Greenwashing

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• Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, November 25

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  There’s a lot to be thankful this morning, readers. The majority of Americans believe that climate change is happening , and want to do something about it.  Someday, your cell phone’s waste heat could actually make its battery last longer .  There’s hope for a rise in e-recycling . Something else we’re ...
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• Carbon Offsets: Angels Or Devils?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  In George Monbiot’s book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, he compares buying and selling carbon offsets to “pushing the food around on your plate to create the impression that you have eaten.” Responsible Travel might agree with Monbiot’s statement. Last month the company canceled its carbon offset ...
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• A Quick Interview With Nick Corcodilos of Ask The Headhunter

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  I had a chance to do a quick email interview with Nick Corcodilos, author of the Ask a Headhunter Blog and a frequent contributor to Fast Company. My questions for Nick concern the rise of so-called “green” recruiting firms and other folks capitalizing on the rise of green jobs – are they for real? [...]
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• NBC Green Week – Really?

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 130
  Well, they had it coming.  Last week, NBC Universal (owned by GE ) declared it Green Week on the network, an effort within its larger Green is Universal campaign.  Before this week, I just brushed it off as yet another big company jumping on the bandwagon of using green to market themselves as hip, cool, forward ...
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• Ecosense Brand Insecticide Not Eco-Friendly, Makes No Sense [Disclaimers]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 797
  Reader Dan came across Orthos Ecosense insecticide in the store, and noticed something strange. The name "Ecosense" implies some kind of crunchy environmental friendliness, does it not? Why, its even written in green right on the package. So why does the package also have the disclaimer, "not intended to imply ...
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• 6 Tips For Cutting Through Greenwashing

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  Plenty of products are trotting out their green credentials, but how can consumers and the people who build and decorate homes for us - architects, builders and interior designers, tell what’s transparently green, or greenwashing?Metropolis magazine recently asked designers - builders, architects and interior ...
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• Greenwash, blackwash: two faces of conservation evil

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 410
  Beware false prophets, and especially those masquerading as conservationists (or at least ‘green’) when they are not, in fact, doing anything for conservation at all . But this blog site isn’t about typical greenie evil-corporation-making-a-mess-of-the-Earth sermons (there are plenty of those); it’s instead ...
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• Self Reporting Doesn’t Cut it: Why We Need a National GHG Measurement System

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  Say you’re the Mayor of San Francisco. You’re spending million of dollars every year to increase energy efficiency, install solar panels and encourage the use of electric cars — all in an effort to lower your city’s greenhouse gas emissions, in line with (hypothetical) newly-enacted Federal greenhouse gas ...
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• Can A Company That Makes Roundup Be Sustainable?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  While waiting for the PBS show, the NewsHour to begin, I saw a Monsanto advertisement which said, “Monsanto…producing more, conversing more…that’s sustainable agriculture.” On Monsanto’s website the company state that its commitment is to “help farmers produce more and conserve more” by 2030. One of ...
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• Conscious Capitalism/CSR Creates True Fans

  
  The Buzz Bin — Authority: 119
  The really old school capitalists like to say that the only business of business is to provide a return to shareholders. Long before the concept of “stakeholders” came into being, business was conducted, customers and suppliers were treated fairly or not, and it all somehow moved along. Now, companies need to do ...
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• NYT: US Chamber has not expressed support for any proposals to cap emissions

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 701
  When we last left the Chamber of Commerce, Apple was leaving over their ‘frustrating’ global warming denialism.  NRDC’s Pete Altman has the latest on the incredible shrinking Chamber in a piece first published here . John Broder has an illuminating story in today’s New York Times “Storm Over the ...
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• Do consumer demands and ‘greenwashing’ affect hotels’ sustainability efforts?

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 126
  A new roundtable study at Cornell University is trying to find the mythical “green bullet” when it comes to green hotels, as well as define what “green travel” really means, once and for all. Produced by Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) and chaired by Associate Professor David Sherwyn, Cornell’s ...
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• Uber-ironic 1962 ad touts oil’s ability to melt glaciers!

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 701
  David Roberts at Grist has the winner of the irony-can-be-so-ironic award: From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine , available on Google ...
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• 8 Eco Terms Everyone Should Know: From COP15 to Astro-Turfing

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 537
  Sustainability has become so ingrained into my life that sometimes I inadvertently assume everyone knows what I’m talking about. My days are filled with issues such as Climate Change , renewable energy, recycling, LEED buildings, CO2 sensors, de-lamping and composting . The reason for this is because when I’m ...
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• Campaign against Sustainable Forestry Initiative escalates

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  ForestEthics versus SFI. The green industry is overwhelmed by trustmarks and certification organizatons. As a result, consumers don’t know whom to believe anymore. As it turns out SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) is funded and managed primarily by large logging companies, whereas ForestEthics is an ...
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• Separating the Green from the Wash

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  From $50 bamboo T-shirts to environmental coloring books handed out by petroleum companies, greenwashing continues to be high on my list of "Things That Make Me Want To Rip My Hair Out and Then Go Do Worse to the People Responsible." The worst part, of course, is that its often not easy to know when your green is ...
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• Organized Crime Mixed Up in Environmental Initiatives — Again.

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  As goes the financial markets, so go the renewable energy markets. If there’s an opportunity to make a buck, or in this case, a euro, by ripping people off, rest assured, someone will do it.In the latest case, two Italian businessmen are accused of involvement in a scheme to collect public subsidies for wind power ...
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• UK Staff Clueless about Company Green Policy

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  If you asked most people if they thought their office was environmentally friendly, most would think of the recycling bin next to the copy machine and answer that they thought their company was green.  A recent study confirmed that most United Kingdom employees think that their company is green, when in reality it ...
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• 5 Things You Can Do to Not Be an Eco Hypocrite

  
  swyyne — Authority: 100
  Am I Dwight? Sure, this video is a gross exaggeration, but, like every scenario on The Office, it’s got some roots in the truth. As an “environmentalist” and someone who publicly encourages others to clean up their acts and turn to a greener lifestyle, I try to do as much as I can to actually walk the walk ...
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• San Francisco Green Festival 2009 Shows How a True "Green" Event Should Be Run

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  This weekend, San Francisco held Green Festival, the nations largest green consumer living event. Over 40,000 people packed into the Concourse Exhibition Center to see over 350 businesses, artists, nonprofits, and over 125 speakers and musicians for a weekend of all things green. It was jam packed, and ever time I ...
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