in plastic bottles become an acceptable alternative to clean and available public tap water?
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What Were They Thinking? USGBC in Connecticut Gives Award to Nestle Waters'...
The bottled water company responsible for profound and pointless waste of water and fossil fuels is praised for low flush toilets and white roofs.
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Water Bottle Keeps Cool by "Sweating"
A clever water bottle uses condensation to keep its contents cool.
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Beetle-Inspired Design Uses Old Plastic Bottles to Pull Water from the Air
A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.
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Lady Gaga Readies Her Own Bottled Water Brand
If suburbia is unashamedly back, I suppose it figures new bottled water brands wouldn't be far behind...
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Put a Bird In It! Plastic Water Bottles Recycled into Bird Houses
We could have a debate about whether we need water bottles in the first place, but at least this puts them to use.
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Premium bottled water being sold to rich ladies is special because "It's got...
Mike Judge's Idiocracy wasn't a comedy, it was a history lesson.
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Hypocrisy, thy name is Charles Philip Arthur George
The Prince of Wales' food company says "We aim for the smallest environmental footprint", then it ships bottled water to Dubai.
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Coca-Cola launches "natural" Coca-Cola Life.
After predicting that an Organic Coke would be the pinnacle of greenwashing five years ago, Next Nature Network reports that Coca-Cola has actually done it, launching a "natural" Coke called Coca-Cola...
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Guess how much Nestlé pays for a liter of water that sells for four bucks in...
You would think that if there was a drought happening that a water company would have to cut back its extraction; not in Ontario.
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