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15
May

How To Avoid Buying “Greenwashed” Products

OK, so I’m sure that a select few of you out there appreciate how hard it can be to scavenge the web for a perfect picture for a half-ass post.  I wanted to put the solar butterfly wind chime on here but I couldn’t find the appropriate image.  So for those of you who feel me on this and for those of you who simply don’t care about greenwashing (and just want a picture of cute cats)… this irrelevant picture before the article is for you.  Watch as our hit count skyrockets.

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“Green-wash” (verb) - the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. Before you buy, be sure to ask yourself these questions:

1) What type of environmental claim is being made?

Is the manufacturer making a single or multi-attribute environmental claim? While valuable, single-attribute claims do not address other potential important human health and environmental issues. Environmental leadership standards such as EcoLogo and Green Seal examine all of the relevant environment impacts of a product category along with the products currently available in the market when developing a standard.

Read the rest of them at myyogaonline.com

We usually like “themed” days.  Can you guess today’s?  And please, no stupid questions as to why I reading this blog.

15
May

greenwashed

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As the world goes eco-friendly - even eco-vodka is coming to martini bars - it’s not clear how much environmental good will come from all the green products consumers are buying. Companies regularly tout something as green when it is not even good for the environment - it might just be less harmful than a competitor’s product or than one the company sold previously.

Few companies out and out lie, but they often use vague terms with no defined meaning, such as “earth friendly,” or tout an environmental benefit while leaving out the environmental harm their product can cause.

Consumers in the United States are expected to double their spending on green products and services in the next year to an estimated $500 billion, according to an annual consumer survey by Landor Associates. Turn on the television or walk down any store aisle, and it’s impossible to escape products and services being sold as greener: potato chips, household cleaners, garage doors - even trash hauling.

from Boston.com

I’m assuming there is some (ignorant) reason why you guys aren’t reading our green page at www.greenmnp.com. I’m just letting you know that the time for excuses is ovaahhh. Also, the blog that the picture links to is where I found the picture. Somehow I think that site is adorable.

14
May

Japanese Show of the Week #17

Ok, admittedly this not quite a “show”…  But it DOES illustrate why ninjas tend to ride on top of trains instead of in them.

But honestly, WTF?!  This is worse than Star Jones’ old one-piece.  My sick days would be gone so quick…

13
May

Foto del Dia 5.13

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Once our green page posted on the dazzling female coal miners et al, I found my self at once ensconced (pardon my misuse of the word) in the beautiful photos that remind us that cameras still exist and that we still have eyes. The one above is from the “pool hustlers” series. If you haven’t already seen “coal miners” and “forest defenders” then you must actually be one of the two. Either that or you live under a rock.

Christopher LaMarca is the bomb diggity (don’t act like you don’t still use that term) and his art work is here to stay. He’s kinda got this “soft/hard” thing going on like Dali, and I really enjoy his landscapes. His photos of people are nice too, but the landscapes, I find, really capture the feeling of the places. They really make the places, natural places, feel big and significant - and you the viewer, insignificant, which is really hard to do in a small format and especially on the interwebs. I highly recommend it.

13
May

Hypermiling?

Watching FOX News in the morning also “entails” a certain amount of “risk” and should be illegal in some areas.

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Hypermiler is a term coined by Wayne Gerdes to describe a driver who strives to exceed their vehicle’s EPA fuel economy rating. In conventional vehicles they can often match the mileage of an average person driving an equivalent hybrid. Hypermilers driving hybrids tend to achieve tremendous mileage, with some even exceeding 100 MPG . That being said, anyone can learn a wide variety of these skills. This site is dedicated to educating the driver of these techniques, so that they can raise their vehicles fuel economy no matter what they drive.

