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Wonder Why This Revolution Will Never Catch On

Here’s the sort of trend setting rebellion we would only expect to originate from Berkeley. Bye-bye bottled water. Hello eau de tap. A new trend is in the pipeline with some upscale restaurants ditching packaged H2O in the name of conservation. The bottled water backlash, which recently spread to the venerable Chez Panisse restaurant in [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, April 6th, 2007

Paper or Biodegradable Plastic, Sir?

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the plastic bag era, right here, right now? City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule if Mayor [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, March 29th, 2007