From Guest Blogger Lillian Connors: Bottled Water–Enemy of Both Your Wallet and Environment
We live in the world where plastic can be found pretty much anywhere. More than often, people neglect the negative side-effects of plastic bottles. To make things even more troubling, we drink water from plastic bottles every day. This is a serious issue for not only was that water bottled long time ago, but it was stored and transported in a plastic container and potentially exposed to contamination due to the change of temperature. Listed below are several reasons why we shouldn’t drink bottled water. (more…)
According to the Writer’s Almanac: 
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. President has generated considerable hand-wringing among environmentalists, and it seems to become more intense with each passing nomination of a right-wing extremist to a cabinet position, and each tweet from the president-elect himself suggesting something blatantly unconstitutional. 
A colleague in New Zealand enthusiastically shared this post on his Facebook page, then emailed it to everyone he knows:
I’ve written several times over the past seven years about 
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers pushes back on my theory that the peak oil theory is wrong. He writes, Rather, the time table is much longer than originally thought. Instead of being 20 years or so, it may be 200 years or so. Obviously that has significant implications.
A colleague in Oklahoma writes: Thought you might find this 
For companies in many industries, finding the best wastewater treatment system for remote sites is like winning the lottery – it’s what you want, but doing it isn’t always easy. Working in fragile ecosystems and extreme environments where water is at a premium, companies have to ensure often complex and difficult effluents are treated effectively, efficiently and economically. 
If serious problems like global warming and the devastation of natural ecosystems are to be averted, changes must be made. One way to accomplish that is by moving towards a green philosophy for manufacturing. People still need products, and manufacturing supplies workers with employment. However, manufacturing doesn’t have to pollute the earth in the process. Below is an overview of a few of the renewable manufacturing methods that can create a cleaner earth. 
From today’s Energy News:
