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- Yes, I move that the town vote to ban the sale of water

in plastic bottles in Concord starting January 1st, 2011.

I want to discuss the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

- That's way in the Pacific.

We're here in Concord.

Could you go...

- I know, but that's where the plastic bottles go.

- Yep.

That's where they go.

And could you go on to the third one, please?

- I've returned with an article carefully written as a bylaw.

I ask for your support once again.

- Ms. Hill.

- Good evening.

Two years ago, I began this effort

because my grandson Mack told me about

the disastrous environmental effect

of empty plastic bottles.

- What's the problem with Concord right now?

- Yeah, there's a woman in town who has...

for the past three years, she's been trying to ban the sale

of bottled water.

- Ban the sale of what?

(LAUGHTER)

- I know, I know it sounds crazy Dan, and I'm with you.

She wants to ban the sale of bottled water...

- Bottled water?

- Yes, bottled water.

(DOORBELL)

- Hi, would you sign my petition?

- Oh, I don't agree with that.

- OK.

Well, thanks, anyhow.

Bye.

- I think of all towns where freedom should be protected,

I mean, Concord is where it should be protected.

- I'm back with a bottle ban.

People sort of flee when they see me

because they know they're going to get a little sermonette.

(DOORBELL)

- Why in a town like Concord...

(DOORBELL)

...when we recycle?

Go find another town in Massachusetts

where they're not doing a great job recycling.

Doesn't that make more sense than removing

the single most healthy beverage that's contained

in plastic on the market?

- Well, she has twins and she's pretty busy.

She's probably in the middle of giving them

one of their snacks.

OK, well, onward and upward.

I consider myself a warrior.

I live in Concord and I'm trying to get

plastic water bottles banned.

And warriors have to be prepared for any enemy.

Boy, it's a mess in there.

Looks like someone's just moved in.

I think I'll skip this one.

- These ideas that we can actually

have free choice in what we buy and how we shop,

they're under attack right now by one bill, one person.

- She's a prophet.

People think prophets are crazy.

But honestly, over time, you think

they're less crazy because you realize

they're on to something.

- I'm no prophet.

I'm the right person, and this is the right time.

- My name is Eric Van Loon.

I'm the elected town moderator here in Concord.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

Concord is a very special community in American history.

There were lots of reasons to be attracted to living in Concord.

- This cheese will reportedly be the largest wheel

of Italian cheese anywhere in the Western hemisphere.

(CROWD CHEERING)

- We have everything from Walden Pond and Luisa May Alcott

to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau,

plus the key role that Concord played in the Revolutionary War

once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard

round the world at the old North Bridge a half mile from here.

- I think it really started in Lexington,

but then it came to Concord.

And Concord was where they stood up against the British.

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

their flag to April's breeze unfurled.

Here, once, the embattled farmer stood...

- Raise arms.

- Raise arms.

- ...and fired the shot heard 'round the world."

I find that very moving.

To me, it symbolizes the same thing that I'm doing.

And so it'll be the second shot heard 'round the world.

That's pretty corny, but it will be.

I'm doing it because I know it's right and I know it's just.

- Over here, ma'am.

Have a seat.

- Thank you, sir.

- Yeah, you're welcome.

Take care of yourself.

- I will.

I'm Jean Hill, and this is where I live.

The address is 24 Concord Green, Apartment 5.

And I've been living here quite a long time

and I like it very much.

Here it is.

Oh, I remember this so well.

This is 73 Monument Street, where my husband and I raised

our four children.

My husband died in '06.

For a year, I was mourning, but after

that I realized that for the first time in my life

I was not responsible to anyone and I could do anything

I pleased.

I didn't have to do any cooking for my kids,

I didn't have to worry about my husband.

And I liked that, but I did find it

necessary to find some kind of activity.

And that's when I started working

against plastic bottles.

My grandson, Mack...

(MUSIC PLAYING)

I was visiting their house one day and Mack said, "You know,

Grandma, there are big bunches of plastic in the ocean

and it's really terrible."

He was a smart little kid and he looked it up on the computer.

You're the source of all this trouble.

Then I started thinking on it and using the internet

to get information.

This is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

There it is.

And it is an amazing mass.

Look at the size of those gyres, and there are so many of them.

Do you have the Concord Journal yet?

- Yes, ma'am, right on the bottom shelf.

- OK.

You have the best butcher in town.

- Thank you very much.

- Now I need that penny...

- Thank you very much.

- ...because every penny helps.

- Absolutely.

There you go, you gave me one too many.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Bye, now.

- Bye-bye.

"Bottled water debate resumes."

The more ink you get, the better.

On and on the debate goes.

- Democracy is alive and well in Concord, and lots of people

have points of views on everything

and they're all very articulate.

- As a community, there's no community in the United States

that's ever made a community choice

to eliminate a product such as single serve bottled water.

- People want to drink water, and as a merchant

it's my job to give people what they want.

The packaging is not as important as the product.

- This land has been in agriculture

back before the settlers came, and it

seems the Indians didn't have a very good immigration policy

and they lost the land to some of the intruders.

And this was part of the land taken by the King of England

when they came.

76 years I've lived in Concord, which actually is about

a fifth of the town's history.

I'm opposed to the bottled water ban,

I think that people should be able to make their own choice.

I don't drink it, never bought a bottle in my life.

But I think people should be able to choose.

- Imagine how our Founding Fathers would feel now if after

writing the Declaration of Independence --

which talks about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness --

if they heard hundreds of years later,

you wouldn't even have the freedom to even be able to buy

water.

It's not crack or heroin.

It's water.

Let's keep this in perspective, OK?

- It's also, I think, a pretty slippery slope when

you start trying to make healthy legal items illegal.

I don't know where it starts and where it ends,

but I think it's a pretty slippery slope

to start to take away the freedom of choice for people.

(DRUM ROLL)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- Live free or die, because death is not

the worst of all evils.

Slavery is.

(GUNSHOT)

(CAR ALARM)

- I'm Chuck Hacala, captain of the Bedford Minutemen Company.

We are here today for the Meriam Corner Exercise,

and our company is specifically invited to this event

because we carry the Bedford flag, which

was the only flag carried at the Battle of Concord in 1775.

We have lots of things, lots of laws that attack our freedoms.

I can't just go out and drive 200 miles an hour in my car.

I would like to have that freedom, maybe,

but we decide as a group that, no,

we're going to actually put in some laws

that limit our behaviors but in what we

consider a positive way.

So I think, again, it's up to the people that

want to ban the bottles to convince the larger

community that this is really good for everybody.

And if they can convince enough people,

then I think it's perfectly fine to ban something

like bottled water.

- Well, what I'm doing is I have a petition Article, number 32

on the town warrant, and that is to ban

the sale of drinking water in plastic bottles

in the town of Concord.

- I don't think we have that kind of problem.

I think those have been overblown a lot

in the last several years.

Why put more burdens of people than they already have?

- Well, because only 20% of the plastic water

bottles are recycled.

- How do we know that, though?

What's our statistics for that?

- You can find out a lot about all these issues

if you go to Corporate Accountability

International in Boston.

They have tobacco...

things...

what did you do?

Why did you kill that bug?

Well, I don't want to argue with you.

- No, I don't either.

- But...

- I would say you're probably the Goliath

and I think the Davids are the folks that

are going to probably want to drink their water.

- No.

- We'll proceed initially with the discussion of Article 38.

- Hello?

Oh.

(LAUGHTER)

- Hello.

- OK, I guess it's on.

- Please identify yourself.

- I'm Jean Hill, and I live at 24 Concord Green.

- And I'm Jill Appel, and I live at 244 Caterina Heights.

- We're a team.

- Thank you very much.

- I'm the perspiration, she's the inspiration.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

When I first met Jean, I wasn't really

compelled to think of bottled water in the way that I do now.

People said, "Oh, bottled water, bottled water, what

a small thing", and "You're not going

to make a big difference", and things like that.

And I have to admit my first reaction also was, jeez,

what are we talking about here?

You know, water in plastic bottles?

Come on.

But throughout my research I guess

I found that bottled water is really the epitome,

it is the poster child for unsustainability.

And the more I learned about the issue,

the more I realized that she's got something.

It's really important.

Even when you can make a small change,

that small change could have a big impact.

- I think Jill realized that I needed help,

because I'm a loner and she knows the way the town works.

She's much better at that.

So we make... together we make a very good team.

- We're both strong women.

When I get out of line, Jean'll tell me.

And when Jean...

when I need to rope Jean in, I'll tell her.

So I think there's a lot of mutual respect.

- Because I have the passion and she has the know-how,

and that works.

- I think this is a time where one community can

put its foot down and say "We're going

to take a stand against this product

because it's an unsustainable product."

I think the time is right.

Good morning, Jean!

- Good morning, Jill.

- How are you?

- Here, I'm all set for the coordinations.

- I heard, I called ahead.

My focus is more at the community level,

because you have to think global but work at the local level

to make things happen.

And I guess within the town of Concord,

I feel there's a good community that's

supportive of environmental issues.

This is the kind of place where we can

get some of this stuff done.

Thank you so much for coming today.

And thank you for participating in this,

because I think we have an opportunity

to really make history here.

The Article that we've got this year is basically the same.

It still focuses on single serve bottles only,

of one liter or less.

So the gallon jugs are not covered by the Article.

There still is an exemption for emergencies.

The deal on this is not about the fines,

it's about making a statement about an unsustainable product

that we would choose not to have in our community.

So our goal this year is to really reach out and just get

votes.

- Each person has their own circle of friends.

And so if you can spread the word among your friends,

that'll be a big help.

- The idea is that we're quietly going about gathering votes

from sympathetic people.

We appreciate your coming tonight

and look forward to working with you on the campaign.

- One of the key features of Town Meeting --

and this goes back in Massachusetts law

and the Constitution for really hundred of years --

is the right of individual citizens to bring a measure

to a vote at Town Meeting.

And the bar is very, very low.

10 signatures is all that's required to get a warrant

Article before the town.

- Well, I'm tickled that I got so many signatures.

Many more than I need.

The minimum is 10, but I got much more than that.

Hello, Anita.

- How are you doing?

Nice to see you again.

Stamp them in for you, so that we know that you've got them

in on time...

- Yup.

- ...by the deadline, and this looks great.

Best of luck with this, Jean.

- Thank you.

- And it was nice to see you.

- Thank you.

- And happy new year.

- Bye-bye,

- Bye, Arlene.

Well, that's done.

Now I just have to finish it.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- When I think back to the Founding Fathers

and the radical thought that was going on there,

these are people who realized the world was changing.

And they wanted to change it into a better place.

They were leaving behind the feudal system,

the absolute monarchal systems that had dominated in Europe,

and saying "We need a new world order."

And they were radicals, that's what they're fighting for.

They were fighting for ideals.

I'm Bob Lawson.

- I'm Bill Turville.

This is our sculpture.

Bob's idea, my assistance in realizing it.

- My concept of putting together the sculpture...

right now, it's really to support Jean's Article

and I hope it helps that thing pass.

When this is finished, it'll be comprised of 1,500 water

bottles -- 1,500.

And that's the number that are consumed

every second in the United States, just the United States

alone.

Every second of every day, all these bottles and the ones you

saw on the wall there came from one family --

one family -- who recycles them, but I would get to...

I noticed how many they were getting rid of every week

and I would get there before the recycling truck came.

And I would just take their recycling,

and I'd throw them in my thing.

We're not the radicals.

Just like Jean... the people, Jean Hill, and Jill Appel,

and everyone who's going to vote for them,

they are not the radicals.

The radicals are the people who think

that we can alter the chemistry of our Earth, for profit.

For profit.

This is what this is, this is profit.

These companies need to sell more.

They couldn't sell more Coke and Pepsi and all that,

so they decided to sell water.

- What's the first reason I'm helping out in the campaign?

Well, the first reason I'm helping out in the campaign

is because my mother asked me to.

(LAUGHTER)

People are already dying from climate change,

and people are already suffering from climate change,

and it's going to get a lot worse.

You have to say, when people talk about choice,

and "I'd like to be able to go down buy bottled water"...

you don't make a choice in a vacuum.

- I think we have to have some component within

the presentation that talks about litigation...

- Yeah.

- ...and I think we ought to make it clear to the people

in the room that we expect to get sued.

(LAUGHTER)

- All right, well, if you are going to make that point I

think you should not fail to underline we're being picked

on by a giant bully who's much more powerful...

- That's right, and Concord doesn't respond well

to bullies.

- I thought of a visual of the bottled water industry dressed

in red coats shooting bottled water saying "Drink up,

Concord.

Or else."

And I just...

I like that kind of visual piece because I

think we have to come right out and say,

we had some bullies in here 200 years ago.

All right, do the math.

250 years ago...

- And we'll be firing...

- ...whatever.

- We'll be firing the second shot heard 'round the world.

- And are we going to let them intimidate us?

(MUSIC PLAYING)

It's a big industry.

It's a big industry to try and... you know,

it's David and Goliath here.

- Yeah.

Well, do you look at the size of their postcards?

Last year, we sent one out.

It was this big.

And their postcard was this big last year.

Now it's even bigger and there are three of them.

- This is power.

This is power.

- Yeah, really.

We're big.

We're powerful.

We're going to take up your whole mailbox.

- And we're going to send two of them to every...

- It's kind of intimidating.

- Just got this in the mail yesterday.

And so, they're coming up with some pretty big graphics

and really trying to catch your eye.

And that's why I'm trying to catch some eyes too,

to counteract this.

But this is what we're dealing with in Concord now.

It's getting hot and heavy this week.

- But you can see they're working at every demographic

here.

- Yeah.

- Let's get the...

- Oh, yeah, look at this.

The moms, the soccer moms, the kids.

- I'm a little alarmed to see all the ads

that have come around.

Did you see the...

- Well, they always do that.

It's...

- Do they?

The postcards that came to all of us?

- ...all of it, propaganda.

- Oh my gosh.

It's like 8 and a 1/2 by 11".

- Yeah, it's huge.

- "A ban will cost..."

Oh, we're looking at the cost angle.

Oh my gosh.

Concord has a history of not giving in,

as the seat of the American Revolution.

I mean, the penalty at that point in time was death.

You know, I mean you went out with your musket

and you didn't know whether you were coming back.

And here we're talking about bottled water,

for crying out loud.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- I think the story concerning Jean Hill and her request

to ban the sale of bottled water in the town really goes back

two years, and a Town Meeting we had two years ago seemed to me

to be very pro-environment.

- I've brought my own here tonight,

filled from the kitchen tap.

- However Jean's article, as you know,

had some flaws in the writing of it

and the Attorney General of Massachusetts

found that it was unenforceable.

And then in 2011, Jean resubmitted the article.

The mood of Town Meeting had changed.

- ...and what democracy means to me is freedom.

And one of those core freedoms is for Americans

to be able to choose what it is they eat, drink, and consume.

- Jean, as determined as she is, this is her life's work

and this is her major contribution.

And she's determined to go back this year.

- Good morning.

Last year, I believe that I had enough supporters to win.

However the vote was not called until very late, by which time

my weary supporters had departed.

- Town Meeting is very much by the people

and of the people for sure.

It's one of the oldest forms of government in the United States

and yet, except for here in New England,

most people don't really know about it.

On Article 38, the vote in favor was 265 -- the vote opposed,

272.

So it fails to pass by seven votes.

(APPLAUSE)

- So I lost by seven votes.

I can remember Jill just... she was so disappointed she just

ran out.

And I just sat there stunned.

- We can be fierce as lions if we're challenged,

and we will stand our ground as we have done in the past,

and we will triumph in the end.

And I just want to say congratulations

to Jean Hill, who's worked so hard for so long,

and I hope we see her next year.

Thank you.

- I am going on this journey again.

Some of these trees or so old.

- Town Manager serves as chief executive officer for the town,

and I work for a five member elected,

non-paid Board of Selectmen, who jointly share executive

authority with the Town Manager.

And I've been in my job here in Concord for about 18 years.

I have gone back and forth on it,

because I'm sympathetic with the local merchants in particular,

and we really want to try to keep

shopping viable in Concord.

We're a small town.

It's tough for small merchants to make a go of it

with such a small population base.

My prediction is -- I guess if asked today,

five months before Town Meeting convenes --

that they would probably be predisposed to say that

we've already discussed this.

We decided last year we don't want to do it,

and we still don't want to do it.

- The room across the hall is the Selectmen's room,

and that's where the Board of Selectmen

meet and make the executive decisions on a weekly basis.

Their meetings are recorded and rebroadcast on TV.

- ...and also our snow and ice account seems to still be

in good shape.

(LAUGHTER)

- You're not relinquishing it yet, however, right?

It being a couple of minutes past 8:00,

I'm going to skip ahead on the agenda to the presentation

on Article 32 by Jean Hill.

- This year's presentation will be similar to last year's

and will reflect the feedback we received.

- You know, I think the important thing

to know about the Article is that it's really not

about the fines.

It's really about the community making a choice

around this product.

- Changing behavior and changing the culture.

- Changing behavior with something

that sticks, and that's meaningful.

- Thank you very much.

- OK, great.

Appreciate your coming in tonight.

- Thank you very much.

- Thanks, Jill.

- And we will be taking a position at a future meeting.

- Thank you for letting us come.

- Admire your persistence.

- Look forward to seeing you again.

- Well I'm 84 and I'm still going, so I hope to...

- Keep it up.

We appreciate it.

- Time is a winged chariot at my heels.

(LAUGHTER)

- The industry has been active yet not visible.

My belief is they're using our local -- well,

he actually doesn't live in town --

the owner of our local grocery store to make their case.

The local grocery store now has a big bottled water vending

area with cases of single serve bottled water,

as well as apparently a big poster

on why people are supposed to vote against Article 32,

because it's going to hurt local businesses.

The owner of the store is Jim Crosby.

The name of the store is Crosby's Market.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- Hi I'm Jim Crosby, I own and operate Crosby's Marketplace

in Concord, Mass.

We've been there for 32 years, and we

appreciate your business.

We're a fairly small store, so this is pretty much

our water display.

But I mean, everything that isn't gallons or two and a half

gallons is all single serve.

So basically all of this, all of this, all of that

would be under one liter.

I'm the chair of the Massachusetts Food

Association this year.

I'll retire after this year.

Well, it represents really the entire industry.

And it's a legislative area where

we'll look for things that we have a common desire.

Last year, it was increasing the number of liquor licenses

that were available for food stores from three to five.

This year, the major focus is on eliminating the need

to price every single item in the store.

It's issues like that that I think we all

have a common desire.

I have mixed emotions of even getting involved with this,

but I do think that it's dangerous enough

to try to take a position.

I run a certain amount of personal risk with it.

- Next on our agenda, we have response to the plastic bottle

warrant article.

And Mr. Jim Crosby of Crosby's Market

is here to speak with us.

- Thank you for the opportunity.

Basically, being in the business for 50 years,

I can assure you that this could cause

some really serious damage to the local businesses

in Concord.

