“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...
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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 which are damaging to the environment.
An Official Selection for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and Winner of Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival, "Flow" is a thought-provoking film about how water is being bought up and dried up. Just one more reason to avoid bottled water when you can and write your government officials asking them to promote policies and legislation that would 1) reduce water pollution and 2) conserve fresh water. "Flow" Movie Website -- film available on DVD on 12/9/08 Article... Read Full Story
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Today the European Union has the most environmentally-friendly arsenal of rules in the world and has done more to tackle pressing ecological problems, such as climate change, than any other major power. But it has not always been like this. Caring for the environment did not feature in the Treaty of Rome, the document that gave birth to... Read Full Story
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Home / BANKING AND FINANCIAL NEWS , BREAKING NEWS , CONSUMMER GOODS , ENVIRONMENT , PRESS RELEASE , URBAN AUDIENCE / America Experiencing Steepest Drop in Driving Reveals Brookings Research
December 17, 2008
Brookings Ranks 50 States, 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas for “Driving Footprint� Nevada, Idaho, Colorado Lead the Way in Ending Car-Dependence
Metro Driving Down in Austin, Indianapolis, Atlanta; Up in New Orleans
WASHINGTON... Read Full Story
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Home / Article-byline , CONSUMMER GOODS , ENVIRONMENT , MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PR , Publishing / Are e-books green? What to know before you convert
March 11, 2009
TORONTO, (RushPRNews) 03/11/09 -E-books are simple, in principle. They replace the familiar, texturally pleasing dead-tree kind of book with a device that most closely resembles a laptop with no keyboard. For years, the glossy, low-resolution display on most e-books has been one of... Read Full Story
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Councilmember At-Large Kwame Brown today joined the Green Builders Council of DC , a coalition of more than 30 local builders and developers, to unveil the nation's first green collar job training curriculum for the Washington, DC area construction industry. The curriculum will train current construction workers, plus Career and Technical Education students entering the District's construction trades programs, in environmentally-sensitive construction methods and... Read Full Story
Bangladesh and India: Tipaimukh Dam And Transparency
Our previous report on the damaging aspects of the Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project and protests against it generated much reader response. This post has updates on the situation.
Asadul Haque at Haque's Talking describes how this has been a hot debate in Bangladesh recently:
The Tipaimukh dam issue currently continues to dominate
the domain of political, media, intellectual and civil society’s
discourse in Bangladesh with... Read Full Story
Barbie Thumbelina is a new movie and line of toys from Barbie. No, it doesn't tell the story of Thumbelina. Nope, no princesses either. Instead, the fairies (Twillerbees) are off on an eco-friendly journey to save the planet. Sounds like something I'd love, right? Nope, wrong again! The fairies come across as not only bratty but completely stupid. They also resort to eco-terrorism of sorts by destroying the demolishing equipment that is going to ruin their flower field. While it... Read Full Story
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Home / Article-byline , ENVIRONMENT , PRESS RELEASE , U.S. GOVT. NEWS / Bureau of Land Management Makes a Turkey of a Deal in Utah
November 28, 2008
Agreement Between BLM and the National Parks Service Fails to Protect Thousands of Acres of Public Land, including eastern Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument
WASHINGTON(RushPRnews)11/28/08- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah agreed to lease 59 parcels of land to oil and gas drilling this week... Read Full Story
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Home / ENVIRONMENT / Bush Administration Decides to Suppress Public Comment on Wildlife Regulations
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August 14, 2008
by Andrew Wetzler
NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 14, 2008 –They never cease to amaze. The Bush Administration apparently decided sometime last fall that it will no longer accept any public comments on proposed Endangered Species Act regulations by e-mail or fax.
I stumbled on this change when looking at the text of... Read Full Story
