What's the first thing that hits me? Man, this guy is in good shape! The second thing? This is the President? Seriously, when was the last time we had...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media
If newspapers are to have a viable future, people need to be convinced that the information they get in those products is superior to the information they get on the Internet.
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 01.09.2009 | Style
No need to hunt down the most distinctive artisanal cheese: Your new gastronomic thrill will be finding pork at 49 cents a pound. Agonizing over whether to get divorced? Don't bother, you can't afford it.
Rachel Cernansky | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green
New York City will save two million dollars if an upcoming bill succeeds in banning the municipal government from buying bottled water for its office buildings, say the bill's proponents.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green
The majority of households spend between a fourth and a third of their grocery budget on junk, and empty calories. That's a lot of money that could be used on other more nutritious groceries.
Karen Dionne | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Recently, governors and legislatures... approved the Great Lakes Compact, a landmark agreement that bans the sale and diversion of water outside the region.
New York Times | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
As consumers hunker down to cope with hard economic times, an environmental group in Washington has offered a suggestion for saving money: Get your wa...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
Every little bit counts in a strained household budget. These tips offer ways to go green while reducing costs. Tip #1: Cut back on disposable paper ...
AP | JEFF DONN | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green
Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an e...
EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
I'm not sure why we need two dozen campaigns to fight against buying what already comes out of our faucets for free, but I have this nagging feeling t...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.28.2008 | Green
The Fiji flap is a surreal poster-child for the global trafficking in bottled water. Ten local bottlers (#1 is Fiji Water) fill Chinese-manufactured b...
Simran Sethi | Posted 09.26.2008 | Green
Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the life and death of everyday things. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. In...
Elizabeth Royte | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
It's easy to be disdainful of bottled water if you've got no problem with tap -- but more than 29 million people's drinking water missed the mark on either health or reporting standards.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green
It's really cool to be able to look around and actually see that you are part of a new era in design.
Diane Francis | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green
Bottled water is a joke, one of the biggest consumer and taxpayer ripoffs ever. I applaud California A.G. Jerry Brown who said recently that he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California by Nestle.
Graham Hill | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
These astonishing figures show that tap water is hands-down the greenest and most responsible choice.
Graham Hill | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green
I don't promote bottled water, but the plane is a place where it actually might make sense. At the end of one long-haul flight you can easily find yourself with five one-time use plastic cups on your hands. Five!
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living
From sea to shining sea, we've taken water for granted while spilling blood for oil, even though water's by far the more precious commodity.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living
Like every other lazy (and/or honest) human being out there, I'll gladly take the easy way over the hard one any day. So when I happened upon the utte...
Forbes Traveler | Janice Kleinschmidt | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business
A few months ago, Madonna's pal let it slip that the Material Girlfriend spends $10,000 each month for water blessed by Kabbalah rabbis. Other celebri...
New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
Things must be really tough when Wall Street's most profitable investment bank starts cutting perks. Thirsty traders at Goldman Sachs now have to spr...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living
Few things boil my blood like the disposable plastic water bottle. This thing stinks--literally! Go on, smell that oil-derived polyethylene. There ...
Treehugger | Collin Dunn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
First San Francisco banned it. Then Chicago started taxing it. Now, the city of Seattle is taking action against bottled water; last week, Mayor Greg ...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Now that I've had my champagne, sung "Auld Lang Syne," and figured out how I got home Monday night, it's time to write some New Year's resolutions. Gi...
New York Times | CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Fiji Water, with annual sales of about $150 million, is but a drop in the bucket of the $15 billion domestic bottled-water industry. But little Fiji c...
Chelsea Green | Dennis Pacheco | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green