You Gotta Love The Environmentally Friendly Vodka

See – Anything can be Green – even Vodka. 

Jumping on the environmental train is McCormick Distillery and their new Vodka 360 . Recycled bottles, environmentally friendly labels and ink, and a charitable donation to boot – there’s no reason not to buy Vodka 360.  

Another excellent example of companies using a Green theme to make their products stand out on the shelf.  The Vodka 360 brand now has a “feel-good” aura to it, that will have hands reaching for their bottles, instead of the competition’s.

Inhabitat.com has a full review here:

360 Vodka: World’s First Eco - Friendly Premium Spirit

Greenpeace loves Sony

Blog and Run:

Greenpeace has released their guide to electronics this week and gave a big thumbs up to the Sony TZ.  The TZ has no beryllium in it, one of the most harmful chemicals we know. Congratulations to Sony!

Full Review from Wired

Full Report from GreenPeace

Lawyers of The Amazon

The days of large oil companies running amok through the rainforest, destroying villages and lives, as they frantically search for more oil, are over.  The tribes are ready to fight back. Not with guns, not with grenades, but with lawyers – and nothing is scarier then a lawyer.

The BBC news is reporting that the Achuar tribe, of the Peruvian rainforest, have filed a lawsuit against Occidental Oil.  The suit is claiming for damages for 30 years of contamination that Occidental left behind. 

“We can’t allow this, we’re a new generation, we know how to read and write and we have to help our people because they didn’t have the knowledge to defend themselves against the oil companies. But now we do.”

Full Article here:

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution