Let’s break it down. (Cue cool hip hop beat.)

70.8 percent of the Earth is covered in water. Humans are more than 60 percent water. And my wife can cover 99 percent of Lake Superior with tears after watching The Notebook.

So why do we need to save water again?

Let the folks at Planet Green explain. On its Web site (planetgreen.com) and TV channel (ch. 286 on Direct TV), Planet Green will be showcasing a month-long special called “Blue August,” starting Aug. 1.

On the Planet Green channel, you’ll be able to watch the award-winning Blue Planet series, brain-infusing segments featuring world-renowned conservationists and explorers like Phillipe and Alexandra Cousteau, and documentaries upon documentaries about everything H²O.

Online, you can learn how to shop for fish that’s good for the planet and for the palate (I shan’t take credit for that line, taken straight from the planetgreen.com), the process of water purification (bbooooorrrriiiinnngggg) that mimics nature (oh! Now that I could watch!), and of course how you can make a difference. After all, us 20 somethings have been making a difference since Michael Jackson was alive. And Black. (Oof, too soon?)

Planetgreen.com gives us ‘10 ways to protect our beaches,’ how and where to ‘volunteer with Ocean Conservancy’ for us whale huggers, ‘9 ways we can save the ocean and save ourselves,’ and why you should write to President Obama about his ocean policy.

So go green by loving blue. And don’t forget to prop yourself in front of your TV or fire up the Interweb to catch “Blue August,” a drier alternative to The Notebook.

Save the world. Save your green.

Unless you’re a tree burner, you all know about the awesomeness of re-useable aluminum bottles. Why buy plastic bottle after plastic bottle when you can buy one aluminum bottle, re-fill it, and use it forever? There ya go. “Save the world. Save your green.” in 42 words.

OK, I actually can offer more. Much of the U.S. market is saturated with Klean Kanteen, the Sony to everyone else’s Samsung. They’re sleek, sturdy, and boring. Now, not to discredit Kleen Kanteen or diminish their income … but … there is a more hip, more 20-something, more charitable aluminum bottle company called SIGG.

Check out their site, www.mysigg.com, and you will find fashionable aluminum bottles. Right now, SIGG has an “Independent Spirit of America” special. Buy one of these specially designed bottles, and a $1 goes to the Sierra Club, a North American environmental charity.

Still, you can’t go wrong with either company. Sigg and Klean Kanteen are both members of the company One Percent of the Planet (onepercentfortheplanet.com), the Bono to everyone else’s Slash.

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Odeen Domingo is writing a bi-weekly column on eco-friendly topics for HandsIn.org. He is a newspaper journalist and the editorial director of eeko studio, a green design and branding firm based in Phoenix, Ariz. (eekostudio.com; blog.eekostudio.com)