#10 – Greenwashing is now a familiar word. It can be described as a deceptive marketing tactic aimed at promoting a product or an organization based on unproven or unmerited environmental claims. In March 2009 TerraChoice revealed that “98% of products committed at least one of the sins of greenwashing”. Although the environmental consulting firm identified seven sins, we condensed them into three, which in our opinion are the most used and also represent the worst type of greenwashing. These practices are perversely dangerous, as they tend to add confusion and mistrust about green claims. Continue Reading »

Even when the obvious overrated environmental claims abuse the green ideologist inside of me, the pragmatist who meets the ideologist regularly found some benefits to what green experts Steve Ashkin and Scot Case call greenwashing and blame manufacturers and marketers for bringing confusion in the buyers mind, and a practice Joel Makower sees as – mainly – sloppy marketing (see previous post).
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