Archive for the ‘Water’ Category

Bottled water may seem harmless, but perhaps that’s because you haven’t thought of what “spring water” really means.

You probably thought you were free to carry your groceries home any way you wanted, but you were wrong. You must use plastic. Case closed.

Honestly, what WERE we thinking?

What can the Cookie Monster teach us about conservation?

What would the Chernobyl disaster, the Gulf oil spill, or the floods in Pakistan look like in your home town?

Solving the mystery of my doubled water bill would’ve been easier if I had a way to monitor my usage. I smell a conspiracy….

The nation is up in arms over the Gulf oil spill, but is there an even greater environmental catastrophe on the other side of the world and at the end of oil’s life cycle?

We’ve top-hatted, top-killed, used robots, hair, floating booms, and tried to stuff the well head with garbage, golf balls, sludge, cement, and Kevin Costner. It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad.

You’ve spilled some food, and don’t know whether it’s better to clean the mess with paper towels or a kitchen sponge. The embodied energy of simple decisions may surprise you.

TweetToday, a juxtaposition of two very related, but conflicting “strategies” regarding our attempts to extract oil from under the ocean. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll know that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, killing 11 people before sinking into the ocean.  Now, the [...]