Do you know how much money you can save annually by reducing wasted energy? Or how to do it? Do you know how to reduce the amount of water wasted each day in your home or office? Want to green your home or apartment, but don't know where to start? Never fear (drum roll please...) the EcoHouse is here!The Community Environmental ...

TapIt Partners With REI

We are excited to announce that REI has partnered with TapIt Water to help foster environmentally conscious living!  REI is a national outdoor retail co-op dedicated to inspiring, educating and outfitting its members and the community for a lifetime of outdoor adventure and stewardship. They also offer multi-level ...

Using Plastic Bottles to Build Schools: Hug It Forward

Plastic bottles are everywhere we don't want them. The roadside, the rivers, oceans, landfills. Littered areas reduce the quality of life for people all over the world. They're a nuisance and there are as many solutions to plastic waste as there are brands which produce them. Hug It Forward is a nonprofit which reduces ...
Now that the Golden Globes are over and we've come down from the fashion fix, the snark, and the surprises... it's time to look into detail about which nominees/winners support water charities!  Some may surprise you, some may not but here is a list of five celebrities whose charitable support goes to clean water and ...

Amazing PET Bottle Art

There is no shortage of artists expressing themselves in new mediums. One such artist/designer, Gülnur Özda?lar, has achieved the extraordinary by transforming ordinary PET bottles into the delicate forms only found in nature. Looking at her creations, one thinks of microorganisms, flowers, jellyfish, anemones. ...

A (Transparent) Birdhouse For Your Soul

Plastic is called precisely that because of its malleability - most importantly, it doesn't have to end up as waste! Portuguese art collective, Colectivo da Rainha created a variety of re-used plastic products for project reMix - a call to social innovation. They created the birdhouse just by heating and remolding ...

Bottled Water In The News (But Not On The Store Shelves)

 Recently, we mentioned the bottled water ban at University of Vermont's campus. It officially went into effect as of Jan 1st.  Since it was enacted the university has received much praise, even from Coca Cola. Coke's representative, David Larose, made a statement in yesterday's Boston Globe that ...
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Andy Rooney on Bottled Water
In his last days at 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney did a great little piece on bottled water.
 
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Whole Foods Market  has joined TapIt in the DC metro area to offer free water refills. 

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