From Is America’s $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry a Fraud:
A 2001 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) study confirmed the widespread belief that consumers associate bottled water with social status and healthy living. Their perceptions trump their objectivity, because even some people who claim to have switched to bottled water “for the taste” can’t tell the difference: When Good Morning America conducted a taste test of its studio audience, New York City tap water was chosen as the heavy favorite over the oxygenated water 02, Poland Spring and Evian. Many of the …

Earth Day is tomorrow and I don’t think enough people know or care about it. So I thought I’d drop a few pictures in that might inspire you a little.

(March 6) Greenpeace protests against bigger deforestation of the last years in the region of Santarém.
In a remote area of the forest, 120 km of Santarém, in Pará, inhabitants of communities in the region and Greenpeace had protested today against the deforestation. The group of 50 people travelled about 5 hours in precarious conditions arriving at an area of 1.650 hectares
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It takes you 1 second to get drinking water.
He has to walk 20 KM
Water is a Human Right.
Help us provide access to drinking water.

I can’t stop thinking that the ONLY reason that I run the water in the shower until it’s warm is for my own comfort and convenience. I’ve tried justifying it by insisting warm water cleans better. My only real excuse is that I’m afraid I’ll get hypothermia after a frigid bike to work. But when it comes down to it, It’s ONLY for convience and my own comfort.