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Green Marketing & Messaging

Mission: Promote best practices in environmental communications
Founder: Dylan Touhey (2E), Victoria
Description: Green Marketing: How to Reduce Your Carbon and Hype Footrpints.
Details: Honest and relevant communications is key to changing consumer habits for greater sustainability. Companies and causes that have the ability to run impactful campaigns can be the greatest voice to enact change. The point of this community is to help people, products, services and causes that are truly trying to make the world a better place, by featuring best – and worst – practices in environmental outreach and responsible marketing.
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WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in government ministries
by Ken Shum :: 1 year ago
WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims t...
Greenwashing Goes through the Wringer
by Sean Low :: 1 year ago
Greenwashing Goes through the Wringer Companies have had an open field when it comes to making assertions about how ...
Big Oil Rallies to Save Big Oil
by Nicole sorochan :: 1 year ago
Big Oil rallies to save Big Oil A nationwide series of rallies kicked off in Texas this week urging Congress to b...
Green Products Institute Launches To Track Safety
by Ken Shum :: 1 year ago
California Institute Formed to Certify Safety of Consumer Products By JIM CARLTON California's crackdown on harmf...
Planet Earth gets a "beat-down" this month!
by Brion Hurley :: 1 year ago
This was suppose to be the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this month, however, there were three major tragedies this mont...
Rockwell Collins goes green with LEED buildings
by Brion Hurley :: 1 year ago
I had the opportunity to tour one of the LEED certified buildings on the Rockwell Collins campus in Cedar Rapids, IA. Th...
Spinning the Bottle: New Food & Water Watch Analysis Scrutinizes Bottled Water Industry’s Eco-Friendly Claims
by Judd Vinet :: 1 year ago
Spinning the Bottle New Food & Water Watch Analysis Scrutinizes Bottled Water Industry’s Eco-Friendly Clai...
10 easy ways to 'Green' up your sex life
by Dylan Touhey (2E) :: 1 year ago
10 easy ways to 'Green' up your sex life Who says going green has to be a chore? Boost your green routine and libido...
‘Natural’ wines are on the rise in France
by Ken Shum :: 1 year ago
We'll drink to that ‘Natural’ wines are on the rise in France 0 26 Feb 2010 11:59 AM by A...
Bloom: Thinking inside the box
by Dylan Touhey (2E) :: 1 year ago
Better than sliced bread? Bloom: Thinking inside the box 1 26 Feb 2010 3:16 PM by Todd Woody T...
Spain introduces tough new smoking ban
from Judd Vinet :: 1 year ago
itnnews | 02 January 2011 | Spain has introduced one of Europe's toughest smoking bans that even prohibits lighting up in open spaces. ...
Connected to: Pop Culture Campaigns  Direct Action  Green Marketing & Messaging
Green Resolutions: Meatless Mondays
from Ken Shum :: 1 year ago
GreenTV | 03 January 2011 | This list of daily resolutions came from The Daily Greens. It is a simple guideline to follow just one weekday out of the week so you can develop your new lifestyle......
Connected to: Water Impacts  Pop Culture Campaigns  Buying Green  Green Innovation  Direct Action  Repower America  Water Solutions  Green Marketing & Messaging  Fired Up Media

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
from Nicole sorochan :: 1 year ago
TEDtalksDirector | 03 January 2011 | http://www.ted.com The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving......
Connected to: Greenhouse Gases  Water Impacts  Emperilled Ecosystems  Wind Power Technologies  Building and renovating for Sustainable Living  Green Innovation  Wind energy technologies  Direct Action  Repower America  Green Marketing & Messaging  Fired Up Media  URBAN GARDENS  The effects of Mining worldwide
Environmentalism on the Half Shell
from Kieran Nelson :: 1 year ago
NationalGeographic 22 December 2010 Once plentiful, can Chesapeake Bay oysters make a comeback? Chef and National... more info Once plentiful, can Chesapeake Bay oysters make a comeback? Chef......
Connected to: Water Impacts  Emperilled Ecosystems  Ecological Sanitation  Buying Green  Green Innovation  Sustainable Seafood   Green Marketing & Messaging  Fired Up Media

Building the Green Economy: The Food Industry -Some Startling Statistics
from Judd Vinet :: 1 year ago
greenforall | 15 December 2010 | In this edition of Building the Green Economy, we look at the challenges facing our agriculture industry and highlight the opportunities and innovation occurring......
Connected to: Organic Farming  Water Impacts  Green Gardening  Buying Green  Green Innovation  Direct Action  Green Marketing & Messaging  Fired Up Media  URBAN GARDENS
Dr. Andrew Weil on pesticides in our food
from Nicole sorochan :: 1 year ago
EnvironmentalWG | 29 April 2010 | Dr. Andrew Weil, renowned medical expert on natural health and wellness, tells why and how he uses the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists from EWG's Shoppers Guide......
Connected to: Organic Farming  Water Impacts  Emperilled Ecosystems  Green Gardening  Buying Green  Green Innovation  Direct Action  Green Marketing & Messaging  URBAN GARDENS

GRITtv: The Harvest: Farming Sustainably in New York
from Judd Vinet :: 1 year ago
lauraflanders | 24 November 2010 | 4 likes, 0 dislikes Eating less meat might be better for the world, but it can definitely be delicious. Buckwheat is actually a fruit, a grain substitute that......
Connected to: Organic Farming  Green Marketing & Messaging  Fired Up Media
11 Year Old Activist, Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system
from Dylan Touhey (2E) :: 1 year ago
TEDtalksDirector | 30 November 2010 | http://www.ted.com 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping......
Connected to: Organic Farming  Water Impacts  Direct Action  Green Marketing & Messaging  URBAN GARDENS

New Wave of Houses: Smaller the Better
from Ken Shum :: 1 year ago
AssociatedPress | 29 November 2010 | As Americans downsize in the aftermath of a colossal real estate bust, at least one tiny corner of the housing market appears to be thriving. Tiny houses are......
Connected to: Building and renovating for Sustainable Living  Buying Green  Green Marketing & Messaging
Electric Vehicles Could Put Stress on Power Grid
from Nicole sorochan :: 1 year ago
AssociatedPress | 21 November 2010 | The first mass-market electric cars go on sale next month, and the nation's electric utilities couldn't be more thrilled, or worried. (Nov. 22)...
Connected to: Buying Green  Repower America  Green Marketing & Messaging