Green Wash
This term was coined a while ago. James Martin in his recent book "The Meaning of the 21st Century" did a section on it. I like his explaination, so I quote it here.
"The world's multinational energy companies feel the need to tell the public how much they care about the environment. One of them invited me to visit its corporate headquaters in the Southern Hemisphere, which was hearalded as a green building. The building used only a few solar panels (its architect explained that it was cheaper to buy electricity from the electricity company), and it caught almost no rainwater. Both electricity and water in that region were artifically cheap, thanks to government subsidies. The profitable business decision was not to be ecologically correct. This is referred to as 'green wash' ".
This area highlights stories about our leaders and notables spinning us guff and green wash.
Please drop us an email or use the contact for is you know of any "green wash" stories you would like to share.
An Inconvienient Truth
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Al Gore, whose environmental activism inspired the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth , has been accused of hypocrisy over his own c
Utterly Futile
The Following Extract from the Sunday Telegraph "Christopher Bookers Notebook".
The utter futility of the large scale Windfarm is demonstrated very eloquently. Of course FirstMistake.or's position is that the Windturbine scheme is all about the current Government allowing huge profits to be made by their construction industry buddies.....
Kate Barker outed as NIMBY
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