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Save Money? Calculate the Cost of Bottled Water

February 24, 2011

Here’s an easy way to save money that even the Daily Worth folks might just like: stop drinking bottled water. Instead use readily available tap water and a resuable glass water bottle. This one small step might just save you nearly $1,000 a year. How’d we find that number? The team over at New American Dream developed this handy bottled water cost calculator to help you understand just how much money you can save by making the switch.

Go ahead, see how much you can save.

And, after you calculate your savings, start planning what you might do with all that new-found money and let us know. Here’s how we plan to share our savings – by reinvesting into our local communities.

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Video: Making a Better Glass Water Bottle

February 22, 2011

It’s taken nearly two years since Laurel’s first sketch to our final product’s debut coming in 12 short days. As we worked with industrial designers, mold-makers and glass makers, we went through many modfied versions. But our committment at every phase was to creating a bottle that was made with recycled glass, that highlighted the natural beauty of glass and that blended high design with a functional, resuable, responsible bottle. I love this video we made showing our first bottles being made in an early phase. You’ll see the effort to heat the glass, mold the glass and refine it to finish. It’s beautiful, don’t you agree?

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BottlesUp Featured in New “Discover Design” at 2011 International Home + Housewares Show

February 15, 2011

This year at the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago, we’ll be one of 50 companies invited in to the special “Discover Design” section. This invitation-only area will be the section retailers have been asking for – a section dedicated to highly-styled products that will generate interest and excitement with their customers. We’ll be debuting our beautiful glass water bottles, made using ancient techniques in a modern glass-making facility. Our bottles, made up of a minimum of 75% recycled glass and food-grade silicone caps and ‘grippers’, highlight the beauty of glass. Our responsible design (created by a nationally-acclaimed glass artist), sourcing (100% sourced and made in North America) and packaging deliver a product that looks good, feels good and does good. Glass is naturally BPA-free and PVC-free, it won’t leach harmful chemicals, it leaves no residual odor or taste. The bottle is designed to fit the natural grasp of the hand and has a wide mouth with a rounded lip. Adding to that, we don’t use any plastics in our bottle or in our packaging – none, nada, zilch. By using glass instead of plastic, the use of one BottlesUp glass water bottle can keep 240 plastic bottles out of landfills every year. Wouldn’t you agree the combination of beauty, functionality, and responsibility is one you’d like to see?

If you’re heading to the IHA show in Chicago, come by Booth #3971. Come see the true beauty of glass in a better, more responsible bottle.

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BottlesUp Glass Water Bottles

February 14, 2011

For Valentine’s Day, I’m sharing the love – take a sneak peak at our glass water bottles that we’re set to debut this March. You can see the beauty of the glass – the result of its design and of how it’s made. It’s a beautiful process, have you seen it?

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BottlesUp to Debut at Int’l Home + Houseware Show in March

February 10, 2011

In just a few weeks, we’ll be debuting BottlesUp glass water bottles at the acclaimed International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago. From March 6-8, more than 60,000 people from around the world will come to see the latest, greatest and most interesting products available for the home and housewares. With more than 21,000 retail buyers coming to the show, we hope they’ll take the opportunity to bring BottlesUp glass water bottles to you. Our blend of design, beauty, functionality, responsibility – all in one bottle – can make a difference for your health and the environment.

If you’re going to the show in Chicago and want to connect, feel free to email us at jschmitt(at)cloudspark(dot)com. And if you’d like to share any of Chicaog’s best new dining secrets, our foodie team would be very thankful.

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