Greenwash of the Week: The Dirty Truth About Clean Coal

Greenwash of the Week: Is Wal-Mart Selling Greenwash?

Coal is over: get the picture?

A supporter from Texas created this video about why you should care about Bank of America (and Citi’s) investment in coal. If you want to get involved, start by signing RAN’s petition telling BofA and Citi to end their coal investments.

Earth Day: the whole world, not so wide

Here in RAN’s office, Earth Day passes without too much fanfare. We’re usually busy with the shareholder meetings of corporate targets and with getting the message out about our campaigns. Even so, Earth Day is an invitation for the media and all of us to think about the planet as a whole. What’s significant about [...]

Greenwash of the Week: BP tars itself

Ken Lewis, Fossil Fool of the Year

RAN’s Robin Beck attempts to present Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, with an award for the global financial institution’s massive support for dirty coal. Bank of America is the leading financial backer of mountaintop removal coal mining in the United States and a top funder of new coal-fired power plants.

Greenwash of the Week: Green Skyscrapers Aren’t

Greenwash of the Week: Hey Shell — No Means No!

This week’s greenwash is Shell Oil’s “Say No to No” campaign. Starring our own Robin Beck. Also appearing: Lawrence Lessig’s laptop (no joke).

Video Greenwash of the Week: Virgin Air’s Biofueled 747

We decided to do something a little different with this greenwash of the week: video! Here’s our own Robin Beck on the Virgin Air biofuel greenwash:

GM folds under pressure: greenwashing 2.0 and the aesthetic of authenticity

We’ve been getting some good press lately about how GM’s public relations people decided to turn off some features on gmnext.com and hold a special forum in response to our supporters’ concerns about their environmental practices (they also killed some of the images we uploaded before they ever went live). GM poured untold resources into [...]