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• Brazil: When the destroyers begin to realize they must undestroy

  
  Forest Policy Research — Authority: 109
  “Nobody wants to have problems with the environment. And we have a cast of farmers who want to solve their problems and sleep soundly at night,” Bertinatto Copetti says.Darci Eichelt cleared and plowed as much land as he could when he first arrived in Lucas do Rio Verde in central Mato Grosso state more than [...]
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• John Mackey, health care, Friedman, and wisdom…

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 116
  The problem with the free market is that the profit motive trumps all other concerns, which leads to monopolization of societies by powerful corporations. – MeI’ve been pretty hands-off with the whole health-care debate in more public settings.  I don’t shy away from talking about it around the dinner table at ...
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• Todays new word--greenwashing

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 436
  Although Ive talked about this a lot (I receive all my husbands e-newsletters in architecture, materials, and construction methods), I didnt have a term. "Greenwashing," a pejorative term derived from the term "whitewashing," was coined by environmental activists to describe efforts by corporations to portray ...
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• Earth to Walmart: Flat Screen TVs can never be green.

  
  The Writing On The Wal — Authority: 137
  I am grateful to one of our readers for sending me an electronic version of an article from a very recent Walmart World called “A Sustainability Game-Changer.” The subject is the not-nearly-as-much-as-meets-the-eye Walmart Sustainability Index. Despite recent backpedaling, the article is full of bragging. ...
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• Yes Men punk Coke in Copenhagen for greenwashing after Coke greenwashes in Copenhagen

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 625
  Two members of the “pranktivist” group Yes Men held a press conference in Copenhagen yesterday, posing as repentant Coca Cola officials and apologizing for the company’s environmentally exploitative practices. The pranksters led the small group of reportedly curious and amused press conference attendees in a ...
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• New Data on EU Carbon Trading Fraud Undermines Climate Fight

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  In what is sure to provide additional ammunition for climate denial suicide bombers*, Europol, the European Union’s top law enforcement agency, has announced that more than $7.4 billion in tax revenue has been lost from schemes involving the trade of carbon credits.The extent of the fraud is unclear, but when ...
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• Employees* Rage Against the Coke Machine in Copenhagen

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Grist, and is re-posted with permission.COPENHAGEN—Two Cola-Cola* employees urged people in Copenhagen to never drink the soft drink again, denouncing their company’s environmental and human rights record in a highly unusual press conference* in the ...
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• Greenwashing So Absurd, It’s Almost Funny

  
  WebEcoist — Authority: 577
  [ See more under News & Politics or in the History & Trivia category ] When companies like Exxon-Mobil and McDonalds think “green”, they’re thinking of cash, not the earth. And after all, what matters to unscrupulous marketers isn’t so much the reality of their brand or product, but how ...
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• How Satire and Greenwashing Provide us an Easy Ticket Back to our La-Z-Boys

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 525
  My editor, Chanel (who’s cranking out healthy and delicious posts for Fan Stuff now), forwarded me an article in Slate a couple days ago about a study on how our expansive and easy access to plug into the green movement might affect our perception of ourselves. As far as this study suggests, it affects it pretty ...
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• Crackdown in Copenhagen

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 642
  Over the past week, the Danish capital has welcomed delegates, corporate lobbyists, and representatives of mainstream, moderate NGOs with open arms; however, they’ve shown a somewhat uglier face towards activists advocating climate justice. Yesterday, a massive, peaceful protest of 100,000 people – the ...
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• What Is Jared Diamond Smoking?

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  As part of my board work, I have been asked to assess the environments in oil fields, and have had frank discussions with oil company employees at all levels. I’ve also worked with executives of mining, retail, logging and financial services companies. I’ve discovered that while some businesses are indeed as ...
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• Travelocity’s Green Hotel Directory Highlights Earth-Friendly Properties

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  Travelocity is getting serious about sustainable travel.  Besides offering free carbon offsets for the 2009 holiday season, the online travel agency also provides a convenient and simple Green Hotel Directory as part of its Travel for Good Program.Alison Presley, manager of  Travelocity’s Travel for Good Program, ...
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• The Al Gore Revolution for Green Design

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 437
  Former Vice President, Al Gore, is calling for a green revolution. L.A. Times reports that Gore gave a speech a few weeks ago at Greenbuild, the largest design conference in the world. The conference, held at Chase Field in Phoenix, called for a plan of action for change.Gore indicated that 40 percent of ...
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• The Al Gore Revolution for Green Design

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 437
  Former Vice President, Al Gore, is calling for a green revolution. L.A. Times reports that Gore gave a speech a few weeks ago at Greenbuild , the largest design conference in the world. The conference, held at Chase Field in Phoenix, called for a plan of action for change. Gore indicated that 40 percent of ...
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• Greenwashing’s Two-Edged Sword

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  “Know it, Embrace” is the emerging Web 2.0 marketing best practices being used by companies successfully growing green revenues as their alignment strategy with customers searching for trustworthy, authentic green companies and products.
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• More stops being pulled

  
  Ramblings from Oz — Authority: 118
  Anyone who knows something about advertising could tell you that the posters Greenpeace are using in Copenhagen are directly targeting the self-image of those whose images are depicted. Attempting to get Barry(and Angie and Nicolas) to look at himself as an old man now is suggesting to him that he can do the ...
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• McDonald’s turning more green… their logo, that is.

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  McDonalds is doing things a little backwards. Usually how it works is companies go green, and then they change their logo to reflect their sustainable practices.But McDonald’s Europe has decided to go ahead and make that logo switch first. An Associated Press article reports that European McDonald’s is exchanging ...
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• Must read

  
  Ramblings from Oz — Authority: 118
  Pulling out the sucker punches and low blows while they are currently taking a fair fight on the chin, it should come as no surprise that the usual suspects are doing whatever it takes to sway the masses and pull the wool over the eyes of the easily fooled. The AGW death cult has no ethics, only an agenda of ...
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• Repeat the lie enough..

  
  Ramblings from Oz — Authority: 118
  ...and eventually it becomes truth. And they are saying it with a straight face, and in light of recent... revelations about data being actively altered or deleted entirely by prominent "scientists," in that field. Yet, we are still moving forward with this output restriction horseshit. Is my contempt showing?
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• Mass “Die-In” Outside Plenary at Climate Talks

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 642
  More than 30 youth from Australia, Mexico, India, Sweden, the US, Germany, and around the world  staged a “die-in” today outside the main plenary at COP15 with the message – “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “Real Deal Saves Lives”. A real deal was in jeopardy today as speculation emerged that the ...
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