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Check out this giveaway!

Nature Moms is giving away 2 reusable bottles – one for adults and one for kids. She’s got a great review up, and you can check it out here. Go visit her – it’s an awesome blog. But please don’t enter to win – you’ll weaken my chances of winning!

Club soda for cleaning

Is it just an old wives’ tale or is there really something about club soda that cleans well? As it turns out, grandma knew something. Club soda is great on acidic spots – coffee, wine, juice, bodily fluids, things of that nature. From carpet to laundry, countertops to stainless steel. Club soda really does offer [...]

Need Tylenol? Drink tap water!

A disturbing study by the Associated Press has found prescription and over-the-counter medicines in the drinking water supply in major metropolises around the country. With pharmaceuticals from ibuprofen and acetaminophen to more hard-core drugs like anti-epileptic, cholesterol, and heart medications, scientists are worried about the long-term effects of mild exposure, as well as drug interaction. [...]

Bottled water goes green(er)

Bottled water. Fast Company clued us in last summer as to why it’s just. so. bad. Care for a run-down?

The US is one of the top consumers of bottled water, but it also has one of the cleanest tap water supplies in the world (i.e., we don’t need bottled water here, but other countries do [...]

BYOB

Bring Your Own Bottle. Or, more precisely, mug. When you’ll be stopping off at Starbucks or whatever your favorite coffee shop is, have your own to-go travel mug handy. Think about the waste we’d save if stopped using disposable coffee cups and water bottles. The way our population drinks bottled water and lattes in to-go [...]

SIGG bottle giveaway!

Over here at Broom Huggers we’re pretty excited this week. We’ve got a lot going on, not the least of which is our Dog Days of Summer Giveaway, hosted by Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer.
And we’re giving away – not one, but – two SIGG reusable aluminum water bottles! These were featured on Oprah’s [...]

Coming Next Week

Next week will be a big week here at Broom Huggers – thanks to all the negative attention bottled water has been given (see here and here), we’ll be giving away TWO SIGG reusable bottles. As featured on Oprah, Time, Elle, and over a dozen other magazines, these bottles are cool and highly durable.Broom [...]

A few good reads

Inhabitat clued us in that the US Congress plans to go carbon neutral by the end of the current term!
�Gristmill filled us in on the demographics at the Live Earth house parties in Austin this weekend. Looks like us broomhuggers are 30-something-plus. I find that odd when it looked like the concerts were geared toward [...]

Klean Kanteen stainless bottles

Did you know that in most cities the municipal water supply goes through much greater scrutiny than bottled waters? That means your tap water may be healthier than bottled water. And frankly, the plastic used in bottled waters is atrocious for the environment. Really, if you’re drinking bottled water – especially from those little throw-away [...]

Best water bottle

Here it is. Featured on Oprah. Called the toughest water bottle by Backpacker Magazine.
Sigg water bottles are a great looking, fully-functional way to tote your water and be kind to the earth. They keep your water tasting like water and don’t allow particles to seep into it.
They’re dishwasher safe. And the rest of the [...]