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Help 999Bottles Become a Reality

Help Eliminate Plastic Bottles:  Support 999Bottles at KickStarter We encourage everyone to support 999Bottles at Kickstarter. If you are not familiar with it, Kickstarter is a crowd-funding site that allows individuals to donate or invest in creative projects of ideas they like. It is also the easiest way to pre-order your 999Bottles water bottle. To [...]

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President’s Cancer Panel: Point of Use Filtration Is Preferred

According to the Annual Report of the President’s Cancer Panel, “filtering tap or well water can decrease exposure to numerous known of suspected carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.” Key recommendations from the report: Unless the municipal source “is known to be contaminated, it is preferable to use filtered tap water instead of commercially bottled water.” Use Bisphnol-A (BPA) [...]

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Photos Capture Devastating Impact Of Plastic Waste From Pacific Gyre On Birds

Hopefully you know Chris Jordan‘s work.  If not, a visit to his site is highly recommended.  His masterful works breath life into mind-numbing statistics by graphically putting into perspective numbers our minds cannot meaningfully grasp. Certainly by now you’ve heard of the Pacific Gyre–the expansive flotilla of debris and plastic waste gradually accumulating in the [...]

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