1 3 Great Green Things Winter 2009

1. FLOW - Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. You can get it on Netflix!

2. Frontline documentary focusing on the crisis of large-scale pollution in our waterways.  You can watch it online: America's Poisoned Waters.

3. Sustainable Seafood Resources - Including a sustainable seafood supermarket scorecard and an activist toolkit which harnesses consumer power to spur change in grocery stores and their seafood suppliers.

4. Two excellent articles on pollutants found in our common household products.  Short, informative article about triclosan and why we should avoid it.  Disturbing, enlightening article on the trouble with flouride.

5. Earthlust water bottles.  I've got all three sizes.  The 33oz usually sits in the fridge and the others I travel with.

6.  3 Water Related Books:

Electric Water: The Emerging Revolution in Water and Energy

Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse

Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling.

7. Article on the ecological impact of the modern toilet.

8. Separating Toilets aka Separating Composting Toilets, popular in Scandinavia and probably our best existing option for toilet design, are explained here. Note: MIFSLA (Mix First Separate Later)

9. World Toilet Organization - Now that's a WTO to get excited about!

10. charity: water  I like the site and the transparency of this organization.  You can also find this link on the comprehensive list of resources here. 

11. PlayPump - An awesome invention that combines a merry-go-round and water pump.  Brilliant!!

12. In Liven - Certified-organic probiotic supplement.  Contains the complete lactobacillus family.

13. Expanding Earth Theory - Mind blowing! So this, if true, begs the question - where did the water come from?  New research reveals that bacteria create rain, perhaps they can form the actual water molecules as well.