SIGGnificant Bottles

The green question of the day is: what would you say are the most significant environmental moments in history?  No peeking now. Let's think. There is the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.  The founding of Earth Day also in 1970. The Wilderness Act in 1964 with David Brower. The Clean Water Act (with amendments) enacted in 1977. The Kyoto Treaty initiated in 1997. The debut of the Prius hybrid in 1997. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth movie in 2006. The signing of the landmark AB 32 greenhouse gas legislation in California in 2006. And let's not forget all of the changes individuals and companies are making. Those count a lot too.

In honor of SIGG’s 100th anniversary making colorful hip reusable aluminum water bottles, SIGG is hosting a SIGG100 web site dedicated to the 100 most significant, I mean SIGGnificant, environmental moments in history.  How did we do?  Let's check their list. Move that scroll bar down. And take a swig from your SIGG. All of this thinking can make you thirsty.

On the site, you can enter to win a trip for 2 to Hawaii to attend the Kakua Music Festival in Honolulu headlined by all-the-rage, green surfing rock star Jack Johnson and benefiting the Kakua Hawaii Foundation, which promotes environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaii. The flight is carbon offset I assume?

Plastic water bottles are out. Reusable water bottles are in. The famous Alice Waters of Chez Panisse dropped plastic water from their menu like a gourmet potato. Plastic bottles leach chemicals into the water, have a high carbon footprint, create islands of waste in the ocean, and consume millions of barrels of oil to make and transport. That is not very sexy. The mayors of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and New York are urging residents to drink filtered tap water and are showing plastic the door at their City Halls.

Want to apply the 1-2 punch to plastic in your life?  Carry reusable water containers like SIGG lifestyle bottles that show off your true colors.  Add a water filter to the tap at your home and office. Fill up, drink, and repeat. For large meetings and events, consider having filtered water pitchers and reusable glassware or compostable cups on hand.  Or give out SIGGs as presents. Now that is a green promo goodie that will delight your guests and be reused over and over again. Significant environmental progress has been made in the last 30 years, and in the last 3 years. I look forward to the upcoming months. There is much left to do, and we will have much more to celebrate I imagine!  www.sigg100.com