It'€™s called Coaqua. Pure coconut water. No added sugar. No fat. No cholesterol. The fruit of the tropical sun. We harvest our coconuts in Vietnam and package the water at source—in glass bottles. A natural liquid that has matured to the sound of the waves deserves to be packaged in something better than plastic. The planet deserves better. So do you.

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing back in my earlier days." The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re- used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribbling.

Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every Supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.   But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy- gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.   But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back In our day. Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland.