Pluralistic: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia (26 Feb 2023)

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Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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Pluralistic: 27 May 2022

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Wework founder raises $70m for blockchain-based, "voluntary" carbon credits: It's a scam matrioshka.
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Pluralistic: 24 May 2022

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HSBC: "Who cares if Miami is underwater?": Scenes from the "Moral Money Summit."
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Pluralistic: 26 Apr 2022

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Bottled water monopolist admits recycling is bullshit: "Personal responsibility" and "caveat emptor."
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Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2022

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The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.
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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2021

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Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing: It's "do well" OR "do good."
Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths: Monopoly kills fandom, literally.
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Pluralistic: 14 Apr 2021

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The FCC wants your broadband measurements: Big Cable doesn't want us to confuse the issue with relevant facts.
Murder Offsets: Greenwashing will kill us all.
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Pluralistic: 24 Mar 2021

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Green investing is a fraud: ESGs and other delusions.
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Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020

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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
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