greenwash

Whilst the power company E.ON make attempts to convince us they're "going green" (by actually asking YOU to go green) what one hand "gives" the other taketh away. Their latest campaign asks football fans to reduce their carbon footprint whilst they plot to belch out 200 times that amount of carbon every year with a new coal-fired power station!

The world is finite. We won't change this with vegan shoes and hybrid cars, no matter how green. We need to make second-hand shoes and public transportation our fashion statement. Otherwise, we're just greening the Titanic.

Blimey. First Al Gore, then Nasa's top scientist and now Prince Charles. Yep, Charlie has joined the clamour against new coal and, while he didn't go as far as Gore and call for "rings of young people blocking bulldozers," he did stand up in front of the European parliament and ask some searching questions.

Who'd have thought it? Two Japanese paper firms lied about the amount of recycled paper in their products!

On 3rd January 2008, at about lunch time, the LRT Greenwash Guerrillas discovered a major source of greenwash at Shell HQ in Waterloo, London. The Guerrillas entered the lobby for an inspection but were so repelled by the Greenwash that they had to leave (the security assisting their escape).

Despite Apple's notorious GREENWASHING campaign, the fact remains that the IPOD is one of the worst scourges to the environment in recent memory--Story of Stuff's expose covers that well and good. What about Gore's involvement? (No, not that oil stock ownership scandal...)

General Electric's biggest spending on "environmental initiatives" now to deflect criticism, corporate style, is ADVERTISING.

Coverage of this week's greenwash news items and opinions. Same new, same old: "green fuels", greenwashing watchdogs, and a newish blog.

Asking football fans to reduce their carbon footyprint? Is this really going to save the planet or is it just a PR stunt?

We're all aware that the claims to greenness made by many companies are at best, exaggerated, but how clued up are we really about being tricked into buying eco-friendly products that are anything but?

Two self-dubbed “greenwash guerrillas” invaded a Carbon Market conference in New York’s Javits Center on Tuesday. The activists from a group called Rising Tide North America passed security posing as convention delegates. Then they rushed the stage just before U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, was set to speak.