“Don’t drink the Water”
For your reading pleasure I have a included a link to “Don’t drink the Water”, by Dave Matthews at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAnYUwIhk0
We are 75% water and need to drink at least 8 cups of water daily to maintain our body health and beauty. But what type of water we drink and the type of container we carry it in can tell much about us to others. Do you drink tap water , filtered water or bottle water. How do you carry this water around with you?
All of us who are both ecologically and health focused have shun bottled water to avoid both the dangers of absorbing bisphenol A through polycarbonate bottles and to stop junking up our world unnecessarily. Go to the http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/recycle-plastic-water-bottles/ to see the extent of the plastic water bottle problem.
Those of us, who are more aesthetically sensitive, paid the price of a Sigg bottle to look healthy and chic.
The popularity of the Sigg bottles was always questionable as the concept of the plastic liner and the aluminum shell was both redundant (2 materials) and counter productive (plastic to replace plastic?) when we also had the choice of choose glass and stainless bottles. But who was I to question the well stocked shelves of Sigg bottles in health food stores and “enlightened” drugstores (serving upscale clientele). Even my bright young staff happily carried their precious water in Sigg bottles.
But what was the rational thinking behind replacing disposable plastic bottle with an aluminum bottle with a plastic liner?
Well Sigg just got busted by Adria Vasil, better known as the Ecoholic, at http://www.nowtoronto.com/columns/ecoholic.cfm Ms. Vasil reports that the Sigg bottle liners contain the much feared bisphenol A.
We can be angry with dishonest marketers, but it is more productive to question our own susceptibility to deception. We don’t need to be able to understand advanced science to intelligently contribute to the health of both the planet and ourselves. We just have to let go of the crazy consumer in us. When we consume, we can choose products for their honesty of function and their ability to leave a small safe footprint on us and the environment.
So if you want to drink safe healthy water in a healthy container – May I suggest getting a Nimbus water filter http://www.nimbuswatersystems.com/ on your kitchen tap and fill your delicious sweet water in an easy to clean stainless steel bottle http://greenbeans.ca/GB-KK.htm or a reused glass bottle from Voss Icelandic Water http://qpro.ca/voss.php
For your reading pleasure I have a included a link to “Don’t drink the Water”, by Dave Matthews at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAnYUwIhk0
We are 75% water and need to drink at least 8 cups of water daily to maintain our body health and beauty. But what type of water we drink and the type of container we carry it in can tell much about us to others. Do you drink tap water , filtered water or bottle water. How do you carry this water around with you?
All of us who are both ecologically and health focused have shun bottled water to avoid both the dangers of absorbing bisphenol A through polycarbonate bottles and to stop junking up our world unnecessarily. Go to the http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/recycle-plastic-water-bottles/ to see the extent of the plastic water bottle problem.
Those of us, who are more aesthetically sensitive, paid the price of a Sigg bottle to look healthy and chic.
The popularity of the Sigg bottles was always questionable as the concept of the plastic liner and the aluminum shell was both redundant (2 materials) and counter productive (plastic to replace plastic?) when we also had the choice of choose glass and stainless bottles. But who was I to question the well stocked shelves of Sigg bottles in health food stores and “enlightened” drugstores (serving upscale clientele). Even my bright young staff happily carried their precious water in Sigg bottles.
But what was the rational thinking behind replacing disposable plastic bottle with an aluminum bottle with a plastic liner?
Well Sigg just got busted by Adria Vasil, better known as the Ecoholic, at http://www.nowtoronto.com/columns/ecoholic.cfm Ms. Vasil reports that the Sigg bottle liners contain the much feared bisphenol A.
We can be angry with dishonest marketers, but it is more productive to question our own susceptibility to deception. We don’t need to be able to understand advanced science to intelligently contribute to the health of both the planet and ourselves. We just have to let go of the crazy consumer in us. When we consume, we can choose products for their honesty of function and their ability to leave a small safe footprint on us and the environment.
So if you want to drink safe healthy water in a healthy container – May I suggest getting a Nimbus water filter http://www.nimbuswatersystems.com/ on your kitchen tap and fill your delicious sweet water in an easy to clean stainless steel bottle http://greenbeans.ca/GB-KK.htm or a reused glass bottle from Voss Icelandic Water http://qpro.ca/voss.php
