Filters have an interesting effect on the environment. Even using the right Refrigerator Filter can make a difference. When people use their Aprilaire Humidifier, they should be careful to check the green rating on the filter. Too often, people simply buy the cheapest filter, regardless of its impact on the envir… Continue
Added by Cindy Fallsen on January 13, 2010 at 5:13pm —
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USA Green Media Now was founded with the mission of “empowering sustainable choices,” the Green Media now blog network reaches a broad range of the green market, including a major segment not served by other green websites namely employers, job seeker… Continue
Only about 10% of the 10 billion bottles of water sold
each year are recycled; the rest end up in our landfills.
Bottled water now outsells milk and juice in the… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on October 17, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Do you know what happened 159 years ago this Winter... back in 1850?
California became a state.
The people had no electricity.
The state had no money.
Almost everyone spoke… Continue
Detrimental health effects of soda consumption revealed in new study
The dirty little secret of the soda industry has just been
exposed by a huge new California study:
Drinking sodas leads to obesity,
and obesity leads to other deadly
diseases like heart disease,
cancer and diabetes.
Much like Big Tobacco once did with nicotine,
the soda industry and… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on October 2, 2009 at 2:38am —
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See: USA Today-Special Report, "How Safe Is Your Water?"
An examination of 65 of the 3,000 largest utilities found that cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Providence; R.I., and Portland, Maine are… Continue
Added by Rudy Pitts on September 29, 2009 at 11:58pm —
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U.S. Pharma Factories Dumping Huge Quantities of Drugs Into Public Sewers, Rivers and Waterways
(NaturalNews) In spite of claims by pharmaceutical companies
that they do not discharge their products into the water supply,
federal researchers have discovered that waters downstream
of pharmaceutical plants are more heavily con… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 29, 2009 at 8:19am —
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Smelly Algae Kills Dogs, Sickens People By ROBERT IMRIE, AP
Danger Lurks In US Waterways ~
Dogs Killed, Humans Sickened ~
Ugly Growth is out of Control
WAUSAU, Wi… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 29, 2009 at 12:41am —
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This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. The Breathing Earth simulation
Please remember that this real time simulation is just that: a simulation. Although the CO2… Continue
Added by Rudy Pitts on September 26, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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The End of Cheap Water? By Chris Mayer
The price of water is starting to
rise in a big way, at least in China.
I've expected this for a few years.
Water rates in China have been so far
below the global average it's ridiculous.
Especially when you consider the
severe water problems in China.
The Chinese are w… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 26, 2009 at 5:47am —
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Drinking water safety often appears in the headlines when a major contamination story appears and highlights the issue. But, then the following day another more newsworthy story appears, and the previous story is all but forgotten.
How sad as the problem is still there, and the health implications are according to many health experts quite real and potentially life threatening if you believe most of it.
You can understand my surprise when I came across an interesting fact, one from the Ralph N… Continue
Added by Jay Glasgow on September 24, 2009 at 6:27pm —
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<> Your Water Bottle Is One-Quarter Oil <>
Still want to drink it?
Because the truth is that a bottle of water
is up to 2,000 times more energy int… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 20, 2009 at 12:16pm —
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Five Cheap Ways to Save a Thousand Gallons of Water By Chris Baskind
Water is humanity’s most valuable resource.
Want to green your use?
Here are 5 ideas which cost next to nothing and
can each save a thousand gallons a year.
It’s been said so many times,
it has become a bit of a clich… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 20, 2009 at 2:02am —
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Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle
Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it.
Mary J. Blige won't sing without it.
How did a plastic water bottle,
imported from a military dictatorship thousands
of miles away, become the epitome of cool?
Anna Lenzer reports on water issues,
and was a research assistant for Grand Ill… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 18, 2009 at 9:35am —
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H2Uh-OhFrom Arrowhead to Volvic,
Fiji's not the only bottled water with a PR challenge
—By Jen Phillips
Sam's Choice (Wal-Mart)
Water comes from the… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 16, 2009 at 8:30am —
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<><><> Downstream Effects <><><>
America's market for bottled water is swelling like a river in a rainstorm.
The business is worth an estimated $4.8 billion annually
and is growing at a rate of about 10 percent a year,
closing in even on soft drink sales.
That may make dentists happy,
but it's also making environmentalists
and consumer advocates nervous:
Behind those labels depicting clear
mountain streams and pristine springs,
bottled water may be doing d… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on September 16, 2009 at 2:47am —
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Global water industry to reach US$1tr by 2020, says new research
Source: Business Wire
Nov. 20, 2008
Water is the one essential resource for which there’s no substitute, and rising demand threatens crisis. But executives and investors aiming to harness these trends have b… Continue
Added by Norbert M. Scholz on August 21, 2009 at 8:00am —
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