Battling Bottled Water

I've seen you gulping on occasion from a plastic water bottle. What are you doing to reform your own habits?
About a year ago, my director of the office of the environment, Jared Blumenfeld, saw a case of Fiji water outside my office and he walked in furiously and said, "Do you know what you are doing to the environment?" You have to set a better example. It's not enough that I have an electric car. I have to slowly wean myself off. I'm not sitting here perfect. I'm trying at home what we provide all of our city employees.

A reusable stainless-steel bottle?
You'll see me with a fancy recycled bottle; I've got about a dozen different prototypes, bottles for bikers, for hikers, every kind you can imagine. But it does [take] getting used to. They are not as portable and clean as they appear to be. I recycle my bottles, but I am hardly going to be the poster child. Still, it's a start.

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