greenwashing
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ACCE pulls down clean coal carolers from its site
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, But the levee was under a half mile of rubble from a mountaintop that had been decapitated … OK, I’m […]
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Shell greenwashes with a full-page WaPo ad
Shell’s Mad Men win the 2008 award for the most unintentionally ironic greenwashing ad. On Monday (and again today), Shell ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post on carbon […]
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How my intern stood up to Big Auto
Even as it begs for a big taxpayer bailout, GM is still spending billions on marketing, peddling its giant gas-guzzlers to Americans who want them less and less. It has […]
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LCV calls out Chevron hypocrisy
The League of Conservation Voters beat me to punch in trashing Chevron’s recent greenwashing ads, with "I Will Point Out Hypocrisy": In train stations, at bus stops, online, even on […]
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Corporate foot soldiers fired up to kick environmental butt
I’m at REFF-West — a clean tech conference in Seattle — today. These conferences are a dime a dozen these days, so I probably won’t bombard you with tons of […]
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Colbert parodies Big Oil greenwashing
Last night, The Colbert Report marked the expiration of the moratorium on offshore drilling with this brilliant parody of Big Oil greenwashing. “A lot of people talk about loving the […]
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Greenwashing our vegetable modifiers
A few weeks ago, I was having dinner at a renowned restaurant in San Francisco, when I noticed something a bit troubling on the menu. According to the description, the […]
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Debate part 1: McCain tells the truth and lies at the same time
Let me briefly hit the big picture on the debate. The two insta polls out, from CBS and CNN, show that McCain lost by a large margin, by 13 percent […]
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The 2008 U.S. Open goes green
The court is green, the ball is green, and now the tournament is green as well. United States Tennis Association officials announced Monday that they would implement “green initiatives” at […]
