http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/15/where-do-you-draw-the-line/ Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle Thu, 24 May 2012 22:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/15/where-do-you-draw-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10682 Sustainability Is Sexy : Eat. Drink. Better. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:01:58 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=833#comment-10682 [...] I’ve deservedly ranted about Starbucks a lot lately. (See Starbucks: Wasting Up to 6 Million Gallons of Water Every Day and Where Do You Draw the Line?) [...] [...] I’ve deservedly ranted about Starbucks a lot lately. (See Starbucks: Wasting Up to 6 Million Gallons of Water Every Day and Where Do You Draw the Line?) [...]

]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/15/where-do-you-draw-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-10350 Starbucks - Water to Burn : Eat. Drink. Better. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:02:32 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=833#comment-10350 [...] hate waste, but I hate greenwashing and hypocrisy even more. I recently wrote a piece on Ethos Water, a company currently owned by Starbucks which uses PepsiCo to distribute its water to wholesalers [...] [...] hate waste, but I hate greenwashing and hypocrisy even more. I recently wrote a piece on Ethos Water, a company currently owned by Starbucks which uses PepsiCo to distribute its water to wholesalers [...]

]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/15/where-do-you-draw-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-9398 Mary Jo Bergs Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:19:00 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=833#comment-9398 Stuart, Thanks for bringing this BS further into the light. Many people are 'too busy' to actually volunteer their time to a worthy cause, so they make a cash donation instead to make themselves feel they are contributing. Marketers have learned this and play on the guilt factor "why buy one water at $1.75 when you can buy this one at $1.80 and help a community?" Why at all? Get a reusable bottle, filter your own water and send $9/wk ($1.80x5) to a real charitable organization. You'll save money, the earth and help a community in a greater way. Stuart,
Thanks for bringing this BS further into the light. Many people are ‘too busy’ to actually volunteer their time to a worthy cause, so they make a cash donation instead to make themselves feel they are contributing. Marketers have learned this and play on the guilt factor “why buy one water at $1.75 when you can buy this one at $1.80 and help a community?” Why at all? Get a reusable bottle, filter your own water and send $9/wk ($1.80×5) to a real charitable organization. You’ll save money, the earth and help a community in a greater way.

]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/15/where-do-you-draw-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-8515 Kelli Best-Oliver Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:09:57 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=833#comment-8515 Agreed. Just found out an acquaintance of my husband's just started a charity that sells bottled water and donates the proceeds to clean water projects in Africa. My husband totally has cognitive dissonance over it because the project is so counterproductive in the grand scheme of things. He doesn't want to call his friend out for what his friend thinks is a worthy cause, but he also can't consciously support it, either. Agreed. Just found out an acquaintance of my husband’s just started a charity that sells bottled water and donates the proceeds to clean water projects in Africa. My husband totally has cognitive dissonance over it because the project is so counterproductive in the grand scheme of things. He doesn’t want to call his friend out for what his friend thinks is a worthy cause, but he also can’t consciously support it, either.

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