The Washington Nationals have a beautiful new stadium. A tax-payer paid stadium. A stadium padded itself on the back for its green attributes. This beautifully green stadium is plastered with: advertisements for that every so environmentally friendly Exxon-Mobil. Yes, that Exxon-Mobil that has so happily (and generously) supported global warming denialists as a path to […]
Entries Tagged as 'greenwashing'
Oily Green: Time for Washing up Some Washington Greenwashing
June 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · greenwashing · Uncategorized
Greening the School House
June 13th, 2008 · 22 Comments
Last month, to far (FAR) less attention than it merited, the House of Representatives (facing an Administration veto threat) passed the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act with $20 billion for greening public schools across the nation. Taking aggressive action to green schools is about one of the smartest steps the nation can […]
Tags: analysis · architecture · architecture2030 · building green · business practice · cities · clean emissions · Congress · conservation · democrats · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming · green · greenwashing
Greenwashed McCain: All sides call it dirty
May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The McCain campaign’s greenwashing efforts are getting hit from all sides and could actually provide a unifying factor across the political spectrum: everyone finds it absurd. As per EarthFirst, Finally, Something the Righties and Lefties All Agree On: McCain Needs to Stop this Environment Crap.
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · analysis · eco-friendly · environmental · greenwashing · john mccain
Greenwashing McCain’s Campaign
May 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Greenwashing is the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company, an industry, a government, a politician or even a non-government organization to create a pro-environmental image, sell a product or a policy, or to try and rehabilitate their standing with the public and decision makers after being embroiled in controversy. John McCain’s campaign is […]
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Husband or Wife on framing environmental issues
April 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Husband or Wife on framing environmental issues
How should environmental organizations and prominent “environmental” politicians speak to supporters when it comes to environmental issues and when it comes to the Lieberman-Warner Climate (In)Security Act? This is a serious issue that can get some blood boiling. Privately, some have sent complaints that Plumbing Lieberman-Warner’s Shortfalls Doesn’t Meet Scientific Requirements wasn’t fair since it […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · Congress · emissions · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · greenwashing · lieberman-warner · politics · pollution
Dominion CEO Disconnected from Reality
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Dominion CEO Disconnected from Reality
“Those who seek to demonize coal or eliminate its use are, quite honestly, disconnected from reality.” Dominion Resources CEO Thomas F Farrell, II What is the reality that we are disconnected from? The 3.5 million tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxide, 10 million tons of sulfur dioxide, 48 tons of mercury, 56 tons of arsenic, 134,000 […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · coal · dominion virginia power · electricity · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · greenwashing · pollution
Truthiness over Truth: McCain Surrogate Speaks Up On Climate Change
April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Truthiness over Truth: McCain Surrogate Speaks Up On Climate Change
Anyone with an open mind realizes that the “Straight Talk Express” has little relationship with action for McFlip, McFlop, McSame McCain as the man (the politician) truly seems to excel at telling people to “Do as I say, not as I do.” Sadly, this is the case when it comes to Global Warming, where McCain’s Green […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · Global Warming · greenwashing · politics
Dominion … the truthiness continues … forever?
March 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Coal is a booming business, with price increases even exceeding those seen for oil. Fossil Fuels and the polluting of the atmosphere are, we can hope, burning their last embers of extravagant enthusiasm. While coal is a booming business, it is also a business under fire, with people like Governor Sibelius standing tall in the […]
Tags: climate change · coal · electricity · emissions · Energy · Global Warming · greenwashing
Greenwashing reckless legislation — unintentionally or otherwise
March 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Barbara Boxer has been a real leader on Global Warming issues in the US Senate. A leader who suffered for far too long under the ‘tutelage’ of Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon). Sadly, for whichever set of reasons, Senator Boxer has being working hard to corral votesin support of the fatally flawed Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act […]
Tags: barack obama · environmental · Global Warming · greenwashing · Hillary Clinton · john mccain · politics
On being called out by Environmental Defense
February 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Environmental Defense sent out an e-mail to Senate staffs and Senators specifically calling out this blogger for attention, calling for advertising coordination between Senators and Environmental Defense in support of the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (CSA, mistakenly called the Climate Security Act). My statement: I am saddened that Environmental Defense seems far more interested in […]
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