Green washing

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/nyregion/15bags.html

http://sinsofgreenwashing.org/media-room/press-releases/

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7064912

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the expense of potentially more serious concerns. In other words, when marketing hides a

trade-off between environmental issues.

environmentally-preferable just because it comes from a sustainably-harvested forest.

Sin of the Hidden Trade-Off occurs when one environmental issue is emphasized atPaper, for example, is not necessarily

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evidence or third-party certification.

claim various percentages of post-consumer recycled content without providing any

supporting details.

Sin of No Proof happens when environmental assertions are not backed up byOne common example is facial tissue products that

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meaningless.

formaldehyde are all naturally occurring, and poisonous. ‘All natural’ isn’t necessarily

‘green’.

Sin of Vagueness occurs when a marketing claim is so lacking in specifics as to be‘All-natural’ is an example of this Sin. Arsenic, uranium, mercury, and

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certification-like image to mislead consumers into thinking that a product has been through a

legitimate green certification process.

The (new) Sin of Worshiping False Labels is when marketers create a false suggestion orOne example of this Sin is a paper towel product

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whose packaging has a certification-like image that makes the bold claim that the product

‘fights global warming.’

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emphasized. One example is the claim that a product is

by law.

Sin of Irrelevance arises when an environmental issue unrelated to the product is‘CFC-free’, since CFCs are banned

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feel ‘green’ about a product category that is itself lacking in environmental benefits.

cigarettes are an example of this Sin.

Sin of Lesser of Two Evils occurs when an environmental claim makes consumersOrganic

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is products falsely claiming to be Energy Star certified.Sin of Fibbing is when environmental claims are outright false. One common example

involentarily laughing and crying

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/a-pill-to-control-laughing-and-weeping/

apparently there is a condition where you can cry and laugh involentarily. things like strokes and certain diseases cause it and the article said that its common but rarely heard of. its called pseudobulbar affect. and now they have a new drug that can fix it! its actually a combination of 2 already existing drugs. the article goes into how the disease is not known to alot of doctors and that there might not be a big enough market for the drug. but what interests me most is that there are people who actually laugh when they don't want to, or cry when they arn't sad. its almost hard to believe since both of those things take quite a bit of force to do. i wonder what it feels like to do that. it would be so odd to do those things without any emotion or reason for doing so

Deer breaks into college

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20101105/NEWS01/101105008/1052/COMMUNITIES02/Deer-s-rampage-leaves-Denison-University-building-a-mess

visit the link to check out the pictures!

a deer broke into 2'x2' window in the student center. when breaking through the window the deer had cut itself badly leaving a trail of blood in the hallway and snack bar area.the article said that there was blood all over the walls and furnature.

       "A local bowhunter who was contacted by Granville police shot the deer with an arrow throughan exterior window after the glass was removed, Pegher said. “It died within a few minutes,” he said."

they closed the snack area until the blood was cleaned up and the place was disinfected. the deer meat was donated to a local family, delicious!

ideas for paper #3...

What I noticed in the book was a how independant the women were in 1984, how they worked and had a high up role in the society. This is an odd thing to put in a book writtin in the late 40's because I'm pretty sure back then women were just starting to enter the work and it was highly contreversal because women were supposed to stay at home. which got me thinking, to the author is women high up in the work force an aspect of a distopian world?! Everything else was backward about that society. So what i want to do is see if other early distopian literature has the same sort of idea of womens role in their books. this might be hard to do though so the topic of my paper might change.

Mrs Parson's children

The scene in the book where winston goes over to Mrs. Parsons house to fix her sink and the kids come up to winston and scream at him stands out to me alot about what kind of society the book is set in. In the scene the children yell at winston for being a thought criminal and a traitor and lept around him like "tiger cubs" and when the mom mentions the hanging that the kids didn't get to see the kids start screaming about that. To me it seems like while the adults are timid and nervous the chilren are much more loud and violent in the way they obey the rules of big brother and society. i think its because the adults sort of passively accept that they need to obey the rules of the society the children are active believers and followers to the big brothers ideals. they seem to be taught at a very young age to try and rat out adults that they think are acting against the rules and i think they try to do this at a young age because by the time they are adults this will all be drilled into their brain so much that no one will question athority and be very subserviant to whatever the higher powers want them to do.

1984 thoughts

three themes that stand out to me in the book so far are rationing, paranoia, lies and all of these themes kind of mix together to create the overall theme of control.

in the discussion we had on monday i had mentioned how i felt there might be a correlation between 1984 and the great gatsby and i feel like no one quite understood what i meant by the reference. so to clear things up i wanted to explain my thoughts better with my blog! so the great gatsby isn't at all similar to the book 1984 HOWEVER there is a part in the great gatsby that talking about eyes on a billboard that look down onto (i think) the junk yard, and it was supposed to symbolize the eyes of god watching everyone. i thought while reading 1984 how it would be interesting if the books were written around the same time because both the authors seem to have a certain fear over all seeing powers. but they sadly were written about 20 years apart so my idea wasn't correct.

while reading i questioned how if they are constantly changing history and news and facts to support the government how do people not catch on and remember that on one day the paper said this but on another the paper said something different. Winston is aware of the lies but i think he is supposed to be due to the job he has in the story. but what about other people? do the proles ever realize the government is constantly changing and making up lies about things? my theory is that since there are thought police maybe the people who do not complacently accept the facts that are being published and told are vaporized because of their disoedience

Say no to GMO? or say yes..... hmmm

For those unaware of what GMO stands for it means Genetically Modified Organisms. And alot of our food today is genetically modified ranging from corn all the way to meat. I am not very well versed in the subject, however my hippie friend loves to discuss the problems with GMO. So this upcoming paper is a tribute to her.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/would-gmo-apples-by-another-name-taste-sweeter/?scp=2&sq=gmo&st=Search

The article above discusses how changing the description of genetically engineered food might ease peoples minds about consuming GMO products. They also discuss some of the benefits of GMO which I found refreshing since most articles talk about GMO as if were a blasphemous sin. Here are some of the benefits they mentioned:

1) genetically modifying the fruit would "reduce the need for antifungal sprays and allow consumers to purchase more locally grown fruit" (Thats good for the economy and local commerce)

2) adding genes to the fruit would prevent growers from having to spray the fruit, therefor reducing enviornmental impact

3)" apples grown in the Midwest are prone to a disease known as apple scab, and that by introducing a scab-resistant gene into the apples, scab could be prevented." (better looking and tasting fruit)

The articles below are also related to GMO and i have added them mostly for myself so i can publically bookmark them so they wont be lost. But you are welcome to look and decide for yourself whether to say yes or no to GMO
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/business/worldbusiness/03rice.html?ref=genetically_modified_food

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/09/22/genetically-modified-food-fishy-or-a-taste-of-the-future/?iref=allsearch