Tag: Advertising - Page 5
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Nissan LEAF Ad Puts Global Warming Front and Center (Video)
It's rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that's exactly what has happened with Nissan's new TV ad for it's all-electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the
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Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food's Carbon Footprint (Slideshow)
A picture is worth a thousand words. How can we grab people's attention, and get them to eat more local food? Yes, local food -- because it is healthier, slashes food's carbon footprint, and makes you savour the seasons again.
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BP Offers $70 Million in Cash to Gas Station Owners
BP has announced plans to send cash to suffering gas stations in the US -- which is pretty revealing. It's evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct,
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Clorox Says it Owns the Daisy, Sends Cease and Desist Letter
digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/who-owns-the-daisy.php';So who owns the daisy? Apparently the Clorox Company has since September 2009, when they registered the mark "consisting of a flower with yellow petals with orange shades
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Paper Company Starts Campaign To Promote Printing of Email
TreeHuggers have been bashing printers for years, putting those "Think before you print" messages on the bottom of our emails. John Williams of Domtar, a big paper company, says they are "just bull" and is starting a marketing campaign- "Put it On
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Top 10 Earth Day Swag Items That Are Eco-Friendly (Maybe)
Earth Day has taken on a (corporate) life of its own. This April 22, the 40th anniversary, is likely to feature a lot of "stuff" generated just for the occasion. And all that swag kind of defeats the purpose of the
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Is This Ad Too Scary for Television? (Video)
Britain's independent watchdog agency, the Advertising Standards Association, has decided it is. The ad, which features a a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter about the the impacts of climate change, caused a stir when it was first
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PSA Shows Life in a Sea of Plastic
Recent research is shedding light on the disturbing state of our planet's oceans and the incredible amount of waste that has collected at sea, but sometimes a shocking video is more helpful in advancing the urgency of the problem. In this animated PSA
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PETA Porn: Do PETA's Posters Hide the Meat of the Issue? (Slideshow)
From the launch of its "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign in 1991, People for the Ethical Treatment
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Do PETA's Posters Hide the Meat of the Issue?
PETA, Now Featuring Sasha Grey PETA's campaigns have a noble purpose--decreasing animal cruelty, supporting animal rights--but do their naked-lady ads have one major flaw? Some critics argue that PETA's outrageous media campaigns are more respectful of
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Does Audi's 'Green Police' Superbowl Ad Reveal a Shifting Paradigm? (Video)
Much has been made of this year's generally crappy Super Bowl ads. But in the green community, one ad has been showing up repeatedly on just about every enviro blog out there: the Audi "Green Police" ad. We even covered
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A Picture is Worth: Advertising By Amtrak In TSA Security Line
Caught by Julia Allison in the TSA screening line at O'Hare: "I couldn't stop laughing at the ads on the bottom of the bins - Amtrak had a stroke of genius." also at @juliaallison
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6 Meat and Fur-free Celebrities with a Die-hard Passion for PETA
Photo via Do Something PETA has never been shy about making a fuss while getting its message out, whether that means objecting to Obama's fly-swatting maneuvers or posting billboards that target obesity--and while not everyone appreciates the brashness
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Touring New York's Most Sustainable Bakery
Nicola Twilley, author of the Edible Geography blog, writes in Good that:
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Aged Obama Poster Says "I´m Sorry" For Not Doing More in Copenhagen
If you've ever wondered what President Obama will look like in 2020, then here you go. If you've ever wondered what the world's carbon emissions will look like
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New TV Ad Shows Polar Bears Falling to Gruesome Deaths (Video)
An ad by Plane Stupid, an anti-airplane pollution advocacy group, is stirring some serious controversy in the UK and around the blogosphere. In a graphic TV ad designed to reveal the massive emissions that even short flights
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From the Forums: "Clean Coal" Is at It Again!
Hyrdotopia writes: Clean Coal has realized their "Clean Coal" campaign wasn't fooling anyone so now they are going for the same self-promoted PR by presenting Bush voter-types speaking about a new coal power plant in
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Is there a Hotel Greenwashing Police?
To psychologically prepare for cold weather, I've been planning a trip to somewhere warm this winter. Like me, more and more people who love to travel are also concerned about the eco-friendliness of the hotels they're
