From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Lost in the Plastic Forest

June 17, 2009

The recent Figment 2009 event, held June 12-14 at Governors Island in New York, is described as “a FREE, annual celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible.” One possiblity realized [...]

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Four Corny Water Jokes

June 16, 2009

Since THE INTERNET overtook our lives, we miss those old-timey, hokey jokes. You remember… the kind  that came straight from someone’s mouth, face-to-face. The not-really-funny jokes that were made hysterical with huge dramatic [...]

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Busted: Felony Possession of Water

June 15, 2009

Sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, weapons, a-OK, proceed ahead. Water? Contraband, you’re busted! We’re no fan of bottled water, but is it really this high up on the sin and shame-scale [...]

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Go in Style: 2009 Finalists for Best Public Restroom

June 13, 2009

Go the the polls…or maybe go AT the polls…and make your vote count for the 2009 edition of America’s Best (Public) Restroom. (Voting ends July 31, 2009.) You can vote [...]

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h2o mp3s: Água de Beber

June 12, 2009

The song “Água de Beber” (Water to Drink) is a 1963 bossa nova blockbuster composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian songwriter and artist celebrated as one of the primary [...]

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Next Up: The Air-Water Nexus

June 11, 2009

As we run great rivers nearly dry, suck our aquifers empty and pump, pump, pump, in increasingly futile attempts to meet unsustainable water demand, hope springs anew as a vision [...]

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Your Towering English Country Estate

June 10, 2009

For less than the price of a slightly-fancy European automobile, you could own your very own European water tower! That’s the kind of status symbol that could completely deflate those [...]

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Sanyo Shows Sea Shots for the Seashore

June 9, 2009

If you’re pondering the wonders of the deep from a ground-level vantage, you’re missing the real action, or so we are reminded by this crazy-clever Sanyo campaign for an underwater [...]

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Astronaut Water: There Are No New Ideas

June 8, 2009

I’m coming to believe that there really are no new ideas! After our flash of Tang-inspiried brilliance regarding astronaut-branded recycled water, Kerry Freek (@CanadianWater on Twitter), Managing Editor of the excellent trade [...]

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NIMBY Noisemakers Will Never Surrender

June 6, 2009

Bring on the new development–condos, apartments, retail, we’re all for it! But wait. That big hulking water tower rising over our breathtaking mountain ridge view? Well, we’re NOT for that! [...]

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