Oct 17
20190
Extinction Rebellion Green New Deal for capitalism Greenwash housing crisis Labour Party neoliberalism
"Once again, therefore, the environment is being subordinated to the profit margins of developers and investors, in which it represents a slice of expenditure in capitalism’s pie."
Oct 27
20160
Bob Costanza Capitalism Global Goals Greenwash Gretchen Daily Herman Daly Natural Capital Nature Conservancy Neoliberalisation New Economy PES. Payments for Ecosystem Services Peter Kareiva “internalising externalities”
"What about ecological economist Herman Daly who advocates Natural Capital and tradable permits markets, another financial instrument of exploitation? One answer is that all the aforementioned are from the USA and all apparently support the existing corporate model of market capitalism, including prices as efficient means of resource allocation."
May 06
20160
BICEP Ceres CSR Dyson Greenwash LG microplastics Nike Oceans Patagonia Polartec Siemens
"He contacted leaders in the outdoor apparel industry - big purveyors of synthetic fabrics - including Patagonia, Nike and Polartec. But none of these companies agreed to lend support."
"Indeed, the unlikely romance between Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace seems to have deepened with time. “The relationship blossomed to the point where we began sharing our five-year plans with them,” Apte says. “We want to know in advance if there are any showstoppers in there from their perspective.”
Sep 12
20131
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Green Capitalism Green Economy Greenwash Miguel Amorós
"In this way, the State, the parties, international institutions, and to a lesser extent the “social forums”, the NGOs and the sustainability “think-tanks”, play the role of regulatory mechanisms, auxiliaries of the world market, a role which they had lost during the early stages of globalization. At one stroke, the control over the production of cement, fertilizers or synthetic fibers, the recycling of wastes, the construction of new nuclear power plants, desalinization plants or golf courses, investments in renewable energy or the cultivation of crops for bio-fuel production, become political decisions."
Aug 01
20131
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Exploitation Green Economy Greenwash Honduras Landgrabs monoculture Palm WWF
"Shame—once again—on WWF for greenwashing the murderous palm oil industry. It is no wonder that DICTA waited until a week before the conference to announce it in the Honduran media."
Nov 21
20120
Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, National Wildlife Federation, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
25 x 25 Biofuels Biomass Capitalism Climate Environmental Defence Fund False Solutions Greenwash National Wildlife Federation Sierra Club World Watch Institute
"Some of my friends in the professional environmental movement have reacted as expected yesterday when I called them out for having allowed biomass burning to be a huge part of what Michigan is going to get under Proposal 3 or “25 x 25.” Accusations and anger."
"The SEFA 'partnership' model relies on voluntary commitments by governments, companies and civil society and on a large range of public-private partnerships. 'Barriers' to corporate investment are to be dismantled further – Nowhere is it acknowledged that profit-driven corporate practices and investments – including by those involved in the SEFA initiative, are in fact largely responsible for the energy poverty, human rights abuses, environmental damage and climate change that has so profoundly undermined progress towards the aims which the initiative officially exists to address."
Jun 21
20120
Carbon Markets Cargill Forestry GE GMO Greenwash HSBC Monsanto Palm Oil Shell World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"It quickly became clear that this was greenwashing for the genetically modified soybean marketers," says one attendee, referring to the practice of deceptively marketing a product as environmentally friendly. When a few Europeans wanted to talk about the dangers of the herbicide glyphosate, they were quickly silenced. "The Americans' killer argument was that they were 'technologically neutral.'"
Apr 16
20121
Carbon Markets | REDD, Conservation International, Environmental Defence Fund, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Conservation International Deforestation Forest Stewardship Council FSC Greenpeace Greenwash Nature Conservancy RAN REDD WWF
"Primary forest logging is a crime against Earth, the human family and all life - and those doing the logging, profiting and greenwashing the ecocide are dangerous criminals - who must be stopped and brought to justice. There is a zero chance of protecting and ending first time industrial logging of primary rainforests when the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs say it is sustainable, even desirable, and continue to greenwash FSC old growth timber markets – now to be expanded with potential REDD funding – providing crucial political cover and PR for forest ecocide through their presence in the organizations."