Category: Article
My Water Bloggle turns 1 & I’m giving away a water bottle!
| April 6, 2011 | Filled under Article, Contest, General |
11 bottles later, MWB has turned 1! It was one full year ago when I decided to share a growing hobby with the world with what is still one of my all time favorite bottles – the KOR One. Wow. How the world of water has changed in a single year! In celebration of My… more
Recycling Environmental Institute: Drought
| March 27, 2011 | Filled under Article, Global, Information |
A Brazilian artist painstakingly sand “carves” inside bottles imitation images of famous bottled water designs as a way of bringing awareness to how scarce water will be in the future. I wanted to share with you the beauty of the work and also to keep on reminding us to use water wisely. Hope you enjoy… more
TapIt Water: Donors choose!
| February 8, 2011 | Filled under Article, General, Information |
I have mentioned the very cool organization, TapIt Water, on this blog before and now they’re out with something pretty innovative and interactive! The organization has partnered up with GiveLoop, an online fundraising platform, to create a donors-choose engagement where supporters and avid water sustainability nuts like you and I could vote through donations on where… more
Carcinogen found in 31 US cities drinking water
| December 21, 2010 | Filled under Article, Information |
A report released today by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group warned of an unsafe amount of Chromium-6 (Hexavalent Chromium) present in 31 cities around the US. For those that are movie/news savvy, Chromium-6 is the carcinogen made infamous by Erin Brokovich when polluted water inundated the town of Hinkley, CA and correlated with an abnormally… more
Junk food banned on campus? Psh…how about water?
| October 19, 2010 | Filled under Article, Information |
It only takes a couple passionate individuals to make a long term change and a ripple effect that bobbles the worlds of others. A couple students from Seattle University did just that. Seattle University became the first campus in Washington State and one of only a handful of universities around the States that decided to… more
My Plastiki
| July 11, 2010 | Filled under Article, Information, Plastic |
My Plastiki is a website recently featured on JoshSpear.com, aimed at sharing innovative and new ideas on how to tackle plastic and other forms of waste that we create with daily use by encouraging collective efforts on ways to help make the environment a lot less waste-filled! I absolutely love it that Plastiki is the… more
Lifehacker: Water bottle saves you money!
| June 26, 2010 | Filled under Article, General, Saving |
A very brief article on Lifehacker talked about how much money it could save you by carrying around a water bottle instead of dropping $2 – $5 a pop on bottled water that’s probably filled with the exact same thing coming out of that nearby drinking fountain! I wonder if anyone’s done an analysis on… more
FAST COMPANY: Ideas for water bottle consumption
| June 18, 2010 | Filled under Article, General, Glass, Information |
Yesterday, Fast Company featured a very interesting article about rethinking the way we consume water and redesigning water bottle consumption that can somehow tap into the emotional side of behavioral change and generate a more long term behavioral adaptation. Moving the Elephant, as the Heath brothers would call it in their book, Switch. It discussed… more
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