Realizing Ordinary: reusable water bottles

Showing posts with label reusable water bottles. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Saving ourselves, saving the planet

Thirsty? A recent Harvard study indicates that when we quench our thirst with bottled water, we increase the bisphenol A (BPA) in our bodies two-thirds as fast as when we drink from a reusable stainless steel bottle. Taking care of the environment is so often linked with taking care of ourselves, don't you think? It's the Ordinary thing to do.

With gratitude to @MBHolistic for her/his 5/22 Tweet that highlighted the U.S. News and World Report article linked here.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Hold your own

Sometimes there's no easy alternative, but even if you don't care about the BPA levels leaching into your bottled drinking water, you'll enjoy this video by a hip kid on why you just might want to switch to your own reusable bottle.

His name is Gavin Erskine and he's my idea of an Ordinary kid.

My thanks to Oakleigh, where I first spotted this video, and to The Soft Landing. for their article on BPA in water bottles.

Ordinary Heroes Award

They are everywhere. In corporate highrises and in remote villages miles far from cell phone towers. They're sitting next to you on the bus. They're building schools in Africa. They're pounding the marble halls of Congress, seeking protection for our children, our health, our food, water, air and planet. They save heirloom seeds, plant organic gardens, teach the rest of us how to adopt sustainable lifestyles in our throw-away, buy-more culture. They save the forests, rivers and oceans without which we cannot survive.Their work brings the vision of the Village of Ordinary a little closer to reality every day. They show us how wonderfully possible it is to live in a world much like Ordinary right now. They are my Ordinary Heroes. I tell their stories on this blog frequently, because it is people like them, people like you and me, who are building Ordinary.

Realizing Ordinary