This week’s Do One Thing is about glass versus plastic, and is inspired by something my friend Beth at Fake Plastic Fish wrote about a while back on her site. As some of you may know, Beth’s site is about reducing our use of plastic, and she does an amazing job of detailing what [...]
Hurray! Another state will stop with the bottled water nonsense! San Francisco banned the use of city money to buy single-serving plastic bottles of water back in 2007, and now New York is following suit. Governor David Patterson signed an Executive Order that will phase out the purchase and use of bottled [...]
A few weeks ago I was in the grocery store to pick up some ice cream and came across a display for Arrowhead bottled water. As I always do, I walked by it paying no attention, but then a splash of green caught my eye on the packaging. So I snapped a picture [...]
In honor of Earth Day today, I wanted to show you what lengths some companies will go to in order to try to fool you into thinking they are actually concerned with the environment. As I may have mentioned here over the years, I get a lot of press releases every day, most of [...]
