Green Options » Viro Pop http://greenoptions.com/tag/viro-pop Posts tagged 'Viro Pop' Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Bye-Bye Bottled Water http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/27/bye-bye-bottled-water/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/27/bye-bye-bottled-water/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:11:53 +0000 Gavin Hudson http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/27/bye-bye-bottled-water/ The following video is from our friends at ViroPOP. Head over to their website for more great clips with host Jessica Williamson.

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$268 bottle of water, anyone? Going once… going twice….

Just as growth in the US bottled water market is finally dropping off, Greenland has made the bewildering move to bottle and export 1 to 3,000 year old water that it will drill from icebergs. To add insult to environmental injury, Greenland will market its product as “sustainable.” Just how much marketing sense went into the idea to bottle the climate-induced melt from Greenland’s glaciers in plastic and ship it with a heavy carbon footprint stamped firmly into each “sustainable” bottle is anyone’s guess.

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