Sentences with word «greenwash»

That now - ubiquitous label has become perhaps the most recognizable standard bearer for the green food movement — it couldn't be one of the biggest cases of greenwashing in the US.

We did notice plastic water bottles in the villas, so we hope it's not just greenwashing as these bottles are easy to give up if the will is there.

Specifically, from greenwashing claims that its products are carbon - negative.

With strong environmental advocacy — not greenwashing for fossil fuels by anti-nuclear ideologues — we can fix America's electricity system.

She said Greenpeace would like to see the Green Guides become stricter, but FTC could achieve the same goal by cracking down on greenwashing using the standards that are already in place.

Concerns about greenwashing dominated almost every presentation, and several industries were called on the carpet for making insincere green claims that do more harm — both to the environment and to consumer trust — than good.

Her top piece of advice for avoiding greenwashing is choosing a brand that you know you can email and get a response straight from the founder.

The Paris Agreement does not call out against «fossil fuels» but allows room for greenwashing of mainstream fuel sources (remember we need to keep at least 80 percent of known fossil fuels in the ground if we want to be in line with what science tells us is safe to burn before runaway climate change becomes a reality).

«Distorting the Debate: A Case Study of Corporate Greenwashing,» Ozone Action, May 15, 1991.

Images credit: Fur Council of Canada Four years ago we congratulated the Fur Council of Canada for setting a new standard in greenwashing with their Fur is Green campaign.

Now however, we see that a company jumping on the corporate social responsibility bandwagon just for show or greenwashing doesn't fool its employees,» said Dr. Magda Donia, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management and lead author of the Applied Psychology: An International Review study.

As opposed to other companies greenwashing their marketing materials with overstated claims of sustainability — Disney's solar array is concrete evidence of the company's commitment to cleaner energy.

Though FTC can not force businesses to adopt greener practices, Section 5 of the FTC Act authorizes the agency to intervene when businesses are misrepresenting their practices to clients — in other words, turning greenwashing into fraud.

So many people are demanding green that there's a lot of greenwashing going on out there.»

CES 2009: Nokia Working to Walk the Green Talk CES 2009: Schwinn's Tailwind Bike Uses Exclusive Toshiba Battery Tech (Video) CES 2009: Christopher Knight Helps Kick off Green Plug's First Product CES 2009: The Greener Gadgets Wild Goose Chase CES 2009: Fuji Rolls Out Greenwashed EnviroMAX Batteries

CES 2009: Christopher Knight Helps Kick off Green Plug's First Product CES 2009: The Greener Gadgets Wild Goose Chase CES 2009: Fuji Rolls Out Greenwashed EnviroMAX Batteries

Recently, many bloggers have begun to speak out in mass against greenwashing.

While other big coffee companies trumpet their empty sustainability claims, Starbucks has been releasing these reports with a minimum of flag - waving and no attempt at greenwashing.

Specifically, from greenwashing claims that its products are

The Debate Continues Drinking Outside the Box: Juice Boxes for Wine Greenwash Watch: More Greenwashing from the LCBO: French Rabbit: Savor the Wine, Save the Planet

Walmart talks a lot of talk about its renewable energy initiatives, but a new ILSR report finds that all that hype is just slick greenwashing hiding the company's massive coal consumption.

There is an opportunity cost to so - called greenwashing, and some of this cost can be blamed on the advocates of climate alarmism and not - so - green energies wind and solar.

Like other greenwashing campaigns, it's about using the iconography of sexy technology and down - home Americana to maintain the status quo.

And there's simply no way for a consumer to recognize greenwashing on a label.

Now even I would note that the US Forest Service is hardly a disinterested, impartial source, and will save my debating partner the trouble by noting that well over half of the references cited by the US Forest Service researchers at the end of the report are from CORRIM, which he calls «timber industry PR types that are «pure timber industry greenwashing with no scientific basis whatsoever.»

As investors and consumers demand better information on whether they are being served or whether the sales pitches they see are mere greenwashing, more organizations will form to certify the business practices of these companies.

: Reading Eagle: Eden Foods More on Corporate Ownership of Organic Labels US Consumers Prefer «100 % Natural» Food Label 98 % of Green - Labeled Products are Actually Greenwashed Organic Watchdog Group Takes on Aurora Dairy, USDA Who is Behind Your Green Snack?

Jonasrisen at the always interesting Greenline does a wonderful job of collecting the most obvious and awful greenwashing ads in the architectural press, starting with the most egregious of them all, the hippie ad for LG Eden countertops.

«There has been a lot of greenwash when it comes to labels, especially around cleaning products.

In reality, most greenwashing is a natural, inadvertent byproduct of greening.

An estimated 80,000 farmers will be in the sustainable quality program by the end of the 2012 — 2013 harvest season, and I hope you can agree that an significant positive impact like that should not be considered greenwashing.

Beginning the Great Organic Greenwashing Debate So is calling a baby formula made with synthetic additives «organic» actually accurate?

UNESCO report: The Threat to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function of Proposed Hydroelectric Dams in the La Amistad World Heritage Site, Panama and Costa Rica English Español Highways to Hell: A Critical Examination of the Environmental Impacts of the Security and Prosperity Partnership 25 MB version 3 MB version The Bering Sea: A Biodiversity Assessment of VertebrateSpecies Greenwashing Risks to Baby - boomers Abroad

This one's probably a bit insider - info for most TreeHugger readers, and I admit I'm partially to blame for it, but bear with me because it's if you care about rampant greenwashing and deforestation it's important: A group of prominent scientists has

While BP is far from a green company and is not even greenwashing itself like it was in the «Beyond Petroleum» days, this reminds some climate policy observers of the late 1990s corporate defections from the Global Climate Coalition, when companies were no longer denying the urgency of climate change nor the scientific consensus underpinning that urgency.

Vena says that consumers must be on guard against such greenwashing.

As the eco-friendly pet - toy segment continues to grow, retailers must discern between manufacturers that are actively green, environmentally responsible players and others that are simply greenwashing.

Our Western consumerism is so ingrained that we often justify it through greenwashing, now widely available in many different forms.

US - CAP exists only in order to engage in blatant greenwashing to try to silence the pundits calling on them to change their dirty, outdated policies.

We flagged greenwashing and green grabbing as troublesome tactics used by the... Read More

The people who did greenwash which needed most correcting were the like of npower — with their JUICE bollox — when all they really did was achieve their minimum legal obligation through JUICE but packaged it like npower was really green.