Greenwashing

Apparently It’s Sue Big Oil Week

It’s lawsuit week for Big Oil. A day after Minnesota filed a groundbreaking suit, Washington, DC District Attorney General Karl Racine sued ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell, alleging that the companies “systematically and intentionally misled consumers … about the central role their products play in causing climate change.” Racine’s consumer protection lawsuit accuses the three…

Earther Dharna Noor Jun 25

Big Oil’s Climate Plans Don’t Come Close to Meeting the Paris Agreement

Climate action plans are all the rage for polluting companies. Last month, Shell pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s just the latest example: Other oil giants have recently made similar pledges as well. These pronouncements use pseudo-inspirational marketing speak, promising to “leverage” their “assets” to “reimagine” the “future.” But as a new…

Earther Dharna Noor May 12

Animal Crossing’s Nature Day Exposes How Worthless Earth Day Is

In the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there’s no such thing as Earth Day. This video game full of cute anthropomorphic villagers celebrates Nature Day instead. Like everything else in the game, Animal Crossing has managed to turn a pretty awful real-world situation (i.e. ecological collapse) into a playful event. That’s part of what…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Apr 24

Don’t Fall for Shell’s New Climate Pledge

On Thursday, Shell released a pledge and rough plan to shrink its carbon footprint to net-zero by 2050 in an attempt to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. It said it will shift its business to produce more clean energy and more biofuels (which are problematic), and help its customers, like major airline companies,…

Earther Dharna Noor Apr 16

French Oil Giant Ranked As Climate Leader the Same Week It’s Sued for Climate Negligence

A group of local governments and nonprofits in France filed an unprecedented suit against Total SA on Tuesday. They say Total isn’t doing nearly enough to take the existential threat of climate change seriously. It’s the latest in an increasingly crowded litigation space that has seen oil companies so far avoid any repercussions for wreaking…

Climate Change Dharna Noor Jan 29

Coke’s Reason For Not Ditching Single-Use Plastic Is Bullshit

Public concern about the climate and plastic crises is surging, and more and more brands are developing more sustainable business practices to cash in on said concern. But not Coca-Cola, which is doubling down and blaming consumers for its choice. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Coke’s sustainability chief said that it will…

Climate Change Dharna Noor Jan 22

BP Just Got Its Ass Sued For False Advertising

Lawyers with the environmental legal nonprofit ClientEarth filed a groundbreaking complaint against BP for greenwashing in their ads. They’re also calling for a ban on all fossil fuel ads, unless they come with “a tobacco-style health warning” about the dangers the industry poses to the planet. And they’re not asking for vague warnings about how…

Climate Change Dharna Noor Dec 5

‘Biodegradable’ Bags Can Still Carry Groceries After Three Years in the Ground, Study Finds

I’m a cat owner, so cleaning up poop is a near daily occurrence. I buy special bags for my feline son, Mellow: the biodegradable type. If I’m going to dump his poop and pine litter into the trash, might as well use do so in something that decomposes, right? Well, it turns out that those…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Apr 29

Behind the Hype of Walmart’s Sustainability Efforts

In 2005, Lee Scott, CEO of Walmart, was troubled. Activists had recently illuminated Walmart’s connections to human rights abuses, and his company’s stock was in worse shape than California’s water supply. Then, a storm arrived. As hurricane Katrina drowned the Gulf Coast coast, it provided Walmart its salvation. The company gave district and store managers…

Conservation Ian Graber-Stiehl Oct 23

How Bogus ‘Eco-Friendly’ Products Trick You

There are few things more fashionable these days than being “green”, but separating a truly eco-friendly bottle of sunscreen from a bottle of emerald-tinted snake-oil can be tough even for the shrewdest of consumers. Companies use everything from catchy buzzwords to certain color and design choices and brand associations to convince us their product is…

Conservation Ian Graber-Stiehl Aug 24

We May Need a Global Unit of ‘Green’, But It Won’t Be Easy or Clear

Ken Musgrave of Fast Company comes to the conclusion that we need a “unit” of green measurement for products, much the same way that calories and fat grams are used in food. Yes, but it won’t be so easy. How are we going to measure greenness? How much of the original product is used in…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 13

Transportation Bill Gives $45 Million To Maglev Project, Sets It Up For Fail

A new transportation bill signed by Bush on Friday would free up $45 million to build the U.S.’s first maglev train. The train will travel between Disneyland and Las Vegas at up to 300 mph and is meant to help ease traffic on the 250+ mile ride on Interstate 15. While I’m all for high-speed…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jun 7

Apparently It’s Sue Big Oil Week

Big Oil’s Climate Plans Don’t Come Close to Meeting the Paris Agreement

Animal Crossing’s Nature Day Exposes How Worthless Earth Day Is

Don’t Fall for Shell’s New Climate Pledge

French Oil Giant Ranked As Climate Leader the Same Week It’s Sued for Climate Negligence

Coke’s Reason For Not Ditching Single-Use Plastic Is Bullshit

BP Just Got Its Ass Sued For False Advertising

‘Biodegradable’ Bags Can Still Carry Groceries After Three Years in the Ground, Study Finds

Behind the Hype of Walmart’s Sustainability Efforts

How Bogus ‘Eco-Friendly’ Products Trick You

We May Need a Global Unit of ‘Green’, But It Won’t Be Easy or Clear

Transportation Bill Gives $45 Million To Maglev Project, Sets It Up For Fail

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