Water is a huge category now, and growing tremendously

over the last decade.

It's 30% of the entire beverage category.

And of the water category, 50% is in the single serve water

size under one liter.

People in Concord, as you know, are very active:

They walk, they jog, they are into athletics,

they march in parades.

And the single serve water, obviously,

is the most efficient and most convenient

form for people to hydrate.

I'd ask your consideration in certainly not recommending

this.

- I'm curious, have you been approached

by anybody from the bottle industry on this?

- Well, I am aware of the International Bottle Water

Association, in terms of their concern.

You're dealing with some fairly heavy companies -- Nestle,

Coke, Pepsi, those particular organizations.

But beyond that, I don't really have any knowledge of...

- OK, so you're not speaking for them?

- Oh, absolutely not.

- You're speaking on behalf of Crosby's Market...

- That's right.

- ...and other local merchants.

- Right.

- I find it amazing that Jim Crosby

is inflammatory toward us and we are

so afraid to go back at them.

- Crosby is not the bottled water industry.

- He is now gone to the Board of Selectmen,

he's been on the front page, he's

written a letter to the editor.

- I'm not saying that it's not appalling that he's...

- He's the front man for the industry.

- We can't prove that...

- Why else would he come out...?

- ...well, it is going to be bad for his business.

- Why would he come out in such a formal way?

Perhaps he's getting a lot of pressure from the industry.

I mean, it's a very visible step forward that he's taken.

We never saw him last year.

We never even saw him.

- I'm determined that this bottle ban will pass.

What happens is that once we do that, other towns will

say, "Well, we can do it.

If Concord did it, we can do it too."

And it will spread like a stone in the water,

and the rings going around it.

Thanks so much for having this party, Peggy.

- Well, it's fun to sit on the stone wall

and watch the parade go by.

- Oh I know, and you're so nice to have us here.

- Well, I'm wishing you luck on...

- You know what.

- ...down at Town Meeting.

- Well I wouldn't say that Jean Hill is a typical Concord

resident, but I would say that there's

a long history of individual citizens

who feel strongly about an issue and bringing it forward

to Town Meeting.

And I mentioned last year, the woman

who brought the right to dry clothes on a clothesline.

- (SINGING) The answer my friends is blowing in the wind.

The answer is blowing in the wind.

Take a picture of my flag, the tattered Earth.

My name is Peggy Brace, lived in Concord for about 35 years,

and presented an article at Town Meeting two years ago

on the right to dry clothes.

And it passed with flying colors.

Because this is our own single house, we can dry here.

There's no problem with me drying my clothes here.

But people who live in condos or restricted communities can't.

And it seems horrendous that you're not

allowed to save energy, against the law to save energy.

I mean, in this day and age, it doesn't make too much sense.

So this is for other people who don't have the permission

to hang up.

My grandmother dried laundry, my mother did,

and I just instinctively always hung out the laundry.

I think it takes about a minute and a half

to do a pair of sheets, and about four minutes

for a big huge load, so what are we

doing that we can't take five minutes out of our life

to hang up the laundry?

Here's Betty White from television,

and Jean Hill who's into the bottle bill,

and a sketch of me.

The artist had never seen me and there's no pictures of me

in the paper so I don't know how they knew what I looked like,

but it's kind of nice haircut and a nice blue dress.

This appeared in the Sunday Globe, "Grand Ambitions."

This is somebody who wrote about Concord ladies trying

to change the world.

- Hello?

- Jill?

- Yes?

- Hi, this is Jean Hill calling.

- Hi.

- I know that your position in the past

has been in opposition to my bottle bill.

- It still is.

- And it still is.

Are you aware that the permafrost in the North Pole

has melted?

- And banning water bottles in Concord

is not going to cure it.

- Well it's going to help, because the bottle...

- No, Jean.

We need to do this as a whole world and nation.

- Well, we do have to do it gradually.

- Yeah, but I think doing it in Concord is not my style.

- OK, well that's all right.

I understand.

- Have fun without me.

- OK, happy new year.

- Happy new year.

Bye.

- Asshole.

How do I get the hell out of here?

Eventually I will.

That's life.

And if you want to do something worthwhile

you have to expect rebuttals, and you have to work at it

and have a thick skin.

But my feeling is that I want to be all used up

before I go on to another world where there

are no plastic water bottles.

- I like bottled water and I like having it as an option.

If Jean Hill and her supporters want

to move our town forward and attain sustainability, live

a greener life, they should have figured out a way

to bring us all together in the circle instead of polarizing

and dividing this community.

- Make sure you use your table of contents

to sequence the pages in your binder.

- Can we...

- Get out there and find some leaves.

- Thank you!

- For the first time in history, we're

presented with a new situation happening

in the world's oceans.

There's a new flavor in the food chain

and it's not too appetizing: plastic.

In the ocean, there are rotating ocean currents known as gyres.

But along with these swirling wonders of the sea,

there's a new resident -- trash, trash, and more trash.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the main culprit here.

Yes, it's the largest landfill in the world,

in the middle of the ocean.

And the new meal in town is plastic,

making up 90% of the trash in the ocean.

Most of the debris in the garbage patch is composed

of small plastic pieces suspended in the upper water

column -- difficult to see, even with the human eye.

The plastic breaks down into tiny particles

and then it's consumed by ocean life.

So what does this mean?

Well, let's just say this -- A host of other animals,

including humans, will ingest this trash via the food chain.

So let's remember: just because it's out of sight,

it's not out of mind.

- Oh, and there's an environmental club.

That's great!

- So there was a stigma around using tap water

at the high school, and the hydration station

has really taken that away.

Here's a hydration station outside the main office.

It saved the equivalent of 11,545 bottles of water.

And it's chilled and it's filtered,

and it really changed the way people

drink at the high school.

- "Trash Talk."

Wow, this school is really grooving.

They're on a roll.

- The idea is not to redo what we did last year,

but to have something more focused, more effective,

to get the votes that we need at Town Meeting in April.

- And also it's a year later, so now at least I'll be 18,

and a lot of my friends will be 18 as well.

So we'll have a little more say in it and we can now vote, too.

That was really...

- Oh, that's right.

- ...that was really aggravating because Maggie and I were

so for this Article passing, but we couldn't actually vote.

- You have four of them, and that's

where you spent your money from the grant?

- Mm-hmm.

- Good for you.

(LAUGHTER)

- So you just place your bottle right there...

- And there it goes, automatically.

- OK, and now...

and I can also not only get water from here,

but I can get it from here.

It's delicious.

(LAUGHTER)

Best water I've ever had.

The young people are the ones who

are going to have to think about the future.

They'll have to take over from the older folks

to work for environmental issues and all other things that will

make the world a better place.

- I'm going to go in the front.

Bye, Maggie.

Next year.

- Here we go, off to town hall to vote.

- So why are you registering to vote?

- First because I haven't registered yet,

so I can vote in the primaries and in the bottled water

banning.

That's why we're here, because we're informed citizens.

Oh, there it is.

- "Water quality of Concord Public Works".

OK.

This is the water quality annual report for Concord's water,

I guess.

There are no violations in our water.

We're here to register to vote.

- Would it be too late to switch to Independent

so I can vote tomorrow?

- Please sign here.

- But as of today, you're registered for Town Meeting.

- Thank you so much.

- You're welcome.

Have a good day.

- Good job!

- So now is everyone going to vote for my Article

to ban bottled water?

- Heck, yeah!

- Heck yeah, you are!

- Every Town Meeting has local customs and procedures

that reflect the character and, yes, sometimes the characters

of your community.

- I'm Ed Newman, the moderator from Stow, Massachusetts.

In the next few minutes, we'll learn

about the document used in Town Meeting called the warrant.

- The basic process is that individuals submit articles

for the town warrant, and it's a published document

that is mailed to every household

within the town of Concord.

So the warrant is delivered to every home in Concord

by the end of January, mid-February,

so that people have a chance to engage

in what is it that's coming up at April's Town Meeting.

- Once the warrant article is sent

to every household in Concord, that's when the dice is cast.

- I wanted to start off by showing you

this item that appeared in the Concord Journal last week.

- Oh, good.

- It did?

- And...

yes, yes, "Drink to Your Health",

how water is really important.

- I didn't even see that.

- Well, I'm hoping most people didn't.

- Who wrote the article?

- "To learn more about healthy hydration,

visit www.nestlewaters.com."

- Oh, give me a break.

- Yeah.

- Do you think they did that on purpose because they

knew of the stirrings going on?

- Absolutely.

- I want to see that.

I've been trying to do this for three years.

And I'm not a little old lady...

- We know that.

(LAUGHTER)

- I mean, it was a seven vote difference.

They had 272 votes last year, so the question really comes down

to, can they incite any more kind of response

from this community?

- But it just seems like one of those crazy ideas that's

not going to get very far.

It's too drastic.

I mean, are people gonna line up at a hose with a bucket

and get their daily water supply?

No.

- I just think the way the world is now,

people want bottled water.

A lot of people don't drink... they don't want tap water

to drink.

It hurts businesses because the whole country is like this.

We have bottled water and that's the way it is.

So unless there's a wholesale change in people's ideas about

that -- switching over to glass or some other way to do it --

I mean, it's just going to hurt businesses that this happens

because everything will have to change.

The way of life... it's people's way of life right now.

- My name is Wade Rubenstein.

I'm the owner of Reasons To Be Cheerful, a dessert

cafe in Concord, Massachusetts.

We use town water.

In an ice cream shop, you use a lot of water.

We use water to, obviously, keep everything

cleaned and sanitized.

We also use water to make our sorbet,

so our sorbet uses town water.

We use water for our coffee.

We use a lot of water, yeah.

And we offer water to our customers.

We always have a pitcher or two of filtered tap

water available to our customers at any time.

It exceeds the EPA and state standards.

I live in town and I'm very proud of our water.

- My name's Maggie St. Jean.

I am a senior at Concord-Carlisle High School.

I have been working with Jill Appel and Jean on the bill.

Here you are.

And having the sign outside on a hot day like today,

having free water refills, I mean,

that's fantastic because we have such filtered and delicious

water here in Concord, which is really just a privilege.

I mean, I don't think there's any necessity

for bottled water at all.

- When I was their age, bottled water

wasn't an issue because it didn't exist.

We got water out of the tap, we got water out of the bubbler.

When I say the word "bubbler" to my kids,

they look at me like I'm from Mars.

But we had water fountains.

We had them in school, we had them in public parks,

and that's where we turned to for water

when we were thirsty outside.

- All right.

I'm Debra Stark, and I opened Debra's Natural Gourmet

in 1989.

Well, I was brought up on natural foods

and natural medicine, and truly have never known anything but.

So it's always been my passion.

I was always convinced that if I can convince the world

to eat better or to do things a little differently, that we

wouldn't be in the mess we are with the health care crisis.

So that truly has always been my passion.

So this is all the plastic water bottles we have left.

There's so many restrictions out there

that don't make sense to me, that are supposed be protecting

our health and freedom.

So this is one that I think truly

would protect our health and the future of our planet.

And who knows what else that we don't know about?

That's what worries me.

I don't know what we don't know yet.

Look at all... every year, we find out something that we

didn't know.

Although my mother used to know everything.

(LAUGHTER)

- Next on the agenda is Article 32,

the article on bottled water.

- Excuse me, I don't know if this is appropriate or not.

But Mr. Crosby, of the Crosby Market,

is afraid of losing business and...

- Jean, excuse me just a minute.

We have citizen comments later in the agenda.

Would you like...

- I just want to leave this...

- OK.

- It's for your...

and you can read it.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Jean, would you like to make a citizen comment

before you leave?

- Yes.

Jean Hill, Concord Green.

- Have a seat, Jean.

- Oh, yes.

- So we can hear you better.

- This letter that I've just given to Chris explains a way

that might help... it's to the CEO.

I wrote a letter to the CEO and made some suggestions that

might help them regain lost revenue if the bottle

ban passes, and that was selling reusable bottles

of various sizes.

And that's what my letter says.

- Thank you very much.

Thank you for sharing it with us tonight.

- You're welcome.

- This is the same board that was here last year

and we did not take a position on it,

and I suggest that we not take a position on it again.

Individually, I think we all have strong feelings about it,

but I think it's something that the community has to decide

what they value as a community.

I think the voters have to make a decision.

- Yeah.

I would say that if I wasn't sitting at this table,

I would probably vote for it.

- It's just...

it's a little depressing sometimes

that people don't think of this as a chance

to step forward and be leaders.

And they don't seem to think.

They think that we're going to go on the way we

are right now forever.

And I don't think we are.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- I titled this sermon "Earth to Church: Can I Get a Witness?"

Let's become "Golden Rule" activists

as we move into new behaviors, consuming less, sharing more,

curbing our desire to acquire by expanding our inner world.

And on this new Earth, we must recognize

that future generations are no less our neighbors than those

seated next to us in the pews.

You might think of this as Golden Rule 2.0.

- Please, be seated.

- You know, the...

it's time to start villainizing bottled water.

So I'm Adriana Cohen.

I'd consider myself a good person and a good mother.

That's not all I do is mothering.

I do have a career.

I am a philanthropist, I am politically engaged.

I have a business background, PR and marketing.

I also have a strong fundraising background.

I do a lot of very effective fundraising

for very famous successful politicians, and charities,

and nonprofits.

- This is just a small shot across the bow

of the bottled water industry.

I'm Mary White.

I've been living in this neighborhood in Concord

for 36 years.

My first real activism was in the 1980s.

- Water is a legal product, and I think it's wrong for people

to impose and inflict their own personal political agenda

on the entire community because they're anti-corporation.

- I see this issue as a juxtaposition of two freedoms:

the freedom to buy what we want regardless of the consequences,

or the freedom to choose not to do that in order

to protect the freedom of communities

to control their own natural water resources.

What happens if a water company drains the water in an area?

They simply move on to another area.

- I can't believe someone would be against that.

Corporations -- I don't care who they are --

they're job creators.

They create opportunities for people so that they can live,

they can feed their families.

- One of the major problems with private possession of water

is it leaves Nature high and dry.

Nature cannot defend itself.

- I mean, what's going to happen next year at Town Meeting?

Are residents -- tax paying residents who contribute

so much to the community in so many ways --

going to be ticketed for buying a product these eco-groups

don't like?

I mean, that's not right and it's not American.

- Americans buy enough bottled water in the United States

in one week to circle the globe five times.

40 years ago, this industry barely existed.

And that whole industry, which did not exist 40 years ago,

is now the third largest industry in the world

only behind electricity and oil.

(CHATTER)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

- (SINGING) Got the sugar blues.

Oh, the sweet sugar blues...

I love my gal, sweet chickadee.

Cluck on, gal, and cut the blues on me.

I'm going to Heaven, I'm going to bed.

I'm going to lay down tonight.

Now I'm all confused...

- There's still question about whether or not the bottle

itself is a hazard...

- Right.

- ...the chemical compound of the bottle.

- It would be really great if Boston

had more fountains in the same way that Paris does,

if you've ever been to Paris.

- If you're going to take away the bottled water convenience

-- if you're going to walk in the convenience store and grab

a bottle of water because you're thirsty --

you need to provide an alternative.

In America it's about convenience,

so we're very used to being able to go anywhere and grab

what we want.

This town government is trying to accelerate the behavior

by forcing the issue, saying, "You know what, we're not

going to sell it anymore.

You guys are going to change your behavior.

Now."

(APPLAUSE)

- They're all ready for Patriot's Day.

- I think I'm a little nervous that some weird stuff is going

to happen and we're going to have bad luck

and we're going to lose.

And I hope that's not the case because this is definitely

our last chance.

It's not going to happen again next year.

As an activist, I deal with disappointment every day.

You know that.

- I know, I know.

- You absolutely know that.

- I do.

- Yesterday, I didn't get the support...

- Same thing for ministers.

- ...of the League of Women Voters,

and they supported us last year.

My astrological forecast told me that good fortune

was heading my way, but I had to be pushing it.

(LAUGHTER)

So I think I've been able to make

some inroads with some groups.

I tend to be action oriented.

The only way you achieve meaningful change in society

today is to get involved in the political process.

- And you believe that, but how would

you inspire them to join you in that belief?

- How do you open up closed minds?

I mean, really...

- That's not very appreciative of you.

(LAUGHTER)

- I know.

- How do you increase flexibility in tight minds?

- Well I think you work incrementally, OK?

But you push for something more that's

outside of their comfort zone.

So yes, seek first to understand then to be understood.

But the big issue really is sometimes

people just need help to get out of their comfort zones.

- These are all quotes from Henry David Thoreau.

- The final quote over there is Thoreau's.

"Can there be any greater miracle than for an instant

for us to look through each other's eyes?"

- Right.

- And I think that's the essence of this.

There is a water bill to pass.

There is a huge environmental opportunity

in passing that bill.

- Right.

- But there's just as much of an opportunity for Concord

to recognize the diversity within the community,

to be able to look at that issue through someone else's eyes.

There's that tension, being able to stand up

for what you believe in, make room for the other.

And I don't know, there's a miracle

waiting to happen there.

- We are the home of Henry David Thoreau.

He's the original environmentalist.

So he's my favorite environmentalist.

This is a guy who truly loved the environment and nature,

but wasn't profiting off of it.

- I think if Thoreau were alive today,

he would be my number one supporter.

- Amazing fellow, Henry David Thoreau.

- "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." --

"Walden" by Henry Thoreau.

Hi, I'm Tom Blanding, I'm a local Thoreau scholar

and I've spent my life studying Henry David Thoreau.

He's what I like to call our "philosopher of balance".

And sometimes we think of Thoreau

as being very radical in his thought,

but he's calling for a balance between civilization

and nature.

So if he seems extreme in his position,

it's because we've become so extreme in ours.

He's best known for the work "Walden,"

which describes his two years, two months, and two days

he lived at Walden Pond in a little house

that he built for himself.

Thoreau affected many aspects of world culture

through his writings.

Martin Luther King Junior had said

that Thoreau's ideas are more alive today than ever before.

Mahatma Gandhi said that Thoreau had a great influence

on his movement in India.

I think what appeals to me most about Thoreau --

in broadest terms -- would be his overall worldview,

his view that this world is composed of a universal soul

and nature which expresses that universal soul.

- Well of course, the big thing of his life

was simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.

You should your count your projects

in one hand, keep your life very simple,

which of course none of us do nowadays.

Cluttered up.

But it's a nice concept to think about.

(CHATTER)

- You damn rebels.

Disperse!

Disperse, I say!

Damn you, return to your homes!

Are you deaf?

(CROWD ARGUING)

- They poured their generous blood like water

before they knew whether it would

fertilize the land of freedom, or the land of their bondage.

The war for American Independence had begun indeed.

The Regulars will continue their march to Concord,

eight miles west.

At Concord, they will be forced to begin a rapid retreat

as colonial opposition stiffens.

- Fire!

Huzzah!

- OK, right here, right now, I think we're

trying to start a conversation.

