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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Inveterate culture jammers (and sometime GOOD contributors) the Yes Men have just decided to enter the upscale bottled water market. Their...
Looks like the bottled-water-as-accessory-of-the-evil thing has truly taken off (that, or the recession is making more people take to the tap)....
Enjoying bottled water is not as new a trend as many believe. In the Roman Empire, earthen jars filled with naturally carbonated water from...
The Corn Refiners Association appears to be taking a cue from Blackwater: After all that bad press, they are rebranding. Starting now, we are...
In our ongoing effort here at GOOD (Casey's Crusade, as I like to call it) to make you feel slightly bad about drinking bottled water, and as...

Can pond scum power the world?

After the TSA pats you down, x-rays your undies, and dumps your liquids, at least now you don't have to pay $4 for bottled water.
By now you've probably heard that the Nalgene you're carrying around is releasing plastic chemicals into your water each time you refill. Thanks...
Gothamist has a Q&A with Craig Zucker, founder of Tap'dNY, a company that purifies, bottles, and distributes water that doesn't come from a spring...
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump. Looks...

Good news: A new fabric called GreenWeaver, spun from molten plastic pellets, is being used for the graduation gear by a growing list of schools.
The Australian city of Bundanoon (or Bundy, as they call it-those Aussies love their nicknames) has become, it seems, the first city anywhere to...
In Concord, Massachusetts, an 82-year-old woman named Jean Hill, after hearing about the Pacific Garbage Patch, advocated for a flat-out ban on...

Congress bought $190,000 worth of bottled water last year. Let's buy them some water bottles so they can stop.

The market for sustainably-branded products is more competitive than ever. Bring on the buzzwords.
Jesus impressed his disciples by turning water into wine. Water sommelier Michael Mascha thinks water is miraculous enough. Supermarket shelves...
Prompted in part by Annie Leonard's new video "The Story of Bottled Water," the International Bottled Water Association released a video of their...
Last week, folks in Concord, Massachusetts voted to become the first U.S. town to ban the sale of all bottled water. The ban, set to take effect...
PepsiCo's Aquafina bottled water, which currently carries the cryptic label "Bottled at the source PWS" will soon spell out the acronym: "public...
Someone has finally invented a reusable carbon-filter water bottle. And no, they haven't messed it up with toxic BPA-laced plastics. This thing,...