bottled water

Our buds & guest columnists over at Philadelphia Water announced a huge giveaway this weekend. Recently, I was chatting with friends about how insane bottled water is getting. We chatted about refusing bottled water when GPB when the website was...

Bottled water tastes SO much  better than tap. It’s cleaner, comes from mountains (aka the heavens) and is bottled up by major manufactures (such as Coca-cola, Fiji and many others – even supermarket brands) delivered to you, tasting better than water you...

It was a gorgeous day for Philly's 3rd annual Greenfest '08. There was fun live music, great food and an impressive showing from local vendors & organizations. For those who couldn't make it out this year, here's a rundown on some highlights & things I learned:

Glancing down a grocery aisle, bottled water looks so tempting. The beautiful graphics of green trees, exotic water from Fiji or France... it looks so healthy. It's easy to be duped by this misleading advertising. Growing up the Philly suburbs, I never bought water. Luckily, our tap was clean and my Dad didn't get the point in buying a typically free product. (Who knew Dad's crazy protest was actually helping the environment? ) The bottled water industry is an environmental termite. When you're drinking a bottle of water, you're consuming approximately 1/2 of that bottle in oil - talk about hurting your Carbon Footprint! Why is bottled water so bad?