More like really over.
I blogged for more than 30 days, and will probably continue blogging about living a "green" lifestyle.
The most important thing you should all know:
ITS NOT HARD.
At all.
(but we'll talk more about that next time)
Living green is all about conscious decisions. Whether you want to make those decisions or not, the Earth needs a change.
This time, I want to talk about greenwashing.
According to Greenpeace, www.stopgreenwash.org, greenwashing can be defined as "Used to describe the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service."
Most of the big oil companies like Exxon and Shell and Chevron are huge examples of greenwashers, airing commercials about "clean coal" and "less CO2." What people don't understand, and what you'll see from the video below, is that there is no such thing as "clean coal" or "less CO2."
I recently watched a video on 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley, on Duke Energy and their greenwashing bit. It's pretty unsettling to think that America is such an educated country about the danger our world is in, but we willingly choose not to care or do anything about it. Better yet, most people choose to be ignorant about it. Good idea, lets just pretend because we can't actually see anything wrong, that nothing is really wrong and we'll all live happily ever after!
Our Earth doesn't have much time left, and obviously neither do we.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4969902n
P.S. check out TheCorsairOnline.com for the articles I've written about my green lifestyle adventures, hopefully you'll learn something new.
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