The battle to stop a spill that started earlier in the month is still underway, and residents of a large city are buying up bottled water just in case.
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Photo by Aaron Fulkerson /CC I posed this (age-old?) question on Twitter and Facebook today. Photo by stephendepolo via Flickr CC Plastic bottles always suck, even if they’re being recycled. That’s because the energy it takes to recycle them is mind-boggling. It’s no simple task to melt down all those bottles, and the plastic is usually degraded in the process and can’t be used for food-grade products again The math is simple. According to Ozarka’s own claim, their tiny new label uses a third less paper than the old one, or a whopping 30,000 less trees. The new advertising campaign, intended to lessen the guilt of their customers, entice new customers, and win back customers who have moved on to less wasteful methods of hydration, inadvertently reveals the devastating scope of destruction that even the most benign piece of their product generates Photo: The Ewan via Flickr We may live in society that stresses equality between the genders, but when it comes to gardening , women seem to have an upper larynx. According to a recent experiment by the Royal Horticultural Society in England, tomato plants grow faster when they are crooned at. The sung-to tomatoes grew two inches higher than their unserenaded counterparts. Each American uses an Olympic pool’s worth of water annually. Photo Jonathan Ziapour via flickr. A country’s water footprint , as opposed to simple water use, is the total amount of H2O needed for the production of goods and services Yes, this is an actual photograph of Moscow. Via Wold Front Page According to a new report from the World Bank, Russia is screwed. And in case you hadn’t inferred, that’s not quite a verbatim quote from the report. When we reviewed a Pacific’s Terra electric bike recently, one of the commenters said, “Not very attractive but a cool idea. Photo credit: CafePress A little birdie told us—well, OK, it was Jacob Gordon —that CafePress has added SIGG bottles to its range of print-on-demand, user-designed clothing, stationery, and accessories. … Read the original: Sphere: Related Content |
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