Comments on: Greenwashing Earth Day! Oh, No! Say It Ain’t So!

By: Organic and Green Mom Blog | Earth Day Reverie at Organic Mania

Organic and Green Mom Blog | Earth Day Reverie at Organic Mania — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:27:27 +0000

[...] I thought about adding my voice to those expressing disgust at the commercialization of Earth Day. But I tried that two years ago. [...]

By: Organic and Green Mom Blog | Mama, Can You Fix My Graham Cracker? at Organic Mania

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:39:27 +0000

[...] as Earth Day continues its metamorphosis into a Buy Green Holiday, it’s important to recognize that we can’t buy our way out of this mess. Sure, investments in [...]

By: Beth aka Fake Plastic Fish

Beth aka Fake Plastic Fish — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:40:53 +0000

Here! Here!

By: mama k

mama k — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:45:36 +0000

Earth Day is becoming a consumer holiday! WTH? If that is not irony I don’t know what is.

Exactly – I hope we can nip this in the bud! — Lynn

By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:53:14 +0000

what gets me the most is folks are going for it ….so many think it’s a step in the right direction.

Well, B&N has it half right…if you’re going to buy a notebook, buy one made of with recycled paper. What irked me about this is that they’re trying to turn Earth Day into an excuse for consumption…and the products they displayed were wrapped in plastic. There are so many other more appropriate ways B&N could have chosen to observe Earth Day. — Lynn

By: nadine Sellers

nadine Sellers — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:33:38 +0000

and the leader of the greenwashing police is….
your plastics detectors are on full alert and functioning.

it’s like driving down the road and noticing every single Wolkswagen, after you buy one, you see them everywhere.

good thing i don’t have one, but i am going to see shrink-wrap in my dreams now.

happy green dreams to you and the little armies of plastic watchers.

Yes, Nadine! Plastic is pernicious, esp. after you have little munchkins! — Lynn