What is our obsession with bottled water?
In the western world drinking our water from the tap is sometimes saver than drinking bottled water.
Tap water testing is regulated and tests on for example E,coli in mandatory on tap water but it’s not on bottled water.

Some statistics:

• A bottled of Evian water at $1.35 could be refilled with San Francisco tap water once a day for over ten years before the cost would total $1.35.
• 30 billion plastic water bottles are thrown away every year. Plastic can take up to a thousand years to disintegrate and make up a big deposit of plastic toxic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
• Making bottles of water out of plastic takes more than 1.5 million barrels of oil, every year. That much oil could fuel 100,000 American cars for a year.
• It takes three times as much water to produce the bottle than it takes to fill it.

If we all would start using tap water and send all the water saved to Africa we can solve droughts and starvation of our fellow worlds citizen.

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I left it for a long time to watch the film The Cove. I had in mind that it would be upsetting and that I would feel helpless after watching it. Not knowing what I could do to help.

But there is the internet and social media in my favor with which I can spread the word and tell the world we have to change and act on Japans slaughtering of 23.000 dolphins every year.

We have to realize that by visiting places like Sea World and other dolphin shows that we are aiding in the dolphin trade.

This film The Cove should be shown in every school in the world and I would therefor urge every teacher and student to ask for it to be shown during your biology, science or social studies class.

Furthermore I would ask you to make your donation to the film makers so they can proceed in their stride to make an end to this massive slaughtering of innocent dolphins.

Do you want more information see the following websites: Takepart.com/thecove www.opsociety.org www.savejapandolphins.org

Two days ago I made several tweets about the Fisher School and their Green Experiment. This initiative needs extra attention.
The reason is that every school in the world should enroll in this experiment. It is the unique opportunity to form the minds of the students in saving the environment.
The students themselves then can get their parents involved.

John Rogers said in the YouTube clip about the school teaching the 3 R’s Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic and that they now added Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The school can be proud of what they achieved and they should be an inspiration for other schools to join the Green Experiment in order to save our planet for the future generations. 

More information can be found on: http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org

When I think of Hawaii I see beautiful beaches filled with white sand and bright blue water. An ideal place for snorkeling and swimming. I think of Hula dancers handing out Hawaiian leis to visiting tourists.

In other words the ideal location for a luxurious holiday.

But there is a downside to Hawaii  and that has to do with its location in the Pacific.

Hawaii suffers from plastic pollution arriving on the island daily and carried to the island by our Pacific ocean.

Charles Moore surveys rubbish on Kamilo beach Hawaii (most polluted beach in the US).
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/801849-the-tip-playing-havoc-in-the-heart-of-the-sea#ixzz17Sw8pHQm

Just take a look at this video footage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8639769.stm

What could help them is the machine from Japanese company Blest that turns plastic back into oil. The tons of plastic that comes ashore could potentially turn into thousands of litters of oil. http://www.youtube.com/user/theoceansrmine#p/a/u/0/DQPOEUe0J18