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The origins of Shell?s ?Greenwash? were back in 1997
2008-08-16 15:04:00 In this article exclusive to BNN former Shell executive Paddy Briggs explains the background to the oil company’s predilection for “Greenwash Greenwash is in the news again as the oil companies are pilloried for the disingenuous corporate advertising they propagate in a naïve effort to boost their reputations. Shell has been twice criticised by the Advertising ...
Vote Green - Greenwash of the week! Rhiwbina
2008-04-29 12:06:00 Stop garden grabbing - we didn't stop the destruction in Beulah Road - Gareth Neale, Tory Rhiwbina, supported the profiteering developer and spoke up for him at the council meeting.See Heol Briwnant Garden Grabbing environmental disasterHowever, the tide is turning as the community stand up to the council and developers.This garden development was stopped.The Pantmawr Inn development was stopped.The councils own application to drivr a huge road into Bute Park was stopped.Beware of Green Wash - real greens go out in the wind and rain and take ACTION!!! The greenwash of the week goes to Rhodri Morgan who wrote to the Pantmawr Inn campaign to say how pleased he was they won!!! Blatent electioneering!!! Perhaps he could legislate - take action to stop gardens and public amenities being treated as 'Brownfield sites'!Vote green in Cardiff in Rhiwbina and Canton.See the slide show on the left of a garden grabbing story in Rhiwbina where a lovely bungalow was demolished to be replaced ...
Friedman Video Blocked on YouTube - ?Greenwash Guerillas? Respond
2008-04-28 23:45:00 As we previously reported, New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was officially ‘pied’ last week’, while giving an Earth Day Lecture at Brown University. Friedman was...
By: Green Options
Discount Organics: Greenwash Agent or Nutritional Revolution?
2008-03-21 17:09:00 I just read an article about a new in-house organics label from a retail giant here in Canada, Shoppers Drug Mart. Despite the name “drug mart,” Shoppers carries an impressively large...
By: Green Options
Sustainable Standards, the Backbone for Greenwash Free Marketing
2008-02-16 20:02:00 Are you new to the whole concept of Sustainable Standards? Here's a quickie course in what they are and how SMaRT fits into the mix. You can also download the PDF at: Download smart_sustainable_standards_101-_2.15.08.pdf | View | Upload your own
Good Eco Entrepreneurs Don?t Greenwash
2008-02-07 22:27:00 Growing green companies should tread cautiously when considering using certifications, marketing hype and eco claims on their product package. A great article over at Marketing Sherpa explains how...
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Friends of the Earth warns about Saab greenwash ads
2008-01-12 22:13:00 Friends of the Earth Europe thinks that some of Saab's latest ads are nothing but greenwashing, and has publicly warned the automaker to withdraw them or face legal challenge. FoEE instigated a summons (PDF) that was served to Saab's office in Belgium and "calls on the company to remove all wording and imagery from its website and brochures which associate its cars with nature or the protection of the environment. It must also withdraw false claims that driving a Saab reduces CO2 emissions." Another problem, FoEE says, is that Saab is not being clear about the CO2 emissions and fuel consumption numbers of the BioPower engines, "which is a violation of Belgian and European law." If Saab doesn't meet the demands in eight days, FoEE "will file legal proceedings."Related: Detroit 2008: Saab 9-4X BioPower Concept ACEA and voluntary CO2 notes in European car ads It's Friday: Is Jeep's "Rock Me Gently" ad greenwashing? o|||||-||o Tell the FTC how to ...
Greenwash the United Utilities way
2007-12-02 22:13:00 It seems the institutions that are for this road are really now stepping up their efforts to marginalise the public from the facts.United Utilities (UU) have now brought themselves into the firing line. An article in this week's Advertiser - which is clearly a press release from UU - waxes lyrical about how the Longdendale Trail really is a wildlife haven. This is the same week that has seen an article in the Glossop Chronicle trying to demolish hope for any plans to reopen the Woodhead Tunnel to rail traffic. Is all of this press coverage a coincidence?The position of United Utilities in this one is very curious indeed. Their links with TMBC are not that well know, but the most direct and undeniable one is the fact that they enrol their employees into the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, a fund that is administered by TMBC, with Roy Oldham as Chairman. We've heard mutterings about shady financial deals done between TMBC & UU over The Kingswater/Waterside Park development year...
The Six Sins of Greenwash? and How to Repent
2007-11-23 17:03:00 I’ve come across so many claims of “greenwash” in the last year or so that I’ve become a bit inured to them: for some environmental activists, making this charge against any...
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Does Ruth Kelly wear a hair shirt?
2007-11-05 22:17:00 Perhaps more than any other in recent times, this government's attempts to resolve the inherent contradictions of capitalism through spin - if not concrete reality - are becoming less and less credible. Last week* saw the release of a discussion paper by the Department for Transport that is a perfect illustration of a new and what will prove to be intractable conundrum - how to expand road, rail and air networks whilst seeking to curb CO2 emissions.The paper signals a disdain for the rail alternatives and sees a future where 'carbon-free' automobiles will need to be accommodated on an ever widening and expanding motorway and road network. Furthermore, they are seeking to fund this expansion through private investment - a logical conclusion to the 'Design Build Finance Operate' initiatives of the 1990s. It's perhaps not so coincidental that two of the largest private road building firms have been courting each other in recent weeks and now look like they will merge shortly: Car...
Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007
2007-10-16 16:00:00 "Der ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ Award wird an Lobbyisten, Unternehmen oder Interessenverbände vergeben, die 2007 manipulative, irreführende oder andere problematische Lobbytaktiken verwendeten, um Entscheidungen der EU zu beeinflussen. In diesem Jahr wird ein zusätzlicher Preis in der Kategorie ‘Worst EU Greenwash’ vergeben, mit dem Firmen ausgezeichnet werden, deren Werbung, PR- und Lobbyrhetorik im Widerspruch zu den wahren Umweltauswirkungen ihres Kerngeschäfts steht."Ihr habe die Möglichkeit an der Wahl teilzunehmen und für bestimmte Lobbygruppen zu stimmen.Die Kandidaten für den Worst EU Lobbying Award:BMW, Porsche & DaimlerCabinet StewartEtienne DavignonEuropean Public Affairs Concultancies Association (EPACA)Repsol Die Kandidaten für den Worst EU Greenwash Award:AirbusDas Ausfüllen von Flugzeugsilhouetten mit idyllischen Landschaften als Werbung. Problematischer ist, dass Airbus im Anzeigen...
Greenwash
2007-08-23 20:51:00 The Highways Agency's latest publication about the bypass is interesting for a number of reasons.Several people have proposed alternative road schemes for the bypass, and these have been collected in a booklet which is available as a PDF from the Public Inquiry website.They range from the interesting and worthy of attention (alternative 1, page 4), to the frankly bonkers (920m tunnel under a hillside! - alternative 2, page 6), to the comparable with or worse than the existing scheme (alternative 4, page 10).The most interesting aims to circumvent congestion by banning HGVs and creating a 'gyratory flow' system - stopping up some local roads, constructing very little new roadspace and removing traffic lights which create delays.But the HA is keen to point out next to each one that they do not support each proposal. No matter, it's cost them time & money, and the 1990s remind us that a plethora of such tactics kill road schemes.And there's also some psychology at work here. The f... |
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