Think Before You Buy

I just got an email urging me to look into "Green gifts for your green sweetie."

Curious, I clicked the link and was taken to a page promoting items such as the "fountain jet home seltzer maker" (complete with "a seltzer machine, bottles and gas cartridges so you can get bubbling".)

How many people do you know who are so into seltzer that the manufacture, transport and eventual disposal of an electronic device like this would offset their consumption of (recyclable) seltzer bottles?

If you're really concerned about using bottles, why don't you start a campaign urging companies to start using reusable bottles? Or better yet, just drink good ol'plain water? It's better for you anyway.

"Green" is becoming such a buzzword that companies are jumping at every little chance to call themselves "sustainable."

Don't buy into it!