Fiji Water is a fashionable bottled water sold around the world. Extracted in a country where many inhabitants don’t have access to potable water, it comes with nice portraits of natural landscapes and claims about “carbon negativity”, i.e., the company promises to offset 120% of its emissions. As usual, the environmental claims are completely unwarranted. [...]
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Fiji Water claims about “carbon negativity” are bogus
Posted in offsets on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Green war?
Posted in offsets on December 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The idea sounds crazy – because it is. Yet, both the US and the EU have discussed the possibility of introducing green design in the armament sector. Reality often surpasses fiction. A group of design students decided to make a site for a company that sells green bullets, bombs and mines (link). Bloody brilliant, I [...]
Offset buyers beware
Posted in offsets on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A nice article on The Nation, by Heather Rogers, the author of ”Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution”, where she exposes the dirty reality of some offset projects validated with the Green Standard (link).
The money tree
Posted in offsets, tagged videos on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A documentary on how conservationists created a reserve to greenwash American polluters in Brazil and ended up hurting the poor forest people (PBS).
Offsetting emissions, haha!
Posted in offsets on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The idea that you can offset your individual emissions by doing something positive for the environment, like planting trees, is so obnoxious that it sounds like a joke. Maybe that’s why two british guys lauched Cheat Neutral, a spoof website for a business consisting on offsetting cheating with fidelity among couples (link). Now, Greenpeace has [...]
