| As a professor of design at the New England Institute of Art, Laura saw hundreds of kids walking around with bottled water, soda and energy drinks. More often than not, they sit half emptied, roll under desks and lay in hallways waiting for maintenance to clean up. The school had a recycling program, and that was a relief, but she asked myself, “what about the water fountain? Look at the waste! They don’t even finish the drinks they buy!”
Through working with Pat Durkin and other passionate friends, she started to educate herself about what was really going on with the water bottle industry. She learned about the massive impact the water bottle industry has on waste, energy, economics, the environment and our health. She was inspired and became convinced that making a slight adjustment to our daily routines could make a difference for the whole planet. As a mom, she brought what she learned, home. The kids began educating their teachers as well as their friends and through their friends, their friends’ families and so on. She saw what one person could do, and knew right away how easy it would be to change the rhythm of millions of routines in a short amount of time. If two people told two people who told two people, and so on, it would only take 27 days for Americans to eliminate the usage of plastic water bottles in this country. |
