This week is all about WATER, in reference to Millennium Development Goal 7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability. During the Mercy Meets U.N. conference, a very dynamic speaker, Sr. Dierdre Mullen of Mercy Global Concern (the Sisters of Mercy's representatives at the United Nations) encouraged us to look at HOW we consume water. Is it from a plastic bottle that we paid for and may or may not recycle? Is it tap water from a refrigerated recycled plastic, reusable cantene? Surprisingly, the answer to this question deals less with the plastic aspect and more with how we are allowing water to become a commodity. Doing so limits the free access to water that all humans should share as a universal right.
Therefore, our goal is to try to break the habit of purchasing bottled water.
If you would like to find out more about Water and the World, check out last month's issue of GOOD magazine at http://www.good.is/departments/the-water-issue. If you would like track the composition of plastic in your water bottles or find out more about where those wasted water bottles end up, check out this reputable site:
http://waste-reduction.suite101.com/article.cfm/bottled_water_and_the_environment.
And if you find yourself in need of a cheap cantene with a green conscience, here is at least one place to purchase from:http://www.thegreenlogo.com/component/page,shop.browse/category_id,96/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,6/vmcchk,1/
Thirsty yet?
Thanks for these tips, Tara. Here are links to two other fun ideas brought you by public radio and television catalogs:
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2) Personalizable tap water carafes and glasses, available through the Signals catalog. (Go PBS!)
http://www.signals.com/signals/Item_Personalized-Tap-Water-Glasses-Carafe_HH7532G_ps_srm.html
and a fundraising oppoertunity as well... www.back2tap.com
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