The water fountains get turned off in the winter --- I think it's concern about freezing pipes, but there is no water available from them during our runs til about April. Vancouver, UBC, Burnaby, North Shore is all the same.
Like I said on your Twitter, I agree that banning water will not eliminate plastic bottles, it will simply promote other beverages. There has to be a better solution!
moneca
· 9 months ago
glad to know that i am not along in writing about plastic issues, just because it affects the health of all humanity as well as pollutes the environment.
yes it is nasty and until people understand that money does not equal good. the companies can continue to justify their bottom line and we are the mutated product of their experiments.
i study health. it is hard enough to stay healthy without the lies that companies design. to use up oil in the fifties, the r/d people in the 50's came up with plastics. have you seen a cbc doc on how plastic was invented. the show made me livid as well as sick to my guts. big business from the days of the 'mad men' days, created the mess we are in now. it will be our kids that will have to suffer the ramifications.
i am doing my best to not be the ostritch, head in the sand. it is really a tough hill to climb but really there is no other path to go now. there is a finite end to the whole equation. as a mother, i have to do my bit to keep the information flowing.
buzz
· 9 months ago
thanks Moneca. I did attack BPA in baby bottles pretty hard last year.
and if you end up using the wrong refillable water bottle, guess what you end up with?
i still think banning the water bottles creates a serious health risk with a minimal environmental benefit.
moneca
· 9 months ago
i am a dealer in ionic alkaine water filters. i sell a system that is the best that i have found. i drink only from glass bottles. i would stick my head under a water fountain or tap rather than drink from plastic bottles. i think that my body knows dirty water better than plastic water. still the chorine and florides are poisons that are dumped into the water systems to prevent bacterial issues so i don't drink from taps too often.
i have been doing this for a year now. until i got this system, i was drinking from a reverse osmosis system, using a nalgene bottle for over 10 years. i was so disappointed that i wasn't doing the best for myself but i had the information that i had then and now i have the information that i have now.
it is better to have done my best and when given the best for now, change.
it is hard enough to fall into the present pleasures but eventually we all pay a price for too much of a good thing. sugar leads to diebetes, meat leads to chorestral and plastic leads to xenoestrogen endocrine. too much sex in the wrong places leads to std. etc.
what to do? do your best to figure it out.
moneca
· 9 months ago
ps, there is a plastic waste dump the size of two texases or the size of western europe floating in the ocean. every bird, fish and turtle in the ocean are full of plastic pieces that will interfere with their digestive system as well as their reproductive system.
so every piece of fish we eat now has plastic contaminants as well as mercury toxins. it is an incidious cycle. untill we can educate people to not just throw their trash into the street, we must do what we can to educate them that this has consequences. just as cigarettes were taught to be unhealthy, we must teach that plastics are also unhealthy.
as for your comments on the sport drinks that are still on the shelf...when they can pipe that stuff through into a fountain like willy wonka and the chocolate factory, we must start with the water. people must realize the money that is made from making them diabetics, first for the cola companies then by the medical as well as the pill maker companies.
be well, take care.
buzz
· 9 months ago
@Pool88 they need to leave the water fountains on year round. too often they're broken or inoperable when i'm doing my runs.
Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
· 9 months ago
I've been thinking about adecuate policy designs to avoid exactly what Ryan is suggesting will happen (a shift from bottled water to soft drinks). Green taxation seems like a good enough recourse, but it merits further inquiry. If we had enough good water supply at facilities like parks and so on, I am guessing more people would be encouraged to drink water from the tap. The photo you included is quite graphic.
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Like I said on your Twitter, I agree that banning water will not eliminate plastic bottles, it will simply promote other beverages. There has to be a better solution!
yes it is nasty and until people understand that money does not equal good. the companies can continue to justify their bottom line and we are the mutated product of their experiments.
i study health. it is hard enough to stay healthy without the lies that companies design. to use up oil in the fifties, the r/d people in the 50's came up with plastics. have you seen a cbc doc on how plastic was invented. the show made me livid as well as sick to my guts. big business from the days of the 'mad men' days, created the mess we are in now. it will be our kids that will have to suffer the ramifications.
i am doing my best to not be the ostritch, head in the sand. it is really a tough hill to climb but really there is no other path to go now. there is a finite end to the whole equation. as a mother, i have to do my bit to keep the information flowing.
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/10/17/canad...
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/05/29/canne...
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-u...
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/04/24/have-...
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/04/17/baby-...
http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2008/04/16/what-...
and if you end up using the wrong refillable water bottle, guess what you end up with?
i still think banning the water bottles creates a serious health risk with a minimal environmental benefit.
i have been doing this for a year now. until i got this system, i was drinking from a reverse osmosis system, using a nalgene bottle for over 10 years. i was so disappointed that i wasn't doing the best for myself but i had the information that i had then and now i have the information that i have now.
it is better to have done my best and when given the best for now, change.
it is hard enough to fall into the present pleasures but eventually we all pay a price for too much of a good thing. sugar leads to diebetes, meat leads to chorestral and plastic leads to xenoestrogen endocrine. too much sex in the wrong places leads to std. etc.
what to do? do your best to figure it out.
so every piece of fish we eat now has plastic contaminants as well as mercury toxins. it is an incidious cycle. untill we can educate people to not just throw their trash into the street, we must do what we can to educate them that this has consequences. just as cigarettes were taught to be unhealthy, we must teach that plastics are also unhealthy.
as for your comments on the sport drinks that are still on the shelf...when they can pipe that stuff through into a fountain like willy wonka and the chocolate factory, we must start with the water. people must realize the money that is made from making them diabetics, first for the cola companies then by the medical as well as the pill maker companies.
be well, take care.
see the article on 'the garbage patch'.
i will hunt down the doc on the evolution of the making of plastics.