Green Links Whidbey Island

Green Links Whidbey Island starts the week with a story on sustainability and jeans. Did you realize that making one pair of 501’s requires almost 920 gallons of water and 400 megajoules of energy while expelling 32 kilograms of carbon dioxide? Here is the article by Amy Dufault in Ecosalon.

Britt Liggett writing for inhabitat talks about a new green living product. How about a water-filtering “Bobble” Bottle?

With Americans alone buying over $17 billion dollars worth of bottled water every year and using 1.5 million barrels of oil  to make those water bottles, a good alternative is desperately needed. The Bobble is perfect for your, “I drink bottled water because I know it is clean,” friends. The carbon filter on the Bobble is guaranteed to provide 150 liters of impurity-free water — which equates to about 250 bottles of water. Stick that in your Bobble and drink it.

Just click on the photo above; you’ll find out what and how the Deniers work. There is a must see video on the above photo link.