While Hypermiling is about a variety of techniques to improve a vehicles fuel economy, Hypermiling should not be equated with dangerous driving. While some hypermilers favor certain advanced practices that entail some risk and are in some areas illegal, these are not required nor encouraged. There are many basic techniques that are safe and actually make you a better driver, it is up to you, as a driver, to find your own particular level of comfort and fuel economy. [LINK]

Interesting stuff.  And, yes, I saw this on FOX.  Their story was about a guy (I think, the owner of the site) who had figured out when to go slow and when to go fast to achieve best mileage and therefore had been reducing himself to driving at about 25 mph on the highway and stuff like that.  I tend to use the opposite philosophy with my car (aka, horse with no teeth).  Dangle a carrot and whip it ’til it bleeds!
They have a kinda cool forum where members talk about personal modifications that they’ve made to increase economy and the like.  It’s actually a pretty good site, especially given the fact that gas is about 22 bucks a gallon nowadays.  Check it out.

12
May

Who Got that Vocab?!

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Trimaculated Tri*mac”u*la`ted\,

a. [Pref. tri- + maculated.] Marked with three spots, or macul[ae].

[LINK]

“Baby Bush was sorely disappointed that the media-men didn’t even show him a modicum of sympathy on account of his trimaculated colon.”

12
May

Fog of War - Documentary

We usually don’t mess with this name brand documentary stuff… but this one I’ve always liked.  Long but informative.  Know your history, children.

For those of you who don’t know, this film is about Robert McNamara in the 60’s.  Really decent.

12
May

He Is Too a Crybaby

Reminds me of a Ghostface line… something like “50 cent juices in the hood - they gone crazy.”

This is what happened when someone decided it would be a good idea to offer 23 cent pizzas in order to apologize to Lebron James, grown manchild.

12
May

Genius Chimp - Fireman Training

Feeling a little disenfranchised and displaced the last week or so, we have decided today to return to our tried and true formatting - at least for the day, which means… more Genius Chimp!

Video Mondays are in effect!… and I want a chimp.  Pan-kun, we love you.

12
May

Cookin’ With Coolio #6

Nobody can fault this man for using too many different ingredients.

How you gonna keep your spices in a dimmie bag?  Regardless, I want that bell pepper.

09
May

Greg Drasler

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Artropolis MNP

09
May

Young at Heart Choir - Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

09
May

Opposite Absolutes

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If, as theists argue, a materialistic world view (whether or not you base it on evolutionary theory, which arrived fairly late in human history) means that we don’t have to believe in, and have to live according to, “moral absolutes,” it by no means follows that we therefore believe in and follow “opposite absolutes.” It doesn’t mean that we have to live as sociopaths or become the henchmen for atheistic dictators ready to kill innocent people, as Ben Stein apparently argues in his film Expelled (which I haven’t seen). The whole idea of “moral absolutes” sounds incoherent to me any way, because it provides no guidance when one moral absolute comes into conflict with another. [transsurvivalist]

08
May

Are we sending the right message to ET?

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It’s midnight on a far-flung planet and some alien astronomers happen to have their radio telescopes pointed right at Earth, when they get a tiny spike in RF power - it’s a message! Quick, decode it. What’s it say?

It’s . . . it’s . . . an advertisement for Doritos. Beamed across the cosmos. On purpose.

No joke. Doritos’ latest effort will see the UK public trying to come up with the winning 30-second spot that evidently will represent humanity’s first interstellar ad campaign. With that universal fame, the winner will collect the tidy sum of 20,000 GBP.

In June, the ad will be broadcast using the high frequency radar telescope at the EISCAT Space Centre in Svalbard, Norway. It’ll be aimed toward the “habitable zone” around one of the stars in the Ursa Major constellation, one of our best candidates for an untapped populace of snack food consumers.

But it’s 42 light years away. By the time they get the message and pop over, just think of all the Doritos flavours there will be.

OK, OK, so everybody loves a good PR stunt. Admittedly it could be more enticing than the heady stuff we’ve been pumping out until now, or nothing at all. And I’m as compulsive a Doritos eater as the next guy (or the next seagull).

But we are, conceivably, talking about the first impression we are going to make on an alien population. Couldn’t we advertise something more representative of our cultures, our hopes and dreams and interplanetary worthiness? Like Spam? Corn dogs? Help me out here. After June the marketing floodgates shall be open forever - what do you think we should be pitching to the universe at large?

Jason Palmer, New Scientist intern
(Mashup by danp)

newscientist

08
May

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (colour)

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