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- Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/634b761e-4cd0-4d15-986e-16ca115f2def/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-08-12T102149.812.webp Blog Bites - Ketamine Hype? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/moisturizer-yes-or-no monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/06993ff1-3d2a-4610-a462-822cffbc7522/1.webp Blog Bites - Moisturizer: Yes or No? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/9c6cd88e-d0df-4e3f-9ce6-db95f28adb6e/2.webp Blog Bites - Moisturizer: Yes or No? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/7c9364df-9a09-4ffd-bbce-97bcc5782d73/3.webp Blog Bites - Moisturizer: Yes or No? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/hydrogenated-oils monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/b460013b-f576-469b-a606-82310b4dfe3f/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-07-12T140526.562.webp Blog Bites - Hydrogenated Oils - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/d7cc2bad-e17b-4a93-a0ab-1310ce0bc269/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-07-12T140535.348.webp Blog Bites - Hydrogenated Oils - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/big-oil-undermining-climate-change-science-in-the-classroom monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/a467a732-91ce-4d4d-8985-aa5fb9f8dbfe/1.webp Blog Bites - Big Oil Undermining Climate Change Science in the Classroom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/46eac949-ecaa-4eb6-b7d4-480b37c4feab/2.webp Blog Bites - Big Oil Undermining Climate Change Science in the Classroom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/f87c16d2-22e2-414f-be29-4bd4d196b1c3/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-06-23T125908.021.webp Blog Bites - Big Oil Undermining Climate Change Science in the Classroom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/tea-time monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/160f6c18-e03d-4ca9-89d5-785155015082/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-06-17T150003.929.webp Blog Bites - Tea Time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/0543e24f-fe8f-4c07-b534-3281727a9bd6/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-06-17T145952.628.webp Blog Bites - Tea Time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/in-the-news-aerial-photos-exposed-illegal-mining monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/cfd62546-7c31-45e0-9755-06e53893936e/images.jpg Blog Bites - In the News: Aerial Photos Exposed Illegal Mining - Make it stand out Check out this article regarding the contamination of the water supply for several communities by an old, illegal mining operation. After suffering years of contamination, locals finally sued Pegasus Gold under the Clean Water Act and came away with a $36 million settlement in 1996. However, that doesn’t go far when water has to be treated in perpetuity. The water sources for Fort Belknap are still threatened by acid mine drainage, but currently the tribes’ funding for water treatment lasts only until 2028. Full article here. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/should-we-ban-water-bottles monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/766ed808-ba75-4193-8f73-508ecfc9ac6c/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B%2829%29.webp Blog Bites - Should We Ban Water Bottles? - Make it stand out If you were offered a brand new bottle of water or a glass of water from the tap, which one would you reach for? We’ve talked before about how “enhanced” bottled waters are pretty gimmick-filled and may be more of an issue than a boon. We’ve also touched on the current water crisis as well as some of the current complications with tap water today. Any mention of Flint, Michigan will probably bring the dangers of water contamination and an overall shortage to mind for years to come. What about plain, bottled water? Bottled water has had a chokehold on the American preference for decades. Many of us grew up believing that bottled water was just cleaner and more heavily filtered than what came out of the tap. Even as we drank from hoses and accidentally swallowed lake water, we knew that just based on the cost alone, there had to be something special about that plastic-encapsulated H20. That’s one reason many of us were up in arms when it came out that Aquafina was literally straight from the tap. So, besides the possibility that they are identical to what comes from your kitchen faucet, what are the other big reasons that bottled water might be a bust? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/2200edd3-0cd7-46c2-842b-15d9c1df7485/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-07-26T154004.717.webp Blog Bites - Should We Ban Water Bottles? - Make it stand out The most obvious reason is right in the name: Plastic. Plastic waste is one of the biggest contributors to global warming and we, as a global community, need to be doing our utmost to combat such an unnecessary strain. More than 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce enough bottled water to meet America’s current demand. Even though some plastic bottles can technically be recycled, less than 1 in 5 are eligible. Even fewer make it into the recycling process. Most end up in a landfill or the ocean. Millions of tons of plastic bottles are currently floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Island. In addition, plastic often carries several chemical contaminants. Have you ever left a water bottle in your car and wondered if it was still okay to drink? The simple answer is, probably not. The longer answer is that the integrity of the plastic used for most bottles (roughly 93% of them) holds up until about 70 degrees. At that point, you are likely ingesting a significant amount of microplastics and heavy metals as well as an unknown cocktail of chemical contaminants that differs slightly between brands. So again, if you are considering drinking that hot, bottled water from the backseat, maybe just don’t! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/75472771-06fd-45ef-978f-93277a7f4bfd/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-07-26T154024.210.webp Blog Bites - Should We Ban Water Bottles? - Make it stand out There are several different common sources for bottled water. One, as we mentioned, is literally tap water or Publically Source Water like what’s still used by Aquafina. Another is spring water. This water is taken from a natural source where water flows to the earth’s surface from deep underground. In slight contrast, well water is a manmade structure that taps a deep aquifer and creates access to this stored water. Water bottle companies usually source their water from one of the above and and then siphon off millions of gallons of water for bottling. The bottles themselves required oil to be extracted for their production and the amount of oil could power hundreds of thousands of homes. Add to that the facts that water is also used in the production of water bottles and the processing of water and the true the amount of water used by water bottle companies is staggering. For example, it take 6 liters of water