Comments on: How To Spot Greenwash http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/ Exposing Ethical Hypocrites Everywhere! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:15:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: keith http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-2777 keith Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:03:01 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-2777 Hi Larkin Here's the one about Astroturfs. <a href="http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/05/26/the-tools-of-greenwashing-2-astroturfs/" rel="nofollow">http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/05/26/the-tools-of-greenwashing-2-astroturfs/</a> I strongly recommend you follow the "How To..." series, linked to on the left of the screen. K. Hi Larkin

Here’s the one about Astroturfs.

http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/05/26/the-tools-of-greenwashing-2-astroturfs/

I strongly recommend you follow the “How To…” series, linked to on the left of the screen.

K.

]]> By: Larkin http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 Larkin Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:31:26 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-2776 To make greenwashing as socially unacceptable as consuming hard drugs in front of your grandmother - classic. Where did you think i learned it from!.....Kidding Greenwashing You have given a name to something that I have been noticing and those around me don't get or more commonly, don't care. Added to that are stories presented in the news that are thinly veiled commercials. On the political side, these agendas are advanced through the use of Astroturfing. Fake public introduced groups designed to support. Astroturf is also green. To make greenwashing as socially unacceptable as consuming hard drugs in front of your grandmother – classic.

Where did you think i learned it from!…..Kidding

Greenwashing
You have given a name to something that I have been noticing and those around me don’t get or more commonly, don’t care. Added to that are stories presented in the news that are thinly veiled commercials.
On the political side, these agendas are advanced through the use of Astroturfing. Fake public introduced groups designed to support. Astroturf is also green.

]]> By: Louise http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1379 Louise Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:44:12 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1379 the 'Greenhouse Effect' is not conjecture; it is a fact. It is this mechanism which keeps our planet temperate and life as we know it viable. The issue of anthropologically induced 'Climate Change' is the matter under debate [Ed. Amongst whom, exactly? Anyhow, if you don't believe we are burning the Earth up then I suggest you go somewhere else, Louise - my web sites make a very simple assumption: that civilized humans are destroying the planet. Without certain axioms we make no progress - you are just playing the stalling game], as temperatures naturally fluctuate over the course of time and have done since well before the advent of humans. It is simple matters like this which fog true debate and cause the reputability of the author to be called into question. This obviously extends to both pro and anti Green campaigners. [Which is why greenwashing exists - to fog the debate and keep the profit machine turning over...] the ‘Greenhouse Effect’ is not conjecture; it is a fact. It is this mechanism which keeps our planet temperate and life as we know it viable. The issue of anthropologically induced ‘Climate Change’ is the matter under debate [Ed. Amongst whom, exactly? Anyhow, if you don't believe we are burning the Earth up then I suggest you go somewhere else, Louise - my web sites make a very simple assumption: that civilized humans are destroying the planet. Without certain axioms we make no progress - you are just playing the stalling game], as temperatures naturally fluctuate over the course of time and have done since well before the advent of humans.

It is simple matters like this which fog true debate and cause the reputability of the author to be called into question. This obviously extends to both pro and anti Green campaigners. [Which is why greenwashing exists - to fog the debate and keep the profit machine turning over...]

]]> By: Rian O'Neill http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 Rian O'Neill Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:15:30 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1354 Here's a greenwash for the record books. A label was attached to the Christmas tree I bought last week that read "This spring the farmer who grew this tree will plant a new one in its place." Duh. It's called farming. See the label and read a bit more on the link above. Cheers! [Ed. I really must look around for some seasonal greenwash - shouldn't be that difficult considering the c*** people email me :-) ] Here’s a greenwash for the record books. A label was attached to the Christmas tree I bought last week that read “This spring the farmer who grew this tree will plant a new one in its place.” Duh. It’s called farming. See the label and read a bit more on the link above. Cheers!

[Ed. I really must look around for some seasonal greenwash - shouldn't be that difficult considering the c*** people email me :-) ]

]]> By: US meets UK » Blog Archive » Eco friendly DJs http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 US meets UK » Blog Archive » Eco friendly DJs Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:18:29 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1256 [...] feel like everyday I hear about companies that are greenwashing their marketing.  Since there is no standard for “eco friendly” or whatever it means [...] [...] feel like everyday I hear about companies that are greenwashing their marketing.  Since there is no standard for “eco friendly” or whatever it means [...]

]]> By: John Dallas http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 John Dallas Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:05:54 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1187 U. S. car companies want us to believe that 30 to 35mpg cars are a good thing, and they seem to be increasing the size of their hybrid offerings each year. I'd call that greenwashing. We want/need a car big enough to feel safe in, but no bigger than that. I rarely see more than two passengers in any vehicle during my daily work commute, and most trucks are not hauling anything. A sports-car sized plug in electric car, without the sports-car price tag, will be a huge financial success for the first car company to offer them. U. S. car companies want us to believe that 30 to 35mpg cars are a good thing, and they seem to be increasing the size of their hybrid offerings each year. I’d call that greenwashing. We want/need a car big enough to feel safe in, but no bigger than that. I rarely see more than two passengers in any vehicle during my daily work commute, and most trucks are not hauling anything. A sports-car sized plug in electric car, without the sports-car price tag, will be a huge financial success for the first car company to offer them.

]]> By: keith http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 keith Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:29:09 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1067 Chauhan Please can you send me examples of Greenwash that you have seen - I would like to explore this area a lot more. Cheers Keith Chauhan

Please can you send me examples of Greenwash that you have seen – I would like to explore this area a lot more.

Cheers

Keith

]]> By: chauhan http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 chauhan Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:47:02 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1066 Come accross your organisation . Actually greenwash is going on massively in Tourism industry. Many companies use ecofriendly policies as a marketing tool and take no measures to implement them at all levels to which they out-source there services. I have seen many examples. Come accross your organisation . Actually greenwash is going on massively in Tourism industry.
Many companies use ecofriendly policies as a marketing tool and take no measures to implement them at all levels to which they out-source there services.

I have seen many examples.

]]> By: Beechwood EMEA · How Green Is Your Brand? http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Beechwood EMEA · How Green Is Your Brand? Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:25:12 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1057 [...] to say that greenwashing (in which consumers are misled regarding the environmental practices of a company or the [...] [...] to say that greenwashing (in which consumers are misled regarding the environmental practices of a company or the [...]

]]> By: keith http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 keith Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:43:04 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/04/10/how-to-spot-greenwash/#comment-1046 Vance No computer is sustainable - but to get the message across to the wider world requires computers, and that's the sad irony. If I didn't need to get the message across to so many people then there wouldn't be so much of a problem; but there is and so I do. That said, my electricity use is tiny compared to most households and is also fully renewable. And I haven't changed my machine for 5 years either. Keith Vance

No computer is sustainable – but to get the message across to the wider world requires computers, and that’s the sad irony. If I didn’t need to get the message across to so many people then there wouldn’t be so much of a problem; but there is and so I do. That said, my electricity use is tiny compared to most households and is also fully renewable. And I haven’t changed my machine for 5 years either.

Keith

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