Treehugger has a post pointing to triplepundit.com where they have calculated the true cost of exotic bottled water. It’s interesting to note that it takes 25 liters of water to make the 1 litre bottles that the water is sold in (including power plant cooling water).

Curbly the DIY design community has a tutorial on how to fold paper into a CD case rather then having to use plastic CD covers

Instead of paying good cash for cd cases, which eventually break and end up in a landfill, how about creating your own, unique folded-paper cd cases that are biodegradable and take up a fraction of the space?

You can read the tutorial here.