Thursday, October 30, 2008
A few pics of the old place...
Because it's sentimental to all of us, I thought I'd include a few pictures of how great Grandpa Mac's house looks after all the work mom and dad (and Jason and Meg and Matt and Riley and Geoff) put into it. Nice Work!!!!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Break the Bottled Water Habit!
OK, so not all of us are bottled water fiends but I saw this and wanted to pass along these interesting facts (more of which can be found on the link below)...
http://water.newdream.org/
The following convinced me to sign the pledge to stop drinking bottled water :
Why you should take this pledge:
Everything we consume has a climate impact, but manufacturing and trucking water bottles to homes with clean tap water seems particularly wasteful. The Beverage Marketing Corporation reports that Americans consumed 31.2 billion liters of water in 2006 – nearly 9 liters per month for every man, woman, and child.
Manufacturing all those bottles requires 900,000 tons of plastic, the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, and emit more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. Trucking around all those heavy bottles emits even more greenhouse gases. Beyond the climate impact there’s the massive waste – 86% of water bottles aren’t recycled -- and water bottling is also, ironically, a very water-intensive endeavor. The Pacific Institute tells us that it takes three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water!
Kind of makes you think, eh?
http://water.newdream.org/
The following convinced me to sign the pledge to stop drinking bottled water :
Why you should take this pledge:
Everything we consume has a climate impact, but manufacturing and trucking water bottles to homes with clean tap water seems particularly wasteful. The Beverage Marketing Corporation reports that Americans consumed 31.2 billion liters of water in 2006 – nearly 9 liters per month for every man, woman, and child.
Manufacturing all those bottles requires 900,000 tons of plastic, the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, and emit more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. Trucking around all those heavy bottles emits even more greenhouse gases. Beyond the climate impact there’s the massive waste – 86% of water bottles aren’t recycled -- and water bottling is also, ironically, a very water-intensive endeavor. The Pacific Institute tells us that it takes three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water!
Kind of makes you think, eh?
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