Almost three years ago, Marketplace launched the Greenwash Brigade to explore the evolving green marketplace through the commentary of experts in...
A Minnesota colleague of mine, Cindy Ojczyk, sent me a tip on some bath tissue she'd spied that was labeled "100% Recyclable."...
Yesterday, I visited Minneapolis' Mill City Farmers Market. As I wandered around, I noticed Burning River Farm had "certified naturally grown" o...
(photo: NewsHour via Flickr) Beyond Petroleum? Beyond Penny Wise, Pound Foolish Beyond Pick up the Tab Beyond Pigs Might Fly BP, since its p...
No greenwash posts today. While it's easy to be cynical about the slow pace of environmental progress and the prevalence of greenwash, an article...
The big story this year in sustainable packaging is about Frito Lay's ® Sun Chips 100% compostable bag (and I mean 100% - compared to what? 20% ...
Now here's a double-speak that made me do a double-take: Apparently, depending on which magazine you're reading, Kohler plumbing fixture ads have...
You heard the news about the GAO report on Energy Star. (Scroll down to March 5.)...
There's a somewhat new school at the University of Minnesota: the Institute on the Environment (IonE). They're publishing a magazine, Momentum,...
I'm the Brigadier who doesn't have a TV, so I'm always tromping around online to find the commercials we comment on. This week, however, I found...

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100% recyclable... bath tissue? Yuck.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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"Certified Naturally Grown." Really?

Sunday, July 18, 2010
Yesterday, I visited Minneapolis' Mill City Farmers Market. As I wandered around, I noticed Burning River Farm had "certified naturally grown" o...
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Kill baby kill: BP's "energy mix" won't clean this bird

Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Happy Earth Day

Thursday, April 22, 2010
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The noisiest chip bag ever made - Sun Chips in your garden

Thursday, April 15, 2010
The big story this year in sustainable packaging is about Frito Lay's ® Sun Chips 100% compostable bag (and I mean 100% - compared to what? 20% ...
Posted In: behavior, compost, marketing, Sun Chips
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Found on my desk: a greenwashing overview from a new magazine

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
There's a somewhat new school at the University of Minnesota: the Institute on the Environment (IonE). They're publishing a magazine, Momentum,...
Posted In: greenwash
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The bold look of Kohler's double-speak

Monday, April 5, 2010
Now here's a double-speak that made me do a double-take: Apparently, depending on which magazine you're reading, Kohler plumbing fixture ads have...
Posted In: Kohler, water efficiency
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Is the Energy Star critique throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Sunday, March 28, 2010
You heard the news about the GAO report on Energy Star. (Scroll down to March 5.)...
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Another "natural choice," this one from Hormel

Friday, March 12, 2010
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Bizarre ad: greenwash, or just a guy in a bear suit?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I'd skipped this article when skimming Slate today, but directed toward it, I watched the HSBC ad on YouTube with the same puzzlement that both the...
Posted In: HSBC, values
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2008's greenwashes of the year

Monday, December 22, 2008
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Posted In: 2008, apple, Big Three, bottled water, BP, clean coal, DNC, RNC, Shell

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California Gov. Brown talks taxes, cuts and economic fairness

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Times-Picayune to cut back jobs and production schedule

As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...

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High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?

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First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...

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Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy

If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...