Environment: Today's Tidbits

(CBC) Buying bottled water is wrong, says Suzuki

I think that we’ve got to drink the water that comes out of our taps, and if we don’t trust it, we ought to be raising hell about that.”

Hear, hear!

Idea of the day: The Grouse Grind should be declared a NO BOTTLED WATER ZONE. Last time we hiked up we saw dozens of discarded store-bought water bottles littering the trail and hillside. Apparently the fitness fanatics could care less about the environment, as they zip up the hill, zoned out in their “me-first-and-only” attitudes.

(UK Green Party) Microsoft Vista: upgrades create ecological nightmare

There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista – except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use. That’s an offensive cost to the environment.

Future archaeologists will be able to identify a ‘Vista Upgrade Layer’ when they go through our landfill sites.