Tag: Greenwashing - Page 9
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Greenwash Watch: Loblaws: Something Can Must Be Done
Canada's biggest grocery chain has been struggling of late, and has been trying to paint itself green with its shopping bags and its tag line "something must be done". When Galen Weston Jr. took over he promised local food; we visited in July and were
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Australian Forestry Standard Goes Global
Australia's $18 billion forestry industry now boasts its own internationally recognized Australian Forestry Standard (AFS), a certification scheme that assures consumers that they are buying wood products from sustainably managed forests and
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Greenwash Watch: Greenwashing Your Countertop: LG Eden
First off, anyone who markets green products with lame hippie imagery should be smacked round the head, and is going to get looked at really closely. So what is it? It is a thermosetting acrylic countertop material that is "one of the most
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Greenwash Watch: Norway Says Cars are not "Green" or "Clean"
You can't market a Prius as "green" in Norway; forget about calling your Tesla "clean"- it is all greenwashing to the Norwegian consumer ombudsman. "No car can be "green," "clean" or "environmentally friendly.Cars cannot do anything good for the
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Greenwash Watch: Nothing Says Green Like an Electric Leafblower
Or as BoingBoing titled it, "Irony, Thy Name is Amazon."
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TH Forums Highlights: Global Warming Fights, Disposable Fashion, Tiny House and More
1) Forums user mpopovi helps the Forums' polling functionality flex its muscles with the question "Could Global Warming Lead To War For Scarce Resources?" While the results are decidedly
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America Runs on Fair-Trade Dunkin'
Dunkin' Donuts has never broadcast the fact that all its espresso, cappuccinos, and lattes are 100 percent-certified fair trade. Till now, that is, if you can call placing a blink-and-you'll-miss-it fair-trade sticker on its store doors tooting its own
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Greenwash Watch: Michelin: Worst. Greenwashing Site. Ever
The words "eco tire" attracted us- what could it be? It's Michelin marketing "energysaver construction(TM) "a combination of unique rubber compounds and tire architecture [that] helps reduce energy consumption (in the form of heat). It invited us to
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Greenwash Watch: Victoria's Secret
It's hot in Charleston, South Carolina; Chad Norman of Go Green Charleston went to the mall and found that the Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works both had their doors wide open. He asked the managers if they knew about it; they responded "Of
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Target Completely Misses the Mark
While it's always encouraging to see companies turn over a new leaf and adopt a more pro-active, sustainable approach to conducting business, we all know that for every one company that genuinely follows through with its lofty commitments, ten more
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Greenwash Watch: Shell Told To Pull Greenwashing Ad
We wondered about the magazine ad we saw with happy flowers coming out of smokestacks and the message "Don't throw anything away, there is no away" in 70's happy hippy font over the top. We were reminded of Collin's little vase from the other day, a
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Greenwash Watch: Loblaws: Go Green and Mean It
Canada's biggest grocery chain, Loblaws, has been struggling for a few years in anticipation of the Wal-Mart grocery invasion; it built new warehouses that didn't work, neglected its own fabulously successful President's Choice franchise and filled the
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Starbucks to Promote "Arctic Tale"
Starbucks is planning to fete a summer publicity blitz for Arctic Tale, an upcoming movie about a walrus and a polar bear, narrated by Queen Latifah, with posters and cup sleeves that the java juggernaut hopes will educate customers about global warming
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Greenwash Watch: More Greenwashing from the LCBO
When we last posted about the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, a commenter asked "what? you buy your liquor from the government? Is this 1935?" But in fact every bottle of liquor and most wine in this very large province is sold by the government of
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For the Olympics, Will Beijing Paint the Town Green?
According to locals in Fumin county, in China's southwest Yunnan province, workers began arriving last August with heavy equipment to green a small mountainside. But instead of trees and soil they came armed with large paint guns and orders from
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Greenwash Watch: GE Ecomagining Weaker Smog Controls for Locomotives
We recently covered GE's new ads featuring Kevin Kline touting, among other things, GE's new Evolution diesel locomotive. We even suggested that they "demonstrate real progress." Alas, perhaps they only demonstrate real hype. We learn from the Wall
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Greenwash Watch: Slick Movies from GE Ecomagination
GE's Josh Karpf points us to a revamp of their website with a series of short films about GE ecomagination narrated by Kevin Kline, who we have loved since Silverado. Beautifully photographed with bucolic backgrounds, they have grapes growing in Napa
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TH Blog Love — Our Favourite Greens Of The Week
Clay and Wattles: Carnival of The Green #61 by Kevin Kennedy This week’s Carnival comes from Kevin in Yellowknife, Canada. He’s talking about recyling old tarps, aluminium foil, reusing old windows in the garden, and on a very serious note the
