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Advertising for Good: Tap Project

aki over at meshly writes:

In case you don't know David Droga's Tap Project, it's basically a scheme whereby, for one day, restaurants ask customers if they'd like to pay a dollar for a glass of the local tap water. Droga hatched the idea with the aim of helping Unicef provide clean water to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who don't have it. In its first year, only in New York, Unicef estimates it raised $6 million. Next year it'll roll out in more cities. Wieden + Kennedy has already volunteered to execute the scheme in Portland, Ore., Goodby in San Francisco, and Leo Burnett in Chicago. R/GA will bring an overarching digital component to it. Taxi is ready to take it to Canada and Dentsu wanting to implement it in Japan. Mayors and governors are getting involved. Marketers are standing by to become global sponsors. Unicef is already describing it as its biggest project in 60 years.

"Wouldn't it be amazing if, through our reach, creativity and networks of contacts, we could really change access to clean drinking water all over the world? Our industry will be able to say, 'We, the ad industry, did that,'" said Droga.
Link to article.

Just remember to hydrate

Ok, so summer is great, it really is. You can bike to work at full tilt and enjoy the wind whistling through your helmet.

However, just try and remember that when you do that, and it's a heat index of 90F+, with heavy humidity, that you're pushing your limits. Or at least, I was yesterday.

Yesterday on my ride in, I basically put the hammer down and was having a blast, sweating my brains out, literally...

By midday, I had a dehydration induced migraine the size of a freaking jackhammer going off in my head. I promptly left work, went home, drank what seemed like a tank of water, and passed out for about 3 hours. All was well.

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