Bottled Water – The New Great Pollutant

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Bottled Water – The New Great Pollutant Environmental groups across the globe have been sounding the alarm for several years now regarding the health and environmental dangers of the popular bottled water trend. The environmental danger is in both the …

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Plastic Ocean ~ Captain Charles Moore

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How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans In 2009, a U.N. joint commission estimated that 6.4 million …

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MIDWAY – A Film By Chris Jordan

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The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies …

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Please… Rethink Plastic

As you all know, I am an avid supporter of Plastic Pollution Coalition. I do my part by buying as little plastic as possible, I do not drink bottled water, and all the plastic that we do use in our …

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California Attorney General Sues Companies Over False Biodegradable Claims

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LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general’s office on Wednesday sued three companies over allegations they misled consumers by marketing plastic water bottles as biodegradable. The lawsuit – said to be the first government action to enforce the state’s environmental …

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Environmental Group Sues Glacier for Consumer Fraud

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Glacier Water Services, the largest seller in California and the U.S. of filtered water from vending machines, claims its machines dispense chemical-free drinking water. But the first statewide tests of vended water for chemical contaminants found that one-third of Glacier …

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Digest Your Water Before You Drink It! – Water Is Life Blog

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Readers Digest, that is!  This is a photo of David Green and longtime Multi-Pure Master Builder Ron Kafker, sharing a copy of the August 2011 Readers Digest.  The lead article is called “How Safe is Our Water?”  It focuses on …

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Plastic Pollution – Can we make a difference?

Plastic is forever Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small …

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Refuse Disposable Plastics – Plastic Pollution Coalition

Take The REFUSE Pledge!  Disposable plastics are the greatest source of plastic pollution.   Plastic bags, straws, bottles, utensils, lids, cups and so many others offer a small convenience but remain forever.  REFUSE disposable plastics! Follow the “4 Rs” of sustainable …

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Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets

Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature …

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Plastic – A Cancer In Our Environment

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Plastic – A Cancer In Our Environment- Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue Silently spreading, leaching toxins, maiming and killing, plastics, the darling of modern society because of their versatility and heretofore low cost, are beginning to show their true colors. Derived …

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Dire forecast of marine life catastrophe – San Francisco Chronicle

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The world’s oceans are degenerating far faster than predicted and marine life is facing extinction due to a range of human impacts – from overfishing to climate change – a report compiled by international scientists warned Tuesday. The cumulative impact …

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Wasting Energy The Plastic Way

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Wasting Energy The Plastic Way by Dale Y the Green Guy The biggest energy wasting substance on our planet is……wait for it…….plastic! That’s right, plastic. For all the good that comes from plastic substances, there is more bad about it …

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The Cost of Bottled Water – Is it worth it?

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Over half of Americans drink bottled water, spending 240-10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they do for tap water, a trend largely fueled by the belief that bottled water is safer and healthier than tap water. Is …

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Use Less Plastic!

Use Less Plastic from TakePart on Vimeo. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists today, and much of this plastic has traveled from our hands to our oceans. The most important thing you can do is use less plastic. …

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ARE YOU STILL DRINKING BOTTLED WATER?

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Contestant #1 in our blog contest: Article by Jay Glasgow 60+ Million Plastic Bottles enter  our Oceans, Bays & Rivers every year!     Monday, February 21, 2011 Jay Glasgow Drinking Water Containers – Fashionable & Eco-friendly? You would think there’s not …

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