To me, if we do this now, if we pass this thing now,

what happens versus if we don't pass it.

And if we don't pass it, nothing is going to happen.

- I'm calling you in support of the local bottled water ban

article that's coming up before Town Meeting.

- Take care, bye-bye.

I think I'm going to die.

- Hi I'm Steve Weezer, I work with the Metrowest Daily News.

This is where we print the Concord Journal.

(RINGING)

- Today's worry is what's coming out in the Concord Journal,

and what's going to hit us.

Because I know there's a bunch of stuff

that will appear in the Concord Journal today.

And I wrote a guest commentary.

I think that's pretty good, but I

know that there are two other guest

commentaries that are opposed to the bottled water bylaw.

And so part of what I have to do is stop myself

from freaking out and saying, oh my god, we're

going to Hell in a hand basket.

- I was going to do "Prohibition is back."

That was going to be my title.

"Capping our freedom.

Prohibition is heavy handed and goes too far.

If you don't like the idea of bottled water, don't buy it.

Enough is enough.

This ban is not an appropriate avenue

for attaining sustainability and infringes on our rights.

When this issue comes to a vote in April,

I hope each resident of Concord will

come show their support for basic civil liberties

and common sense and vote against the ban

on bottled water."

- That's great.

- Thank you.

I've gotten really great feedback on this,

a lot of people.

How Jean Hill wants to do it and Jill Appel,

heavy fisted with the prohibition...

- Right.

- And what my fear is that if Concord passes

this bottled water ban, then there'll

be all these copycat towns.

- If you just logically plod through what

is going to happen as a result and go then into that,

it's like a tree.

You go up the branch, go over here,

and there's going to be... it just...

- All these different...

- You have to look at all the limbs of what's

going to happen as a result of it,

and then see where you are at the top of the tree at the end

of the day.

- Maybe it's OK that Concord is the place where

it gets talked about and the pros and cons

are really laid out there.

So that everybody in the country gets educated.

But if it passes, that is the wrong...

- It is.

- It is the wrong thing.

- ...message.

And it's ineffective.

- I'm quoted everywhere in the media

because people respect my views, and they want to hear from me.

And so I appreciate the media giving me that opportunity

to express my views.

I'm going to be going on CBS again

on Monday to talk about the bottled water

ban and next steps.

- We fight against political correctness

here on Nightside at so many levels.

- The smartest guy on radio.

- And I want to welcome Adriana Cohen, a business executive,

public relations specialist.

And you are the proud mom of three kids.

You don't look like you're old enough to have three kids.

- I'm a lucky lady.

- Wow, you're busy, busy, busy, busy.

We heard about this battle in Concord,

and I quite frankly didn't understand.

I am a huge supporter of extending the bottle bill.

Are you familiar with the bottle bill in Massachusetts?

- Well, yes...

- Yes, it applies...

- But it only has a $0.05 deposit.

And that's not enough.

- Well, you know what, Jean?

You're wrong on that because the recycling of beer bottles

and beer cans and carbonated beverages in Massachusetts

has been a huge success.

And all we have to do is apply that to the...

I'm with you on applying it to water bottles, and sports

drinks, and iced tea, and everything, Jean.

- I can't...

look, I'm 84 years old.

- Right.

- I can't fight the whole bottled industry.

- Well, Jean, I will stand shoulder

to shoulder with you, Jean, and I will be there with you.

I will be there with you.

But to focus just on water bottles, to me,

is discriminatory.

- I agree, it's very short-sighted because what

about all the other dozens and dozens of beverages that are

contained in plastic?

I mean...

- May I say this, Adriana?

I assume this is Adriana.

- Yes, it is.

- And this is Dan.

(LAUGHTER)

- And Dan.

May I say this?

What people drink, what children drink

is determined by parental guidance.

They want their children to be healthy

and they don't want them to drink sugary drinks.

- And you want to take water away from them, Jean.

You want to take water.

You want to take water.

- You can...

Concord tap water...

- You want to take water.

You want to take water, the source, the life

spring of the world, away from young children, Jean.

I don't understand this.

- Oh, give me a break.

You don't know what you're talking about.

- I think I do.

You know what we could do maybe, Jean?

We could have you and Adriana back in studio together,

and we could have a whole hour debate.

Would you like to do that?

- I don't want to have anything to do with Adriana.

- Oh, well that's impolite, Jean.

- That's not nice.

- I think...

- That's not nice.

That is not nice.

- Oh, Jean.

- You know,Jean, you can't go around disparaging people,

you know.

- Well, you know what?

Jean, if you don't want to come in and share

the microphone with Adriana, there's

nothing more that I can say.

Unfortunately, the one next thing I have to do

is say goodnight, Jean.

OK?

- All right, good night.

- Have a great night, good night.

If you weren't on Adriana's side before that call,

you have to be now.

We'll be back after this.

- Oh, boy.

I think I really screwed up.

(RADIO PLAYING)

- Nobody has a sense of urgency on this environmental stuff.

You know, the nature of pushing the edge of the envelope

is that is you're invariably disappointed.

This is a perfect way to respond at a community level

to the power of corporations.

Perfect.

They can't f------ get out of their own way.

(CHATTER)

- But this is the big warrant for tonight.

- Yes, let's just focus on this.

- How do you do, Nora?

It's nice to meet you.

- OK, good.

- All right, Jill.

Don't worry.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(BELL RINGING)

- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to the third night of Concord Town Meeting.

This is the 376th consecutive year

that the citizens of Concord have

met in the spring for annual Town Meeting.

I see that a quorum is present, and I do so declare.

We have a pre-scheduled item of high interest.

Ms. Hill moves that the town take affirmative action

on Article 32 as printed in the warrant.

- The Board of Selectmen did not reach a consensus regarding

Article 32, and is therefore not making

a recommendation tonight.

Our job is to think about what's best for Concord,

whereas in many ways Article 32 is concerned about what's

best for the world.

Further, if Article 32 passes, there's

a good chance that the town would

be sued on constitutional and other grounds

by organizations representing bottling interests.

In such litigation, it's likely to be...

to make the cost of defense so expensive

that Concord and other towns would be cowed into submission.

Whether we want to enact a ban, and see it

through to its conclusion, depends

on what we value as citizens of Concord.

- Certainly nothing wrong with plastic.

And in my impression, there's nothing wrong with water.

But plastics not going away.

And what we really have to do, I think,

is continue to encourage people to recycle and educate more.

