Entry Posted March 18, 2009

http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html Chart of common household activities and common foods in low water use/high water use pairs. e.g. coffee–37 gallons, tea–9 gallons. Eating chicken instead of beef saves about as much water as making every other suggested change on the entire page! Dishwashers use less water than washing up by hand. 09:31

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Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials (abduzeedo.com):
… Vampire Energy Newsmap What does randomness look like? The Glocal Project Visualizing the Genome, Among other things Power Plant and more Google PageRank Explained How Much Water Do You Use?British Timeline Casualities of War The Sputnik Legacy 21 Ways to Visualize and Explore Your Email Inbox 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe Skyrails About the author Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabr …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

Unemployed Astronauts (www.unemployed-astronauts.com):
… environment — i.e. giving transparency. These things have to be presented easily digestible, so that it takes no effort to understand the points presented. To illustrate the sort of transparency I’m talking about, here is a cropping from avisualizationin GOOD Magazine on the amounts of water we use, directly as well as indirectly. For example, it takes up 1,500 gallons of indirect water use to create one pound of beef, while filling a bath tub takes approximately 35 gallons of direct water use. Visualized this way …

green LA girl (greenlagirl.com):
… ourselves further on this issue? And do you buy and eat California rice? Please share your watery knowledge — and questions — in the comments. Related links: GOOD illustrates where America’s largest cities get their water, andwhat the water footprint of your daily choices are. Top photo of a rice field in Sutter County, Calif. by calwest; bottom image via traumkrieger.de …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

luke.thunk.it (luke.thunk.it):
… Interesting visualisation of how much water we use (and could save) …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
… Toilet Upgrade Kit - FLUSH CHOICE is a water saving dual flush retrofit toilet valve kit that converts 2 piece style toilets to a water conserving, money saving dual flush toilet: a small flush for liquid waste and a big flush for solid waste. >>Walk this way- "Making the right choices to reduce your water footprint." >> Santa Monica Water Efficiency Programs & Rebates - Water conservation rebates for Santa Monica water customers. Rebates available for high efficiency clothes washers and toilets. Also includes inform …

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… Ubuntu (comme moi même) voici les 9 choses à faire après avoir installé Ubuntu 9.04. Bruce Lee savait il jouer au ping pong? oui. La preuve en images: Et pour finir, deux petits liens écologiques (en anglais): -Comment réduire sa consommation d’eau ?- 8 trucs contre la poussière dans la maison © ericreboisson pour Eric Reboisson's Blog, 2009. | Permalink | Aucun commentaire | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Links Awards Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh …

Sustainable Works (sustainableworks.blogspot.com):
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Living a Locally Supported Lifestyle (blog.locallectual.com):
… eating red meat once she learned of the environmental impact of the beef industry. (The graphic below maps out a “water footprint” for your day. The beef bar is staggering.) And, of course, there are animal lovers who just find it cruel.Good MagazineGood Magazine (click to enlarge) We can all benefit by choosing vegetarian, even just now and then. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health launched a campaign in 2003 called Meatless Mondays. Meatless Monday provides information and reminders to help people eat …

The Voice of Tea (tavalon.com):
… footprint.  Drinking tea instead of coffee in the morning, for example, shaves off about 26 gallons of water used per day. Want to find out other great ways to reduce your water footprint without completely upending your lifestyle? Check out thiseasy to understand, thoughtful webpage. (Feel free to substitute tea into each meal, by the way - it’ll only do your body good!) …

mellowcat (bgwashburn.wordpress.com):
… Some links that I followed led me to thisinformative chartshowing how much water is used for various household activities and food production.  I knew already about some of them, but the one about beef was a real surprise.  It takes 1500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.  They must be figuring all the wa …

City Sifting (citysifting.com):
… 6.3 to 6.8 pounds of carbon emissions. (If you have one a week for a year, it’s the equivalent of burning through 17 gallons of gasoline, or driving over 500 miles ). And, for those of us that care about water as much as the sky, it takes634 gallons of water to produce one burger. So…in honor of Earth Day… City Sifting’s going meat-free today. I asked my friends (some vegetarian) to send me a list of their favorite meatless dishes, served in D.C. restaurants. Below you’ll find a list of our …

cstreet.us (cstreet.us):
… “As we become more and more aware that we may be using water at an unsustainable pace, the idea of water footprints—the amount of water an individual uses—is becoming more common.” ThisGood magazine illustrationprovides some surprises. …

Just Between Strangers (justbetweenstrangers.blogspot.com):
… least, we recycle compulsively, try to buy recycled products, and make produce choices that tend toward the local, at the edges at least. Still, contemplating switching to cloth diapers (and all the additional handling) is very sobering, and somehowthis graphic(especially the entries for beef!) almost makes me cry. Awareness is good, being willing to deal with some costs and inconveniences is responsible, but there are so many competing inefficiencies in every aspect of life in America that I sometimes feel that one can barely ma …

2000 Dollar Budget Wedding (2000dollarwedding.com):
… Ooh. This post isn't particularly relevant to planning meaningful and memorable weddings, but I just had to share. You can go toGood Magazineand see this amazing graphic about how much water we consume through various things. It's definitely an implicit public service announcement for vegetarianism! While I'm off-topic, let me throw in a few other things I've been meaning to talk about (but just couldn't seem to …

Project Open Hand's Blog (site.openhandstore.org):
… Okay, okay … we’re mindful of lapsing into finger-wagging when it comes to how to eat (or how not to eat) so make what you will of this: Good Magazine   has awonderful graphic that compares the water you use and the water that helped make the thing you used. For instance, it takes 1500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, whereas 287 gallons of water is needed to produce a pound of chicken.   …

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