Tag: Greenwashing
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New Program Lets You Exchange Digital Waste to Heat Homeless Shelters
"District Heating" is an initiative that lets users convert their digital trash into heat for homeless shelters in Sweden.
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What's Wrong With This Picture? It's Called "Sustainable" and "Holistic Green Building."
The brick industry better get their stories straight and think before they hit send.
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Keurig And Other Coffee Pods Piling Up In Landfills Across America
If there ever was a demonstration of how convenience won over economic sensibility and environmental common sense, this is it.
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Is PepsiCo The Master of Corporate Spin?
PepsiCo utilizes an array of public relations maneuvers to convince Americans to keep buying its products, despite copious health advice to the contrary.
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In Abrupt Turnaround, National Wildlife Federation Ends Partnership With ScottsMiracle-Gro
The partnership between the NWF and Scotts was short-lived. Here are the reasons behind the split.
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ScottsMiracle-Gro's Partnership With NWF Was Timed with Tainted Bird Seed News
More questions than answers surround the partnership of Scotts and the National Wildlife Federation. Plus, the company is in trouble again.
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ScottsMiracle-Gro and National Wildlife Federation Partner to Get Kids Outside
A new partnership between NWF and ScottsMiracle-Gro is leaving some wondering if it's not all just greenwashing on Scotts' part.
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Why Do I Hate Starbucks' Shipping Container Drive-through in Seattle So Much?
It's not the building, and it's not the fact that it is a drivethrough. It is that damn sanctimonious sign on the side of it.
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CES 2012: Yep, There Are Still Gadgets Made of Bamboo Sneaking In to CES
We thought the trend was over, but turns out bamboo-covered gadgets is not quite out of style.
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My Favourite Stories of 2011: January
From Martha Stewart to American Canned Beer, A month of rants
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iPhone App Decodes Green Labels So You Know What's Really Eco-Friendly
The new Eco-Label iPhone app from Consumer Reports does the research for you, and tells you if a label is real or just greenwash.
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Underground House With Green Roof Approved in Protected Area Next to Archaeological Site
I love good design, but should having "exceptional quality and innovative nature of the design" give you a pass in sensitive areas?
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To Separate Green from Greenwash, Use Material Safety Data Sheets
These legally required forms are just about the best tool around for figuring out if a product is safe; Christine the Chemist explains how to read them.
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WWF Encouraging Destructive Shrimp Farms?
It's true that shrimp farming has become so devastating to the environment that almost any standards created for the industry will be an improvement. But that doesn't mean they will be sustainable or that
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WWF Responds to Global Witness' "Pandering to the Loggers" Report
Global Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal logging
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Is WWF Selling Out Endangered Forests to Corporations?
The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade. But it's doing almost the
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Green Marketing Is Over. Let's Move On.
Joel Makower of GreenBiz has an interesting opinion piece on green marketing. He states, "There's plenty of hard work to do on the journey from here to sustainability. Dilly-dallying with green-marketing come-ons is a distraction." His argument is
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Ask Pablo: Will a "Water-Saving" Hot Water Recirculation Pump Really Save Me Money?
Image credit: Shaylor, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: I am considering getting a hot water recirculation pump. They claim to save a lot of water and I am wondering if this makes up for their energy use. Should I get a hot water
