New Rules

[annabelle_blue]

Okay, I know that New Rules really belong to BIll Maher (on whom I have a serious brain crush), but I am going to install some of my own.

New Rule: If you regularly buy and consume bottled water, you do not have the right to bitch about gas prices.

This country spends millions of dollars each year to ensure that the water we get is potable.  Yes, it

Comments

[purplesquirrel]

Take a look at this hypocrisy from a bottled water company:
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2008/03/bottled-water-company-lectures-me-on.html

[annabelle_blue]

Holy shit, that's good. :) HA! Not to mention that the Sierra Club and others have gone on record saying that plastic bottles have more to do with ocean pollution than plastic bags!

[myfirstkitchen]

Petrol (gas) is currently averaging at the equivalent of $2.33 per litre here (a mixture of the price of oil and high duty on fuel to persuade people onto public transport). People bitch about it like woah, but spend £5 a day on lunches (including bottled water) and £3/4 a day on yer Starbucks etc.

The only place I ever drink bottled water is at the studio if we run out of the tap water we've taken in from home ourselves - it's in an industrial unit where there is no water that's really safe for drinking before boiling.

[annabelle_blue]

It makes sense to bring in bottled water in your situation. That's precisely how it should be. I don't how people do it. I mean, even airlines now serve from one large supply instead of small bottles.

[sweetinsanity]

I have to agree. I'll never understand not just buying a Brita filter of one kind or another instead of buying expensive, wasteful bottles of water.

[madame_chuchita]

I am a (deep breath) consulting environmental policy librarian. I have one high-profile client who wrote it into our contract that we will not use bottled water/paper plates/plastic silverware/etc. at meetings, nor will we be able to bill such things to them. There was also some big thing in the Twin Cities recently about restaurants that have decided to stop offering bottled water. It is really refreshing to see businesses and corporations adopt these policies because let's face it--they are the ones who are going to make the difference, probably not the individual consumer. That said, I refuse to buy plastic, use my own cloth shopping bags, and refill my steel bottle with tap water!

[annabelle_blue]

Ah, the chuch! :) You haven't posted a lot lately, so I am glad to see you. :)

I agree. It's refreshing to see that happening. The place I am at now also has silverware for everyone that are not disposable, etc. I wish you were one of the librarians I am working with at the new job. They seem cool, like you.

[madame_chuchita]

I haven't been on much because I've been so busy at work. I'm about to leave for back to back business trips (and I get to move on the one day I have off in between trips).

I'll be out in your neck of the woods for a wedding in July. Hopefully we can meet up for some Stop [# I can't seem to remember] pizza!

[annabelle_blue]

That would be awesome...Stop 50 in Michiana Shores! YAY!. And as always, if you need a free place to stay...

[aless02]

AMEN.

I hate bottled water and will only buy it if I caught out & about in a desperate thirst. Even then, I will re-use that bottle until it falls apart. Generally, I use my Nalgene, but sometimes it's too big to fit in my purse so I will then use an old bottle I have lying around.

The government here in the UK recently stopped serving bottled water in meetings, which I think makes a good environmental statement to other big businesses.

[annabelle_blue]

That's awesome. I bring my empty nalgene with me when I go the airport.. (why your post made me think of this, I do not know) and then I fill it up with fountain water after I go through security.

That's awesome about the government. It's important to make that statement, I think, and when they see how much it shrinks the bottom line, it makes fiscal sense too.