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“greenwash” can be defined as trying to convince people that you are doing something good for the environment by being involved in small, environmentally-friendly initiatives, especially as a way of hiding your involvement in activities... [more]
“greenwash” can be defined as trying to convince people that you are doing something good for the environment by being involved in small, environmentally-friendly initiatives, especially as a way of hiding your involvement in activities which are damaging to the environment.
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September 26, 2008
Climate activist sets sights on ‘global warming’ movie set in year 2112
by Dan Bloom
HOLLYWOOD (RUSHPRNEWS) o9/26/2008– While most people go about their daily business, mindful of the news about climate change and global warming, Mike Roddy, 61, wants to do something about it.
He’s not a climate activist, he’s not a science expert, and he doesn’t have a Ph.D. in...
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Intelligent debate is crucial to the development of biofuels. It is right and proper that people with ideas put them forward and that those idea are rigorously challenged, by people who think it is wrong or bad.
Sadly, however, some students at Brown University and their half witted friends at Greenwash Guerillas, don’t think this is the right way to go about things. It would seem that silencing critics is easier as New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was pied by the Greenwash...
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As I walked out my door today, I breathed in the lovely May air. My lilac bush is flourishing and my newly planted alium are about to flower, my windchimes tinkled softly and birds chirped around my birdbath; in short - it's a wonderful day. And my wonderful day is unspoilable. Why? Because of the below. The journalist I like to hate, the worst hire the 'New York Times' ever made (among numerous poor decisions), warmonger and narcissist-supreme - Thomas Friedman - was pied. Yes, I said...
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Am I the only one not perversely pleased by the appreciating fuel costs? Fuel has always treated with a complacent immortality, sort of petroleum version of The Everlasting Gobstopper. Now the price is rising, we are forced to use fuel prudently, more intelligently (though only intelligent in as much as it is economic - seeing as most of our aims nowadays are relative to monetary wealth). This pleases me because the harder it is for people to manage fuel costs, the closer we come to an...
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Recently I visited a chain supermarket that had implemented a policy against double bagging in the name of being "Green". The cashiers were dissatisfied as they hounded customers about double bagging. The customers were dissatisfied as they struggled to tote around heavy purchases in thin plastic bags. I loaded up each item to a bag and then repackaged the items outside into double bags. I noticed then that in terms of bags expended, instead of double bagging, I had actually tripled bagged...
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An "extinction crisis" is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.
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Re: "Unveil platform, Harper told: Conservative leader challenged to explain how he will deal with economy, climate change during second leaders debate," The Journal, Oct.
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Tasmania's fishing industry says a CSIRO report predicting dire climate change consequences for the aquaculture industry is no cause for panic.
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Oct 6, 2008 9:52 pm US/Pacific Environment & The Green Beat BARCELONA, Spain Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.
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Sounding the battle cry against climate change from Kashmir to Coimbatore, documentary makers are taking an environment film festival to eight cities, hoping to enlist people in their cause.
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Willy Bio said: "Here's another way to crush the ROI naysayer idiots. Ask them, if oil/gas supplies were interrupted, how much would it be worth to them to ..." [ read ] Willy Bio said: "Oy vey.
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According to Gavin's latest decree, the Civic Center will soon be known as the city's "Sustainable Resource District" as part of a three year initiative designed to greenwash the homeless green the area ...
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Debutante novelist Asmita Goyanka drew a parallel of global warming threatening to destroy the earth with the villain in her novel.
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A Tory government would provide central funding to restore full weekly rubbish collections across England, shadow environment secretary Eric Pickles said.
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Pope Benedict has urged tourists to respect the environment and local cultures, touching again on a theme that has earned him a reputation as the "Green Pope." Benedict says tourism depends greatly on pristine ...
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