I mean, basically, Concord is the place where it all started,

where freedom is perhaps the most important thing.

I simply hope that those freedoms

would be maintained tonight.

(APPLAUSE)

- As I said before, there's no..

no demonstrations of clapping, or hissing.

Either way, this is a deliberative body and not

a pep rally.

- Mr. Moderator, ladies and gentlemen,

I stand alone, but confident.

I've kept an open mind and I do speak from the heart.

The whole country is watching us now.

Watch out, watch out.

- And I'm a fascist.

- As a lifetime Concord resident,

my husband and I are both strongly

against passing this article.

My strong opposition stems from the lack of a true cost benefit

analysis of the proposed restriction.

I encourage everyone to oppose this well-intentioned

but largely unwise, ill-conceived

and potentially harmful bylaw.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

Ms. Cohen?

- I am against...

- Hi.

I'm against the bottle water ban because it is prohibition.

Perhaps you've forgotten the Declaration of Independence.

I'd like to recite a line from the Declaration of Independence

to you.

"Man has certain unalienable rights

to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

When a person no longer has the liberty

to decide for themselves and their children

what products they're going to put in their body

and what products they're going to buy,

we no longer live in a free society.

This reminds me of a country where dictators dictate...

- Oh, come on.

- Please be in order.

- ...to the masses what they're allowed to buy.

I encourage you to think very carefully about your vote

tonight because it infringes upon our freedom.

- If we could go to the cafeteria, please.

- The Declaration of Independence

was referenced tonight.

Clean air and clean water, those are inalienable rights too.

We have to make a stand against this kind of stuff

at some point.

In 15 years, in 20 years, communities

all across the world are going to be

doing what we're proposing to do here tonight,

because it's the right thing to do, it's the only thing to do.

There have been allusions tonight

to the revolutions in Concord.

And those are not out of place, and I know maybe some of us

may have heard that tonight and thought, "Oh, this

isn't as big as the American Revolution",

or "This isn't the Literary Revolution."

But you know what?

We're in the midst of an environmental crisis right now,

and here is a chance to do something about it

right here in Concord.

Thank you.

- Thank you, Mr. Goodman.

And again, please keep your reactions between your ears.

Microphone number two.

- We have a chance here in Concord to send a message that

if our legislatures cannot get the job done,

we can act locally.

We can show the way, set the example, shame the legislators,

maybe provoke them to act.

- Thank you very much.

- In my 11 seconds left...

- Well we've got so many people waiting,

and you had such a powerful wind up.

(LAUGHTER)

If we could go to the cafeteria, please.

- These corporations are drilling

for water that otherwise would be flowing for free.

They're spending a lot of money to tell us how to vote.

Let's not do it their way.

- The spirit of April 19th lives on in this town,

the spirit of creating a new, more rational and more

just world.

Democracy is not just about consumer freedom,

it's about responsible self-governance.

(BELL RINGS)

Perfect!

(LAUGHTER)

- I am a senior at the high school and...

- I...

just to clarify, Mr. Beezey, are you a registered voter?

- I am a registered voter, yes.

- Excellent, thank you.

- And I'd like to remind you guys

that you guys will not see the repercussions

of these carcinogens coming through our children.

They will be through my children and my generation's children.

And so I'd just like you to hand down Concord to us

in a safe, better organized town.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

- We are in the midst of a major global water shortage.

The industry is gaining control of water resources

at an unprecedented rate.

This article is revolutionary.

But Concord, we have revolution in our genes.

- To be clear -- if you are in favor of the citizen petition,

please rise and hold the ballots up if you would, please.

Thank you.

And all who are opposed, please rise and hold your ballots

high.

- I don't think I can stand it if we lose.

We won't lose.

- It could happen.

- What do you think?

- I think there are a lot of young parents,

young 30-somethings that showed up here who don't want anybody

telling them what they can't buy.

And that they don't care, really,

about what they're leaving their kids.

They care about...

- Convenience.

- They want to choose what's on the shelf.

- Yeah, yeah.

They feel privileged.

- Yeah.

I've lost all my fingernails...

except for that one.

It's just that it's been a bad week.

- Really?

(LAUGHTER)

You've done everything you could.

I've done everything I could.

- Yeah.

- If it loses, at least we fought a good fight.

- Yup.

- And I'll be back next year, if it does lose.

- Well I won't be with you, dear.

I've got to something different next year.

- I know.

- Let's win this year, OK?

- Yeah, I think...

I think that would be the best solution.

(BELL RINGING)

- Could I have your attention please?

In a vote by the moderators in each of the three rooms,

and in some case with two separate counters where

the counters reach the exact same number, Article 32 --

403 Yes', 364 No's -- passes by a margin of 39 votes.

- Yeah!

(APPLAUSE)

- Oh, thank God.

Oh, Jill...

- All right.

Good job, dear.

- Well, listen, I couldn't have...

I wouldn't be here without you.

You know that.

- Well, I wouldn't be here without you, honey.

This is a mutual admiration.

You're the lefty, I'm the righty.

You're the creative idea girl...

- You got the ball rolling...

- ...I'm the practical, get-it-done girl.

- She's the one...

- We're a perfect match.

- I know, we're a team.

- You got the ball rolling, and she grabbed it and ran with it.

- Yeah, that's right.

- Oh my gosh, it's a good thing I had some free time.

(LAUGHTER)

- Well, what are you going to do?

Go to Italy with your boyfriend.

- Oh, all right.

Well, I've got to play golf tomorrow.

And then I've got to bike on Friday.

So those are my next appointments.

- Well, I think you don't get enough exercise.

- Yeah, you think?

I haven't recently.

- Well...

- All right, let's go.

- Well, I have to get disconnected.

- Oh, OK.

- So I'm supposed to...

Cut!

- ...Concord Town Meeting, they voted now to ban plastic water

bottles.

Are you kidding me?

Nope.

Took them three years, but apparently they have convinced

everybody, yes, this is the scourge of the Earth

and it'll be banned -- at least until somebody a little higher

up than the Concord Town Meetings members says "No,

that's absolutely crazy."

Andrea Cohen has been involved in this since day one.

Andrea, good morning.

- Hi, Jeff, how are you?

- I'm doing well, and yourself?

- I'm doing great.

Yeah, actually not doing great because I'm bummed out

that this ridiculous, overreaching bottled water ban

took place in Concord last night.

- "On September 5th, 2012, Concord

became the first community in the nation

to approve a ban on plastic bottles."

We made it to Wikipedia.

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