Comments on Ken's review of Water
3 for 3ffort
Product(RED) and EthosWater may seem pitiful in their potential impacts, but they are a step. As much as I hate bottled water (yes, Americans spending $15B a year on it is a huge waste), and I hate it utterly, Starbucks does offer a chance for the car-driving public to help a cause they otherwise might not try for at all. Much like the food charity cards you can buy at Safeway, or the plant-a-tree options you can buy at IKEA or through Dell -- you might answer that it's a terrible placebo. Half a bandaid.
And while it's feelgood, 5% for a social safety net is better than the 0% that I see most people contributing to homeless beggars outside wholefoods and berkeley bowl, or the 0% that corporations give to social welfare in general. Honestly, I think corporate charters need to be rewritten to take care of society more. Corporations must give more to society than they take, given that they pay far less in taxes than citizens, ie me and you.
Tastes: like plastic.
Ken's keywords: ethos, bottled water, baxter natural spring water, starbucks, pete 1
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