One of the season's big environmental stories has been tainted tap water. The subject has recently been paid much attention by lawmakers on Capitol Hill as well as by various media outlets.
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.27.2009 | Green
Preparing a sustainable meal can be a selfish endeavor; I guarantee you that it will be more fun, tastier and make for a good conversation at your table. However, it's also about our global community.
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Will Nick Kristof's below-the-belt exposé resonate in the Beltway, which suffers inordinately from an absence of balls and an abundance of little pricks?
nytimes.com | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
Italians are the leading consumers of bottled water in the world, drinking more than 40 gallons per person annually. But as their environmental consci...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.14.2009 | New York
The skies were grey and the event was Blue but guests at the annual Riverkeeper fundraiser were feeling neither as they mingled on the pool deck of the Empire Hotel to support the charity.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
Germans are brainwashed into drinking bottled water, and requests for tap water at a restaurant are often met with scorn, sour expressions, or downright refusal.
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water ha...
Hedrick Smith | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
Chemicals in consumer products are finding their way into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into our drinking water. Millions of people are drinking endocrine disruptors in their tap water.
Ina Pinkney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Chicago
For the last three decades, prominent restaurants have been used as a vehicle to promote this sadly wasteful product. And just like consumers, many of us have been lead to believe that what's in the bottle is somehow safer than what is in the tap.
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green
Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.
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...
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...
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.
Graham Hill | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
These astonishing figures show that tap water is hands-down the greenest and most responsible choice.
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.
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...
The Los Angeles Times | Marc Lifsher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Is the bottled water you drink any better than what comes out of the tap? Is it from the tap? Most companies that sell H2O hate the idea, but the Cal...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 12.22.2009 | Green