{"id":1886,"date":"2010-01-27T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:38","slug":"keeping-green-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/brand-culture\/keeping-green-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Green Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to some colleagues about New Year&#8217;s resolutions and one said his resolution\u00a0was to try to not use any plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>This surprised me in that he\u00a0isn&#8217;t the sort of person that you would readily identify as the &#8220;tree hugger&#8221; type. But then on further reflection I realized it actually made sense because the &#8220;plastic issue&#8221; seems to have gone pretty mainstream. I myself blogged about it last May in a post,<strong>\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/brandtwist.com\/?p=18\">The Scarlett P.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a few resolutions myself this New Year and, I am happy to say, I am doing pretty well\u00a0at\u00a0keeping.<\/p>\n<p>Except one.<\/p>\n<p>The one that&#8217;s turning out to be the doozy is to drink less bottled water.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Keep reading \u00bb -->The problem is that my bottled water reduction goal seems to be in direct conflict with my other resolutions which are to lose weight and get more exercise.<\/p>\n<p>My cupboard is cluttered with Sigg bottles and other plastic reusable water bottles. Some I&#8217;ve purchased, some I&#8217;ve gotten as various promos and give aways.<\/p>\n<p>But none of these environmentally better solutions work for me as well as my bottled water.<\/p>\n<p>None fit in my purse as well, are as leak proof, fit in the cup holder in the car or on the treadmill.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I am turning out to be a classic example of someone who says they want to make\u00a0better\u00a0environmental choices, but won&#8217;t if it means sacrificing on product quality or experience.<\/p>\n<p>I feel very\u00a0badly about this every morning as I continue to reach for my convenient (yet evil) bottle of Poland Spring.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your twist?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had similar issues keeping &#8220;green resolutions&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/HealthCheckQualification\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"strategy-graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/brandtwist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/strategy-graphic.gif\" width=\"330\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to some colleagues about New Year&#8217;s resolutions and one said his resolution\u00a0was to try to not use any plastic bags. This surprised me in that he\u00a0isn&#8217;t the sort of person that you would readily identify as the &#8220;tree hugger&#8221; type. But then on further reflection I realized it actually made sense because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,105,93,37],"tags":[40,60,42,45,80,172,52,173,174],"class_list":{"0":"post-1886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brand-culture","7":"category-environment","8":"category-holidays-2","9":"category-inspiration","10":"tag-brand","11":"tag-brand-school","12":"tag-branding","13":"tag-brandtwist","14":"tag-business-building","15":"tag-ecology","16":"tag-julie-cottineau","17":"tag-new-year","18":"tag-resolutions"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16556,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}