news worthy?
steves mom got us a subscription to 'the week' 'all you need to know about everything the matters' i'm not sure about it. but it's an interesting read. every now and then though you run across story's like these...
patrick swayze plans to become a rapper. the 53-year old actor...says he's been experimenting with rap rhythms for his next album...and is already known in affectionately as 'craz-e-dawg' in the hip-hop community'. is this for real? i feel like i just read an enquirer article...
in another volume though they feature this little bit of scary trivia:
'Our growing preference for bottled water is hazardous to the planet's health, says a new earth policy institute report. americans alone drank 7 billion gallons of bottled water in 2004, and the worldwide consumption has more than doubled in just 6 years. To bottle and ship a year's worth of bottle water to the u.s., companies such as pepsi and danone burn 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year. almost 90 percent of the plastic bottles end up in landfills, where they can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. In a world in which billions lack any access to clean drinking water, the report authors say, this is an absurd extravagance ~ especially since both taste tests and chemical analyses reveal there's usually no difference between tap and bottled water...The study says that bottled water costs 10,000 times more than tap water ~ and is often more expensive, per gallon, than gasoline.'
so maybe instead of purchasing that next aquafina (which is detroit municipal water put through a reverse osmosis process!) why not just fill up your trusty nalgene from your tap?
patrick swayze plans to become a rapper. the 53-year old actor...says he's been experimenting with rap rhythms for his next album...and is already known in affectionately as 'craz-e-dawg' in the hip-hop community'. is this for real? i feel like i just read an enquirer article...
in another volume though they feature this little bit of scary trivia:
'Our growing preference for bottled water is hazardous to the planet's health, says a new earth policy institute report. americans alone drank 7 billion gallons of bottled water in 2004, and the worldwide consumption has more than doubled in just 6 years. To bottle and ship a year's worth of bottle water to the u.s., companies such as pepsi and danone burn 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year. almost 90 percent of the plastic bottles end up in landfills, where they can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. In a world in which billions lack any access to clean drinking water, the report authors say, this is an absurd extravagance ~ especially since both taste tests and chemical analyses reveal there's usually no difference between tap and bottled water...The study says that bottled water costs 10,000 times more than tap water ~ and is often more expensive, per gallon, than gasoline.'
so maybe instead of purchasing that next aquafina (which is detroit municipal water put through a reverse osmosis process!) why not just fill up your trusty nalgene from your tap?
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