This is a memopad to jot down all the evil green bullshit lies and hypocrisy we see everywhere. We are a big, green stink. So can you! Join in and shake a tanned fist at the rich, untanned Green-Burning Man, Corporations, Big Banks and their Globalization of Poverty. And your fellow drivers.
The Dirt on "Green" Ads
Get the Goods.
Traffic Congestion Sucks!
We Can Do This.
"Live Free or Drive"
Carectomy!
CarFree Portland
FreePublicTransit
World CarFree Network
"Put the fun between your legs" -common bicycle tube sticker
with all the Money You Save with our ideas, you can finally afford to collect stamps, gold bars, a spare bicycle, or donate to any of these great groups working hard for our common interests.
NRDC
Heifer Int'l
Finca
Earth Defense
Greenpeace
Sierra Club
Union of Concerned Scientists
Solari (come clean, financially!)
Worldchanging notes that green is still a marketing tool used to sucker people into buying more crap, in the belief that we are somehow saving the world with a Prius.
A friend mentions a new poll of women who find hybrids to be more "macho" than Camaros. Well I never!
In the world there are many great thinkers and writers among you. Here are a few gems...
The Failure of Networked Systems, courtesy TheOilDrum
Dmitry Orlov's "Thriving in the Age of Collapse"
(and Club Orlov)
American Apparel is not the only "socially conscious" company with young, hip workforce. Trader Joes does it better and phatter! Holla!
Greenwash is the lie a company advertises about the supposed environmental benefits of its products, when those products have almost NO environmental benefit, and they sell tons of other products which are toxic to you and our air and water.
Today's coverage includes three solution-oriented programs, with varying greenwash. This installment made possible partly by hugg.commers.
1. Amusing (bicycle power)
2. Ho-hum (Las Vegas changes some bulbs)
3. Dementedly evil: more corporate-driven greenwash (hazards of biofuels).
3.5 Pretending to be healthy: Taco Bell, McDonald's, Monsanto
MIT Students Use Pedal Power to Run Computers
"MIT student cyclists are using pedal power to run laptops and supercomputers in two different challenges."
Ah, and you thought the Matrix didn't exist!
Okay countrymen and women, discuss whatever you like, about this site, greenwashing, enviro-troubles, solutions for keeping those pesky lights on, or just good old ethanol distilling secrets!
Greenwash Boom by Pratap Chatterjee rips the lid off your petroleum HDPE "carboy" of virgin GMO soy biodiesel about so-called "green fuels" which are not in the least bit green at all! Driving cars around is not now nor will it ever be green in any sense of the word...
