Green Options » Center for a New American Dream http://greenoptions.com/tag/center-for-a-new-american-dream Posts tagged 'Center for a New American Dream' Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:33:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Taking Action: A Pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/09/taking-action-a-pledge-to-break-the-bottled-water-habit/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/09/taking-action-a-pledge-to-break-the-bottled-water-habit/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:33:14 +0000 Becky Striepe http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/09/taking-action-a-pledge-to-break-the-bottled-water-habit/ Bottled Water
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The Center for a New American Dream is asking folks to spread the word about bottled water, and they need our help! They want us to talk about, blog about, email our friends and family about this pledge. It takes 900,000 tons of plastic and emits more than 2.5 million tons of CO2 to manufacture the number of water bottles that Americans purchased and then pitched in a single year. Not to mention that bottled water costs 1000 times what tap water does. Check out some more scary bottled water facts and The Center for a New American Dream’s pledge after the jump.

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