According to Washington Post reporting, the coal industry is using an Astroturf organization, the Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, to wage a $35 million dollar effort to gain traction in the 2008 Presidential campaign for a more polluting future for America and the Globe. (Note, this is not how the Post described it, but less […]
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Coal: $35 million in Astroturfing
January 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: astroturfing · carbon dioxide · coal · Global Warming · greenwashing · politics
Greening the Electronics Show: How green is Green?
January 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Greening the Electronics Show: How green is Green?
The Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) is making hay with its decision to green the annual electronics show in Las Vegas. With 140,000 attendees, the show’s direct impact is at least 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions … without counting the CO2 from 140,000 travelers. Nor, the shipping of the show materials and other supplies for […]
Tags: business practice · Energy · greenwashing
Greenwashing with an Oily Sheen
September 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments
On the front page of today’s Washington Post business section, Recasting Big Oil’s Batter Image was subtitled “Ads by Chevron and Others Aim to Send Positive Messages”. Whether “Beyond Petroleum” or Exxon Mobil telling us how to be more fuel efficient drivers, greenwashing efforts from the fossil fuel industry are fast and furiously growing in […]
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