Boxed Water?

With the ongoing debate about bottled water and the amount of waste the plastic bottles create, one company has decided to sell Boxed Water.



The company states that 20% of the profits are passed along to reforestation (10%) and water relief (10%) while you sip on the sweet hydrogen/oxygen nectar of Minnesota and a few parts per billion of paper pulp.

What happened to drinking water from the faucet or, better yet, boiling your water and pouring it into a pitcher that would chill on the top shelf of your refrigerator?

I'm going on record right now to say that this year, you will see Woo Water for sale in your corner bodega and White Hen Pantry. [II]

Green: What Are You Doing?

As the world attempts to become more "Green", the question must be asked, "What are you doing to be more Green?"

Growing up, as a child of the '70s, there was Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood that promoted conservation and taking better care of the planet Earth, then in the '80s there were cartoons such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joe. Nowadays there are television commercials and signs that encourage us all to do our part and use less of Earth's resources.

Here we are at the end of 2008 and we see more and more advertisements promoting using less and reducing our Carbon Footprint. What this all means is very difficult to pinpoint, but there is no denying that global warming is taking place.

We do have to wonder what the future holds and will we continue to see more melting of the polar ice caps?

So, what do you do to conserve energy, water and overall waste?

Water upgrade

On Wednesday, in the mail, we received a postcard from DPW c/o Mass Installation,Inc., that stated that we needed to schedule an appointment so that they may install a radio frequency(RF) meter reading system.

The installation guy, Bob, was a nice gentleman, and worked amazingly fast.

While talking, I asked him what the RF does? He told me that the RF
send a signal to a "special box" that a meter reader can have in their
car and not even have to get out, as was typically done in the past.

Bob continued to tell me that on any given day, a meter reader can
physically read about 325 meters in a day. With the new RF installed,
the preliminary testing had one meter reader capture information on
12,000 meters in an 8-hour workday.

I thought the RF was amazing and then my mind turned to the meter
readers that may be laid off because with the RFs, there may be too
many of them on the payroll. We'll have to wait and see if the meter
readers are the next picket on a major intersection.

So, if you received a green postcard, don't throw it away! Read it
and call 1-800-933-1360 between 8 am & 5 pm Monday through Friday.

*The date and time you see written in is my writing. Yeah, I know my
penmanship is horrible.....why do you think I blog?*