By Vera, on April 22nd, 2010
I’m so glad for dolphin activist Ric O’Barry and TakePart that the The Cove crew is Oprah’s Earth Day pick today! The Oscar-award winning documentary on Japan’s dolphin hunting has got to be one of the most disturbing films I’ve seen in years. Thanks to their Cause page and the power of the web, the film’s . . . → Read More: “The Cove” makes it on Oprah for Earth Day! So does Plastiki
By Vera, on March 22nd, 2010
For World Water Day 2010, I thought I’d mention three campaigns doing strong work on pressing issues right now: disaster relief in Haiti and stopping the bottled water industry. I also posted them on my Take Back the Tap Facebook page.
Charity: water has grown so much since it started a few years ago by one New . . . → Read More: Growing campaigns for World Water Day
By Vera, on September 12th, 2008

I recently created a Facebook group forĀ Take Back the Tap after reading Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte. Years ago we somehow got sold on the idea that bottled water was the healthy thing to drink. But doing so, we’re draining water reservoirs from communities that depend on it in plastic bottles that end up . . . → Read More: Boycott bottled water – take back the tap