Eco Factor: Structures created from recycled plastic bottles encourage youth to kick single use plastic water bottles. Drinking bottled water might keep you in good shape, but the millions of water bottles discarded every day in landfills are spoiling the shape of the environment. To encourage peopl...

In the battle of the bottle versus the tap, tap water clearly wins out as a more environmentally-friendly (and cheaper) choice. Thus it's a little hard to know what to do with this new organically-certified bottled water by Swedish company Malmberg. On the one hand, the company's got their prioritie...

photo by Mica Photographs Coca-Cola, the maker of VitaminWater, is being sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest over alleged deceptive marketing practices. Those practices include using buzzwords like “definitely au naturel� and “triple antioxidants� on the product’s packagi...

Bottled water is a bit like smoking: deep down, we all knew there was something wrong with it from day one. Environmentalism has been a widespread subject in our public consciousness for more than 30 years now. Did anyone really believe that getting our water out of 16-ounce plastic bottles would be...

Visit the offical blog and website of novelist, John Fenzel--author of the international suspense thriller, "The Lazarus Covenant."...

If there was ever a reusable water bottle that we'd pay $29 for, this would be it. The Kor One is made out of BPA free plastic, and can be opened with one hand while cycling or running or eating or wiping. Their website is exactly what you'd expect from a company that's selling a $29 water bottle an...

We should have had an inkling, two decades ago, that bottled water wasn’t all that when it turned out that bottles of Perrier contained the chemical benzene. But we didn’t learn our lesson, and in the intervening years, we became a nation of water-bottle addicts, rarely seen on city stre...

"So drinking bottled water is like giving my car a blowjob?" The question above, posed by copyranter in the title of an article panning Brita's new advertising campaign, got our attention. Brita's approach may be crude, (no pun intended), but such reactions will certainly contribute to achieving Bri...

"So drinking bottled water is like giving my car a blowjob?" The question above, posed by copyranter in the title of an article panning Brita's new advertising campaign, got our attention. Brita's approach may be crude, (no pun intended), but such reactions will certainly contribute to achieving Bri...

This past Sunday was beyond a blustery day in southern Indiana. It was chilly, by May standards, with wind gusts up to forty miles per hour. Little did I know, as I had called off work to watch the Cubs come from behind to get the sweep of the Diamondbacks, and wish my mom a happy Mother's Day, that...