Building Green's marketing guru, Lisa Walker, turned us on to Good magazine, which is woefully misnamed, as it is more than good... it's excellent. Good's philosophy revolves around "a passion for potential mixed with fierce pragmatism and creative engagement."
Being San Franciscans, we were charmed by a story about Ross Mirkarimi, the San Francisco County Supervisor behind the city's ground-breaking ban on plastic grocery bags. Who knew, for instance, that the city of San Francisco spends $8 million a year picking plastic bags off of beaches and out of trees? In the story, Mirkarimi acknowledges that the ban is "just a good first, small start," though an emblematic one. Although San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic grocery bags, others are poised to follow on with similar bans.
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To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love is not a strong enough word for how I feel about this magazine. I lurve, loaf, lu-uve it. I suppose that's over the top. We're talking about a publication here. It's just that I've been part of so many start-ups and new enterprises that I would be chubbing big time if I were part of this magazine's development team. It quintessentially conjures the zeitgeist of the new eco-consciousness - aesthetically, intellectually and politically. My complete rave is in my user blog elsewhere on the site. Just happy to share my new passion with my editors and all y'all.
Plastic Bags? -Look outside of the Bottle..
I'll say first off, I wrote this entire reply, and got dumped by either my server, or BGT's.. before I finished.. Which, should help to hasten and curtail my comments.
Something like one million, individual service "designer" labeled water bottles, get consumed in America alone, per hour. only 20% of those bottles get recycled, at best. Just one of those recycled bottles, can produce three of those grocery shopping bags.
BYOWB.. Bring you're own water bottle. I've recently seen, on line, some impressive models, With features like: A center freeze core, Tapered to fit base for most cup holders', and a multiple user friendly lid. That accomodates a sports top, a gulp port, and a straw port.
Something like 90%, of bottled water comes from Municipal tap water resources, plus some minor filtering.. Yet, you're paying bye the fluid ounce, ten times what you're belly aching about the price of gasoline. The French, saw you comming. Evian, spelled backwards' is Niave.. Makes me wonder what Dessani and and others' mean? Wanna go green, ween yourself off of "the bottle."
Continue to drive your SUV (senseably) .. Just commit, to get OFF the bottle..
Regards To All,
"Spudsrus"
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Spuds, your Evian comment has me in stitches.
Along those lines, I keep hearing that most cities' tap water is just fine-- put it through a filter and what's to worry about.
As for containers, we've been promoting this metal canteen (there are lots of others too) -- their description does a pretty good job of explaining why a metal canteen is better than plastic.
http://tinyurl.com/yraekz
"Klean Kanteen is a reusable, light weight, risk-free stainless steel container that does not leach toxins into its contents. Recent studies link toxins such as bisphenol-a (BPA) to breast cancers and reproductive mutations. Plastics migrate carcinogens including BPA during regular use, exposure to heat, and especially after cleaning."
I've also heard some not-so-good things about the company that produces the Nalgene bottles.
- maxmsf