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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. USDA Organic. What is corporate greenwash?

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. USDA Organic. What is corporate greenwash?

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Review of ‘A Small Farm Future’ by Chris Smaje

Low Impact

And nothing is healthier for human bodies or for nature than local, organic food. Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. We’d be eating in-season, local, organic food virtually all the time, apart from some preserves. Flows rather than stocks, in other words.

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12 good things that happened for the environment in 2019

AGreenLiving

Way to cut down on plastic packaging! Robots rejuvenating reefs As we learned in the classic yet highly disturbing film 2001, not all robots are trustworthy. This cactus plastic begins breaking down in a month when placed in soil and only a few days in water.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

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