to produce and cool 1.5 liters of bottled water. That means that not only are bottled water companies taking the millions of liters of water actually sold in store from springs and aquifers around the country, but they are also taking 4 times that amount just to process the water that is sold. The efficiency of this process is not only sorely lacking, but the environmental toll is staggering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/1ee0a50d-ab4f-4a59-83f4-69030a585b0b/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B-%2B2022-08-04T133809.439.webp Blog Bites - Should We Ban Water Bottles? - Make it stand out Now, you may have heard a little about Nestle and their own water practices recently. Nestle owns one of the biggest water bottle companies in the country and they siphon water even from places that are suffering from a resource shortage. For example, in California, there have been several years of drought and fires and while communities are limiting their own water usage, Nestle is still pumping away millions of liters. It would still be bad if Nestle was paying back the communities it was taking from but as if to add injury to insult, in many cases, Nestle is paying a couple hundred dollars annually to pump millions of gallons of water from natural resources. In San Bernardino, CA for example, Nestle has been paying $524 for roughly 30 million gallons of water. That is a little over 5 dollars for 300,000 gallon. A dollar for 60,000 gallons. A penny for 600 gallons. How much is a bottle of water? $2 for something cheap. More if there is any kind of “enhancement.” For a penny, at the rate Nestle pays, you could fill 3,720 water bottles. I think it’s safe to say that we are all over paying for bottled water to an astronomical extent. So, at the end of the day, water bottles require huge amounts of water in addition to the water sold to be made. They require millions of barrels of fossil fuels and their cost is staggeringly disproportionate to the cost of producing them. All of that on top of the fact that disposing of plastic bottles takes a devastating toll on the environment and is one the the larger contributors to atmospheric pollution. https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/ecobricking-building-a-future monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/cfd3c6d7-9e7f-49c7-af0b-d6d2f813b7cd/ecobricks_garden_grande_lgb2nt.webp Blog Bites - Ecobricking: Building a Future - Make it stand out Have you heard of ecobricking? Among the innovative solutions we have for plastic waste, this one’s geared specifically toward our daily and personal lives. Ecobricking takes the plastic we use on a daily basis and removes it from the typical industrial waste track. We’ve talked about how plastic not only hurts the environment and often ends up in the ocean, but how the production of plastic, the use of fossil fuels, contributes to the build up of greenhouse gasses, ultimately causing global warming and climate change. While supporting corporate and industrial, big picture solutions is the biggest way for us to see large and essential changes, personal changes in our everyday practices can make an impact as we work to change the larger system. Ecobricking is one of those lifestyle changes. So, what is ecobricking? Ecobricking is the process of using a PET or Polyethylene Terephthalate bottle to create a reusable building block. These bricks accomplish what is called plastic sequestration which isolates these plastics from the environment in such a way as to prevent degradation and the development of microplastics. These plastics will not be melted down, releasing greenhouse gasses into the air. They will not fill a landfill, leaching toxins into our groundwater. They won’t end up in the sea. Instead, these plastics will be turned into building blocks used to create anything from firepit seating to entire affordable homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/30865232-46e4-4884-b01f-41975b56f2e0/Ecobrick-Castle-og6x0en5c5en7dje3hc13fl7sukj8nd31t4wj9vlwg.webp Blog Bites - Ecobricking: Building a Future - Make it stand out How do you create an ecobrick? Well, first you save your plastics. Rise them like you would for regular recycling but set them aside. Then, take a clean see-through bottle and prepare to pack. You will need small, packable or shreddable plastics. Stuff that will fit in a plastic bottle, obviously. You will also need a blunt stick to pack that plastic in as tightly as possible. You’ll want to alternate between softer plastics and harder ones, shooting for a min weight of 0.33g/ml. Remember that the color you start with will be the color of the brick so you might want to keep that consistent depending on the project you plan to use your bricks for. If you are ecobricking for your community or school, they might already have a color or group of colors in mind so make sure you check before you begin packing. We’ll include a link with more details about the process below this article. Once you’ve created a collection of bricks, you can use them to create whatever you want. They can be made to be incorporated into permanent structures, as with a building or larger outdoor structure. Or they can be made to be a little more flexible with the option to break them down and build them back up in new ways, as with lego style furniture. Really, the sky's the limit. Ecobricking is a great way to be aware of the amount of plastic waste your household creates and many organically begin to reduce their plastic use as they see how much plastic waste they create. Ecobricking is just one way we can reuse, recycle, and reduce all in one lifestyle change. For those who don’t feel like they can make a difference, it’s a calculable and quantifiable change! Resources: What is an Ecobrick? Plastic Sequestration | Ecobricks.org Bottle Bricks | Engineering For Change Our Projects https://www.cpa501c3.org/blog-bites/garbage-island monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6aa438be77211b17d98ccf7a/d690585d-30a6-4ff6-8d40-928d0cc2e1bf/3.webp Blog Bites - Did You Know About the Garbage Island? - Make it stand out It is wild to think about the amount of plastic waste we create in this country and around the world. We’ve discussed how we produce about 380 million tons of plastic and a sizable chunk of that is dumped into the ocean each year and how as human beings we inadvertently eat a surprisingly high amount of plastic as a result. Microplastics are pervasive and small enough that they are consumed in our food, found in our drinking water and even in the air. We’ve talked about this before but did you know about the garbage island? The garbage island, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located in the pacific ocean between California and Hawaii and spans an area about three times the size of texas. You can only imagine how many marine creatures are impacted by a mass of plastic waste that large. Even more eye opening is that while the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest plastic waste site in the ocean, it is not the only one. It’s actually one of 5 very large sites of plastic waste contamination. 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