When the mayor of San Francisco bans bottled water from city offices, and some high-profile restaurants follow suit, it's time for the bottled water industry to go on the offensive. Poland Spring's approach is to defend its environmental record with a two-page advertising spread -- complete with...
A Real Eco-Friendly House Avoids Meaningless 'Environmental Bling'
4:00 PM 3/25/2011
Do you live in a "slow house"? John Brown, founder of the Slow Home Movement (complementing the fast-moving Slow Food Movement), says there's a lot of greenwashing claims made for "eco-homes" that in reality are neither well-made, nor optimized for efficiency. They may be trying to be "slow," but...
In my recent listing of organizations that fly under "false flags," using environmental-sounding names to advance anti-green causes, I missed the Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity. It's got many trappings of an actual consumer advocacy group, but its major purpose seems to be advancing a...
Is It Really Made With Wind? Label to Keep Manufacturers Honest
1:00 PM 3/11/2011
Regular readers of this column may recall that I got irritated by a claim that a product was "made with wind energy." The green power grid is a big, unruly thing with electrons coming in from all over, and unless you're directly connected to a wind turbine (and nothing else) it's hard to justify...
12 Anti-Environmental Groups with Green Names
1:00 PM 3/8/2011
It's called waving a "false flag," using a green-sounding name on an anti-environmental organization. Most of these groups do (or did, many have fleeting existences) exactly the opposite of what their name implies.
If it's the "Land Conservation Coalition," it may have been born in the back room...
Five Green Products You Can Live Without
9:00 AM 3/2/2011
I'm sure you could create your own similar list from products you've bought with high hopes but then experienced disappointment. These are five that make green claims they're unlikely to realize:
1. Designer waters. Regular bottled water is bad enough, but when it goes upscale -- that's when it...
Ben & Jerry's 'Natural' Claims Still an Issue
3:30 PM 2/24/2011
Is Ben & Jerry's ice cream health food? Not exactly, though the images of contented cows and bucolic vistas tend to suggest that. In fact, all that goodness is headed for your waistline.
Eat just a half cup (a quarter of the pint) of Americone Dream and you're packing away 270 calories, 15...
Green Cars Running on Solar, Wind or ... Air? Yeah, Right
3:00 PM 2/23/2011
Be on the lookout for "solar-powered," "air-powered" or "wind-powered" cars. Renewable energy is great, but it is absolutely incapable of being the sole on-board source of power for car and truck
engines. It won't happen now, and it won't happen in the near future. George Jetson can buy a car like...
President Obama wants to put a million plug-in cars on the road by 2015, which will be a tall order. Indiana University recently released a fairly skeptical report, concluding, "The production intentions of automakers are currently insufficient to meet the 2015 goal, and even the current plans for...
Is the Nissan Leaf or any of the other battery cars now hitting the market "zero emission"? No, actually not, though it may seem like a no-brainer-if a car doesn't have a tailpipe, it doesn't have any emissions, right?
In reality, electric cars produce emissions because they plug into a grid...
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