Annie Leonard brings us another The Story of Stuff. This time its about the chemical in cosmetics. Some of you may avoid the heavy chemicals in things like shampoo buying organic or all natural. Annie explains there are no official standards for cosmetics so companies like Proctor & Gamble can call anything organic.
Annie Leonard
March 22nd was World Water Day, a date set aside to acknowledge the importance of fresh drinking water. In reality, the amount of drinkable water available to all 6-7 billion people on earth is a minuscule. Only 75% of the world’s surface is water and only 2.59 % is fresh water. When you factor in how much is frozen in glaciers and icebergs it works out to somewhere less than 1 % accessible to everyday humans.
There’s a lot of talk about our carbon footprint but our water footprint is just as important.
Annie Leonard, of The Story of Stuff, released a video about the effects of of the bottle water process.
The thing that is most puzzling in the grand scope is that, as stated in a previous post, there are little things that could help even in a small way. Carrying a reusable water bottle rather than grabbing a plastic bottle (yes even the new post-consumer bottles) is a simple move.
When you learn how much waste actually goes into creating bottle for the little time it takes to get from our store to our trash perhaps you’ll rethink it.
