GreenSmart Notebook - Tom Larsen

If you're going to drink bottled water.....

In China, I've been told by most of my colleagues who come all the time, to drink bottled water. It's reinforced by the fact that everywhere you go, someone is trying to give you a bottle of water. Turns out here in Dong Guan where the temp will be high nineties and so will the humidity, that's not such a bad thing.

As a long time consumer products guy, I have to appreciate the good people of Watson's Water, a HK based water supplier since, are you sitting down, since 1828, but, apparently only distilling water since 1903, and their delightfully shaped bottle and closure. I know a couple of orange juice brands have recently integrated a lid that contours to their bottle asthetic, but, at www.Watsons-water.com, you can learn they claim to have put this design in the market in 2002. Good for them. And so far, good for me, too.

Skol.

From Grass Valley to Berkeley to Dong Guan, China - That's August

The rest of August will be pretty interesting. This weekend we go to Caltopia, the largest college lifestyle event on any college campus in the U.S.. It's always good to interact directly with students to see what's going on in their world. It's such a wonderfully positive time.
While on campus, I'll be at a attending a Board meeting of the Alumni Assoc. of the College of Natural Resources. There seems to be a communication gap between the college, the alumni and the students - which is not unlike most institutions of any kind these days. I'm continually amazed at how much more communication is produced in the 21st Century and how it is continually less and less useful.
Then I'm off to Dongguan, China. A 10 day trip to meet factory people, a new GreenSmart person in China and a hopefully something on the side. My first visit to this area. I'm looking forward to the travel and the meetings. All working on 2012.