Greenwash
Download Greenwash full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Greenwash ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Greenwash
| Author | : Guy Pearse |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2012-09-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1921870761 |
Going green is the new black for big business. But how real is the climate-friendly revolution that's being advertised? Toyota reckons Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to 'Join the Green Revolution', and McDonald's has painted its famous golden arches green. Facebook has even 'friended' Greenpeace. But are big brands and the celebrities endorsing them really as green as they claim? In Greenwash, in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and No Logo, Guy Pearse looks behind the corporate façade - and what he finds will startle you. Nothing is sacred and no one is safe from scrutiny in this exposé of carbon scams: not the Prius or the Nissan LEAF, not the World Wildlife Fund or Earth Hour, not Oprah or Leonardo DiCaprio. For consumers trying to shop the planet green, Greenwash is a wake-up call. It's also an entertaining and practical book that helps consumers to pick the truly green businesses from the greenwashers and to demand a higher environmental standard from all. 'Guy Pearse travels the sewers of misinformation to show us exactly how, from banks to airlines, there's a growth industry in green horseshit. But, after hosing himself off, Pearse also presents us with a far more thoughtful analysis than I've read in other exposés of greenwashing.' --Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and the New York Times bestseller The Value of Nothing 'Before I read Greenwash I thought I could no longer be shocked by the skulduggery of the marketers. How wrong I was. Read Greenwash to be reminded why advertising is called the dark art and how marketing has become the most destructive force on the planet.' --Clive Hamilton, author of Affluenza and Requiem for a Species '[Greenwash] contains some brilliant exposés of capital scamming the unwary consumer, giving them a green hoodwink while continuing opposite practices elsewhere.' --Adelaide Review 'Guy Pearse's welcome book reveals the difficulty of judging the benefits and real environmental costs of the way we live.' --David Suzuki 'If you want to know how to pick the true greenies from the fakers, this book is for you.' --Green Lifestyle
Green Washed
| Author | : Kendra Pierre-Louis |
| Publisher | : Ig Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : House & Home |
| ISBN | : 9781935439431 |
The message that the environment is in peril has filtered from environmental groups to society's consciousness to shopping trolleys. The green consumer movement is everywhere, yet few are asking whether this is actually any better for the planet. By examining the major economic sectors of society, Green Washed explains that consumers cannot simply buy their way to sustainability. A new and unique take on green consumption, readers are shown that buying better is only the first step towards obtaining a truly green lifestyle.
After Greenwashing
| Author | : Frances Bowen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2014-05-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107034825 |
Examines the underlying symbolic dimensions of corporate environmentalism, helping readers to separate useful environmental information from empty corporate spin.
Beyond Greenwash
| Author | : Hamish van der Ven |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2019-03-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0190866012 |
From green frogs and blue angels to white bunnies, modern consumers are confronted by a growing array of colorful eco-labels on everything from coffee to computers. When eco-labels are credible, they can lead to dramatic change in environmental practices broadly and quickly by leveraging the purchasing power of corporate clients (e.g., Walmart and McDonalds) to influence global supply chains. But the credibility of such labels is highly variable; and despite the existence of established practices for eco-labeling, many labels remain little more than superficial exercises in "greenwash." How can consumers separate greenwash from genuine attempts to address environmental challenges? Beyond Greenwash addresses this question by systematically investigating the credibility of transnational eco-labeling organizations across countries and commercial sectors. Using an innovative proxy measure for credibility that examines adherence to established best practices, Hamish van der Ven proposes a novel theory of rigor and credibility in transnational eco-labeling that upends conventional wisdom. He argues that the credibility of an eco-label does not depend on who creates or manages it-whether a government, industry association, professional standard setter, or environmental NGO. Rather, it depends on which types of businesses use the label. More specifically, eco-labeling organizations that target bigger, consumer-facing retailers tend to create credible eco-labels out of a desire to insulate their clients from critical scrutiny and gain acceptance in new markets. This theory challenges the conventional wisdom that only governments or environmental NGOs can create meaningful environmental governance and suggests that who is being governed matters as much, if not more, than who is doing the governing.
Cleaning Up Greenwash
| Author | : Angus Nurse |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-03-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9781793600561 |
Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.
Greenwashing Culture
| Author | : Toby Miller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2017-08-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317333497 |
Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, Toby Miller argues that culture has become an enabler of environmental criminals to win over local, national, and international communities. Topics include: the environmental liabilities involved in digital and print technologies used by cultural institutions and their consumers; Hollywood's 'green celebrities' and the immense ecological impact of their jet-setting lifestyles and filmmaking itself; high profile sponsorship deals between museums and oil and gas companies, such as BP's sponsorship of Tate Britain; radical environmental reform, via citizenship and public policy, illustrated by the actions of Greenpeace against Shell's sponsorship of Lego. This is a thought-provoking introduction to the harmful impact of greenwashing. It is essential reading for students of cultural studies and environmental studies, and those with an interest in environmental activism.
Commercial Communication in the Digital Age
| Author | : Gabriele Siegert |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2017-04-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3110416832 |
In today’s digital age, online and mobile advertising are of growing importance, with advertising no longer bound to the traditional media industry. Although the advertising industry still has broader access to the different measures and channels, users and consumers today have more possibilities to publish, get informed or communicate – to “co-create” –, and to reach a bigger audience. There is a good chance thus that users and consumers are better informed about the objectives and persuasive tricks of the advertising industry than ever before. At the same time, advertisers can inform about products and services without the limitations of time and place faced by traditional mass media. But will there really be a time when advertisers and consumers have equal power, or does tracking users online and offline lead to a situation where advertisers have more information about the consumers than ever before? The volume discusses these questions and related issues.
Greenwashing Sport
| Author | : Toby Miller |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2017-07-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317333470 |
Professional sports promote their green credentials and yet remain complicit in our global environmental crisis Sports are responsible for significant carbon footprints through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries—imbuing those extractive corporations with a positive image by embedding them within the everyday pleasure of sport. Toby Miller argues that such activities amount to "greenwashing". Scrutinizing motor racing, association football, and the Olympics, Miller weighs up their environmental policies, their rhetoric of conservation and sustainability, and their green credentials. The book concludes with the role of green citizenship and organic fan activism in promoting pro-environmental sports. This is a must-read for students and researchers in media, communications, sociology, cultural studies, and environmental studies.
Greenwash
| Author | : David Lewis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
Alan works in Public Relations - he knows how to win friends and influence people, and now works for Big Oil. He also knows how to seduce women. At a charity dinner for the rainforest, he has met and fallen for Grace, a lifelong environmental activist. So when a group of friends gather in Alan's penthouse apartment on the Upper East Side to hold an "intervention" for Grace's alcoholic brother Charlie - a former Presidential hopeful - Alan sees the ideal opportunity to impress Grace with his new-found green credentials. Also present are Michael and Lauren, a couple whose marriage is on the brink, and Nancy, Charlie's estranged wife. It isn't long before the evening descends into chaos amid attempted seductions, personal revelations and heated political debate in this topical comedy about sex, lies and global warming.
