A Sip of a Sigg

It was discovered that Sigg water bottles made previous to August 2008 were lined with an epoxy that had trace amounts of BPA. An ingredient that most people chose a metal bottle to avoid.


 The Sigg water bottle debacle made me think about green washing and how we make choices.

We never felt confident enough about the Sigg coating to put the bottles on our site, and have yet to find a best choice reusable water bottle to offer. But, if they hadn't hidden the truth about Bisphenol being the coating inside Sigg water bottles it still would have been a good choice when you hold it up against a daily collection of one-use water bottles. Any reusable beats a one use, especially for a product that is consumable many times a day.

Every day we make choices and sometimes the perfect choice hasn't been created or is unaffordable. We have to take heart that better choices are on the horizon and that we will make a more positive choice when they become available.

If you have a Sigg water bottle made before August 2008 that has the coating with BPA the company will voluntarily exchange your old bottle until Oct. 31. Find details at mysigg.com/bulletin

I am still lugging around my glass container which has it's own drawbacks and dangers.

Source Treehugger.com|Chicago Tribune

No Impact Man-Less IS More

When my friend told me about the No Impact Man blog I was interested, and then was grateful as I became more and more involved reading the near daily entrys. Colin Beavan’s blog posts were down to earth and inspiring in the simplicity of the experiment and how doable no or low impact living could be.

One of my favorite posts was about second sleep. With out electric lights you go to sleep when it is dark, but then you tend to awaken for a few hours later in the night. I spent some time looking this up and was intrigued to find that this used to be common. People would actually socialize for a couple hours in the middle of the night. It is possible this interested me because I am having my own personal issues with sleep right now, but it really made me think about how removed modern life has taken us from even our natural human sleep rhythms.

Nearing the end of his year long experiment his graphs on the relation of no impact and happiness really proved that his year had been a valid experiment with a positive measurable outcome. I believe that using less or none actually gave him the time to assess his happiness, something that the pace of modern life doesn’t allow.

I am looking forward to seeing the movie of his No Impact Experiment, and hope to read the book-as soon as I can get it from the library, or used.

source:No Impact Man|Wikipedia