Water Use

How a zombie apocalypse can make you more eco-savvy

At my house we’re kind of into zombies. Zombieland is a house favorite and we also like zombie books and The Walking Dead. Zombies aren’t great if you have a houseful of young kids but they are spooky fun for older kids and adults. What’s weird is that the more zombie stuff I watch, the [...]

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Are you wasting too much water at home?

Water use (or misuse) is serious business. Of course you should use reusable water bottles, but water use goes beyond that, extending into your home. If you’re concerned, that’s smart. If you haven’t given much thought to water use in your home, check out this cool How Much Water is your Home Wasting? infographic below. [...]

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Green New Year’s Goal – No More Bottled Water

Today we’re going to look a little closer at one of this year’s green challenges for eco-families – stop buying bottled water. WHY TAKE ON THIS GOAL? There are dozens of great reasons why you should quit buying bottled water. However, since we’ve already gone over that at Growing a Green Family, I won’t bore [...]

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Blog Action Day 2010 Wrap-Up: Water Issues

Today is Blog Action Day and the topic up for discussion is water. Following are my Blog Action Day 2010 posts: Water is not a never ending resource in the USA Green Movie Review: FLOW How Organics Help Conserve & Protect Water OR you can read past posts about water issues here at Growing a [...]

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Green Movie Review: FLOW

Being that it’s Blog Action Day and since the topic is water, I figured it’s due time I reviewed FLOW. FLOW is hands down one of the best eco-minded movies I’ve seen; and I’ve seen many. Honestly, I think this is required viewing. They should be showing this in schools, workplaces, and well, everywhere. About [...]

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Water is not a never ending resource in the USA

Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic everyone is discussing is good ol’ water. Conserving and reusing water is essential. While the oceans are large and the rain seems plentiful (especially here in Oregon), water is not a never ending resource. Water is a huge issue. According to Water.org: Nearly one billion people – [...]

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Bottled Water Causes Blindness in Puppies!

Oh. My. Tappening has got to be the best flipping anti-bottled water campaign ever created. Tappening was covered at the New York Times last year but I just learned about them today at elephant. Tappening targets bottled water companies with a simple tactic – they lie about them. One of their posters claims “Bottled Water: [...]

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Important Green Book: Bottled & Sold

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water was released in April, but being me, I’m just now hearing about it. Good golly. IF I only had the time to read all the books I wanted to read. Basically this book looks like everything I’ve known for a long time – there’s [...]

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Ten cool BPA-free reusable water bottles for kids + bonus art bottle

Read other popular Growing a Green Family posts! Subscribe to Growing a Green Family to see even more green family tips. We just looked at ten fab BPA-free reusable water bottles for adults but kids have different needs. Reusable water bottles for kids need to be absolutely chemical and BPA-free, easy to hold, unbreakable, light-weight, [...]

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Ten BPA-free reusable water bottles for adults

Summer is smack upon us and now, more then ever it’s a great time to just say NO to toss-away plastic bottled water. With this in mind here are ten awesome BPA-free reusable water bottles perfect for summer and all year round. Oh, and soon I’ll post ten more just for the kiddos so stay [...]