Plastic Water Bottles

"Refuse" Should Be Added To Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Refuse | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


The problem is simply too massive to be promoting a gradual reduction in single-use disposable plastics. Every 5 minutes, 2 million plastic bottles ar...

Water Bottle Deposits To Start This Fall In NY

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York


ALBANY, N.Y. — Mandatory deposits on water bottles are expected to start this fall in New York, while the Paterson administration considers chan...

Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green


Lisa Kaas Boyle

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

The BPA Diaries: An Introduction

John DeCock | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green


John DeCock

BPA is a symbol of a much broader problem--our need to evaluate chemicals before they reach the marketplace, and to develop safer alternatives to chemicals we already know to be toxic.

From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living


Frances Beinecke

I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer.