public relations

This week, Green Meeting Guide publishers and The Innovolve Group identified nearly 1,000 qualified suppliers in 10 distinct categories located in 7 major markets in Canada (I suspect it won’t be long until a similar directory emerges in the U.S.), making the Green Event Guide the most comprehensive reference document on “green” practioners in the hospitality sector.

Green businesses can benefit by writing Press Release suitable for soical media

Public relations specialist Jim Hoggan talks about astroturf, greenwashing and echo chambers as methods used by corporations in spreading misinformation about global warming and other subjects.

How to avoid being included in stories like Businessweek's recent cover story, "Little Green Lies", as a business in 2008.

In Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002), Marion Nestle, a leading nutritionist and then-chair of the NYU department of nutrition, food science, and public health, shows that calling ketchup a vegetable is just the tip of the regulatory iceberg. The book is a thorough and often shocking review of the historically cozy relationship between the food industry and the US government, and how that relationship has affected the food regulations (and deregulation) that determine the quality and the marketing of the food we eat.

Check out this interview with Steve Bryant who helped bring soy from geek to chic!