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.
Bovine Badness
Cows to Blame For Global Warming
From our Agricultural Correspondant - 11 July 2007
BBC Radio 4's Today program had an item today about how bad for the environment cattle are. They keep breathing, belching and passing wind, which contains a lot of methane, probably the wors
t greenhouse gas of all.
Highland Windfarm Jobs go to Overseas Workers
The Maths Does not add up
From our Scottish Desk
The Scotsman - Letters
Thu 31 May
2007
Maths doesn't add up
You report (29 May) that a school in
Aberdeenshire has inst
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