Comments on: How To Investigate Greenwash http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/ Exposing Ethical Hypocrites Everywhere! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:18:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Layne http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-2760 Layne Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:32:21 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/#comment-2760 I know that the company I work for is blatantly greenwashing, outright lying on our website: "We plant a tree for every order you place!" and that as we employees diligently fill the respective recycling bins with paper, cans, and glass, the management just dumps the contents of all the recycling bins into the dumpster outside. These and many other offenses I have viewed personally, and I am 1000% sure that this company is misleading the public with their greenwashing scam. My question is, what can I do about it??? Please help me! [I'll contact you. K.] I know that the company I work for is blatantly greenwashing, outright lying on our website: “We plant a tree for every order you place!” and that as we employees diligently fill the respective recycling bins with paper, cans, and glass, the management just dumps the contents of all the recycling bins into the dumpster outside. These and many other offenses I have viewed personally, and I am 1000% sure that this company is misleading the public with their greenwashing scam.
My question is, what can I do about it??? Please help me!

[I'll contact you. K.]

]]> By: keith http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1487 keith Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:03:00 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/#comment-1487 A very good point, Sue. Certainly most press releases come from agencies rather than the businesses themselves, so there is a lot of value in joining the dots and working against the PR agencies as well as the originators of the greenwash. In fact it may be easier to sabotage the agencies... A very good point, Sue. Certainly most press releases come from agencies rather than the businesses themselves, so there is a lot of value in joining the dots and working against the PR agencies as well as the originators of the greenwash. In fact it may be easier to sabotage the agencies…

]]> By: Sue http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Sue Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:21:51 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/#comment-1486 Hi Have you looked at the ties between the corporate PR spin groups? There are often clues there. See Invasion of the Entryists http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/ By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 9th December 2003 One of strangest aspects of modern politics is the dominance of former left-wingers who have swung to the right. The “neo-cons” pretty well run the White House and the Pentagon, the Labour party and key departments of the British government. But there is a group which has travelled even further, from the most distant fringes of the left to the extremities of the pro-corporate libertarian right. While its politics have swung around 180 degrees, its tactics - entering organisations and taking them over - appear unchanged. Research published for the first time today suggests that the members of this group have colonised a crucial section of the British establishment. etc... Hi
Have you looked at the ties between the corporate PR spin groups?
There are often clues there.
See
Invasion of the Entryists

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2003/12/09/invasion-of-the-entryists/
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 9th December 2003

One of strangest aspects of modern politics is the dominance of former left-wingers who have swung to the right. The “neo-cons” pretty well run the White House and the Pentagon, the Labour party and key departments of the British government. But there is a group which has travelled even further, from the most distant fringes of the left to the extremities of the pro-corporate libertarian right. While its politics have swung around 180 degrees, its tactics – entering organisations and taking them over – appear unchanged. Research published for the first time today suggests that the members of this group have colonised a crucial section of the British establishment.
etc…

]]> By: The Sietch Blog » How To Investigate Greenwash http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-1332 The Sietch Blog » How To Investigate Greenwash Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:48:18 +0000 http://thesietch.org/mysietch/keith/2008/12/01/how-to-investigate-greenwash/#comment-1332 [...] So, come over to The Unsuitablog, and read the entire article. [...] [...] So, come over to The Unsuitablog, and read the entire article. [...]

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