In Case You Needed Another Reason to Bring Your Own Bottle

Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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5 Comments on “In Case You Needed Another Reason to Bring Your Own Bottle”

Annie

Just think of all the money we’ve wasted on bottled water! Living sustainably is so helpful on the wallet, too.

03/23/08 » 10:08 pm »
ornery

what about all those pharmaceuticals leeching into the “best and safest water supply”?
search the NYT article- I’m too lazy to link to it.

03/25/08 » 9:12 pm »
Erin

Yeah, orney said…not to mention pesticides. Isn’t that why we buy organic produce?

http://www.sciencenews.org/art.....1/fob1.asp

I use a Sigg bottle and refill it from gallon or five gallon distilled or reverse osmosis water jugs.

03/28/08 » 9:14 am »
Erin

Also, there’s a BIG difference between “spring” water and purified water. Spring isn’t treated; purified is. All these sensationalistic articles act as if the are one in the same.

03/28/08 » 9:30 am »
Kim

The pharmaceuticals in our water – the phthalates – are these filtered out with a Brita pitcher? I doubt it. We are entering unchartered territory.

03/31/08 » 4:39 am »