I just read your blog post at 5 minutes and I have to tell you I am having the same deliema. My son’t 3rd birthday is coming up in September and we will be very “green” on our end. But, How do I get it across that we just don’t need any more plastic tool kits without sounding rude…

Changing the world starts with changing our daily habits, and one habit that urgently needs to be changed is people’s consumption of bottled water. It’s ridiculous that countless amounts of oil and energy are used to sell WATER when great tasting, healthy water is available free from the tap! I think you should write another story about this issue. One great place to start is tappening.com, which includes important facts about bottled water use, and this video describing the bottles the company sells to promote drinking bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVM3mY3gMpg