The 10:10 campaign is targeting getting nations, organizations, businesses, individuals, etc to commit to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions 10 percent per year as a path to achieve reductions, globally, in line with what looks necessary to have any serious chance of avoiding catastrophic climate chaos. As part of this, sparked in efforts with groups […]
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“I was very happy to get blown up to save the world.”
September 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Nissan’s aggressive Leaf campaign sets an example
September 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Last evening, my better 95+% was flipping through the channels and received the rare: stop, go back to that. What was that? A Nissan “innovation” advertisement in which the Nissan Leaf played a prominent roll, “if you never needed to buy another gallon of gas …” Watching this well-done advertisement made me think of Who […]
Tags: advertising · automobiles · clean emissions · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · political symbols
Does BP stand for Begging for Pennies?
August 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Does BP stand for Begging for Pennies?
Few people earn a living (or even make money) running a blog site — especially not one that focuses on issues of substance. People do it for passion, love, ego, boredom, concern for public service … any number of reasons. And, in almost all cases, doing this costs money from indirect (opportunity costs) to direct […]
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The Darker Side of Lexus’ “Darker Side of Green”?
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Under the title The Darker Side of Green, Lexus (e.g., Toyota) has chosen to host a series of “debates” on climate change as part of its roll-out of hybrid Lexus CT200h. These events are hosted by a celebrity, with an environmentalist journalist and prominent skeptic ‘debating’ climate-change issues. To debate or not to debate: that […]
Tags: advertising · anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · greenwashing
JR Ewing evolves from fossil fool to solar star
July 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments
This guest post comes from down-under. I had been thinking of writing re JR Ewing’s conversion from stored solar power (e.g., fossil fuels) to renewable solar power. Unenergy‘s post does a great job. And, well, we must recognize that Sunenergy’s ads are great and merit going viral. I’d put my money on solar energy. What […]
Tags: advertising · Energy · renewable energy · solar
Piss on the planet
April 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
This ad comes via Canada. GreenCalgary is running an idle-free campaign with, we could say, a bit of a different twist. The negative health and environmental impacts of idling have been known for over a decade. Yet, all over the city of Calgary we are leaving our cars running while not in use for an […]
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The Most Environmentally Unfriendly Super Bowl Ad
February 7th, 2010 · 47 Comments
The $millions put into Super Bowl advertising cannot, in general, be seen as anything approaching environmentally friendly considering what is core to most of the messages: consume and, well, consume more. There are, of course, some advertisements that are wrapped in “green” and which have at least a (debatable) case to made that they are […]
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“Me too! Me too! ME TOO!” Climate problem, climate solution
November 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on “Me too! Me too! ME TOO!” Climate problem, climate solution
1 minute to save the world is a short film competition about climate change that has aimed to create a platform for people all over the world, particularly young people, to get their messages out about climate change and to put those messages directly to the global leaders and decision makers in Copenhagen in December. […]
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Children lay out an A, B, C path re climate change
November 12th, 2009 · Comments Off on Children lay out an A, B, C path re climate change
This is a powerful video from World Wildlife Fund. Take the moment to watch … and, as you wish, share. (And, if you wish, rate it at Youtube.) This is a call for President Barack Obama to go to Copenhagen. The “ABC” call? A. Help developing countries and fragile ecosystems cope with climate impacts. B. […]
Tags: advertising · catastrophic climate change · climate change · politics · pollution · President Barack Obama
Calls on Toyota to leave the Chamber
October 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Pressure is mounting, from many sides, on the US Chamber of Commerce, which has been actively fighting moving forward with sensible climate legislation. The Chamber’s position is so severe that, in fact, multiple businesses (such as PG&E) have left the chamber, others have stepped down the board with public statements distancing themselves from the Chamber’s […]
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