Consumer - knowledge, responsibility, rationality

Bottled water fresh from the tap

Saturday, 28 July 2007

CO: Water good. Bottles not good for the environment. Bottles + fancy water = premium prices. What happens if bottles are misleadingly labeled?

  • How many water bottles do you use in a week?
  • Do you know where the water comes from?

Contrasting approaches to labeling of bottled waters. Reported by Vinnee Tong, AP July 27, 2007. "New Aquafina labels: It's tap water"

PepsiCO Coca Cola

Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled “P.W.S.” The new labels will spell out “public water source.”

“If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do,” PepsiCo spokeswoman Michelle Naughton said Friday.

 

Dasani's Web site says that Dasani comes from local water supplies and is then filtered.

“We don't believe that consumers are confused about the source of Dasani water,” Coca-Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante said. “The label clearly states that it is purified water.”

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Teenage affluenza - video

Tuesday, 19 June 2007

World Vision has produced a fantastic video about the difficult lives of wealthy teenagers: teenage affluenza. The video is rich in satire, but it gets a little dark at the end.

Best Line: "This is my ipod. It's only 1 gig..."

 

 

So what can I do?

Try fundraising through mock famines: (Australia - 40 hours ) (USA - 30 hours ) (Canada - 30 hours)

Or

Think consciously about the things you consume. Take a big picture look at the problems you face in your everyday life. Is there some way you could help others?

 

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