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Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. It's Worse Than You Think

https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/abby-martin-infiltrated-the-us-military-its-worse-than-you-think/

#usterror #greenwashing #usmilitary #uspol #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #usimperialism

Bier und Bäume 🍻+🌳

Die EU wird regelmäßig als regulierungswütiges Bürokratiemonster dargestellt, aber was die Verbraucherschützer jüngst angestoßen haben, wird beim Verbraucher langfristig¹ zu mehr Sicherheit, Gewissheit und Produktvertrauen führen. Es geht um die Verhinderung immer neuer selbstgeschaffener Gütesiegel, was sich oft genug als Greenwashing herausstellt […]

https://vorgarten2969157.garden/2026/08/15/bier-und-baeume/
#krombacher #baumepflanzen #werbung #vorgartenblog #investigativ #Greenwashing

Übrigens: Bei Verdacht auf Greenwashing können Sie die Funde bei Verbraucherzentralen melden.

Die beigefügte Infografik zeigt typische Green Claims im Check – und macht sichtbar, welche konkreten Angaben dabei oft fehlen.

👉 zum vollständigen Umwelttipp: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/umwelttipps-fuer-den-alltag/valide-umweltaussage-greenwashing-tipps-um

👉 alle UBA-Umwelttipps: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-umwelttipps

#GreenClaims #Greenwashing #NachhaltigerKonsum #Verbraucherschutz #UmweltbewusstHandeln #BlauerEngel

@blindcoder Das versuchen wir ja mit #Millions4earth.

https://millions4.earth/m/ATZM4X727Y?lang=de

Es gibt dort einerseits Empfehlungen, was man im persönlichen Bereich tun kann, aber viel wichtiger ist der politische Bereich. Wir werden beides laufend ergänzen.

Heute in der Abschlussrunde haben zwei Frauen gesprochen, die darauf hingewiesen haben, dass kommunale Prozesse extrem wichtig sind, denn da werden Dinge getan. Egal, wer Kanzler ist, da unten laufen Verfahren und Bürger*innen können sich beteiligen und wirken!

Wenn Ihr bei Millions4earth mitmacht, bekommt Ihr zusätzlich zum Erfolg noch Punkte. =:-)

Übrigens: Ein erstes Ergebnis ist, dass nicht alle, die unterzeichnen, #Ökostrom haben. Das ist nun wirklich einfach. Man braucht dazu nur seine letzte Stromrechnung und maximal eine halbe Stunde Zeit. Hinterher spart man viel Geld und trägt zum #Klimaschutz bei.

Pro-Tipp wenn man Genossenschaftmitglied wird, wirtschaftet man praktisch in die eigene Tasche und man bekommt noch einen Rabatt. Ich habe bei sehr geringer Stromrechnung noch 140€ im Jahr weniger Stromkosten bei einem Wechsel von einem Ökostromanbieter zu einem anderen, genossenschaftlich organsiertem.

Bei der Liste von @robin_wood gibt es auch nicht viel Auswahl. Diese Liste sollte man verwenden, weil andere Anbieter nur #greenwashing betreiben.

https://www.robinwood.de/oekostrom-report-2025

Greenwashing, now available in your local grocery store..

"More than 27,000 packaged foods sold at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and Harris Farm supermarkets in Sydney were assessed by researchers from the George Institute for Global Health.

Nearly four in 10 products carried some sort of sustainability claim, the study in Public Health Nutrition found.

Associate Prof Alexandra Jones, the institute’s program lead for food governance, said the majority of claims were self-declared by the manufacturer, without independent verification.

“Consumers are increasingly trying to make food choices that are good for the planet, and manufacturers know it. What we’re finding is that the labels designed to guide those choices are largely unregulated and that creates real risks of greenwashing.”

Out of 69 different environmental claims identified by the researchers, “natural” and “vegan” appeared most often. Some, like “sustainable” or “natural”, were so broad as to be almost meaningless, she said.

“There’s no legal meaning of ‘natural’, but we know that people associate it with being better for you, or being better for the environment,” she said. “But many things are natural that are not good in a health context. Sugar is natural – that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/11/supermarket-foods-claiming-to-be-natural-or-sustainable-mostly-just-using-marketing-terms-researchers-find

#Greenwashing #Corruption #DirtyTactics #News #Australia #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi #IGA #Food #Groceries #Activism

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/10/2025

The #Clippers promised progress. #Inglewood’s Black community paid the price

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/10/inglewood-investments-not-benefiting-residents/

#IntuitDome #Intuit #LosAngeles #Olympics2028 #NOlympics #Housing #Tennants #Greenwashing #Schools #Education

@DC4DD Der Name ändert auch nichts daran, dass es sich um eine GmbH der #Fleischindustrie handelt. Ich habe noch nie ein Produkt mit deren Label gesehen, welches auch nur Haltungsform 3 erreicht.
Ich gehe stark davon aus, dass diese "Initiative" ausschließlich dazu dient, das "Für mehr Tierschutz"-Label vom #Tierschutzbund durch Ähnlichkeit zu diskreditieren.
#Rewe und #Edeka sind die reinste #Greenwashing Plage.
#InitiativeTierwohl #Tierrechte #Fleisch
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_Tierwohl

Shell en Exxon hebben nog steeds niet alle Groningse aardbevingsschade vergoed maar wel €3 miljard #dividend van de #NAM aan zichzelf uitgekeerd. Ondertussen vertellen ze sprookjes over duurzaamheid en ‘samenleving’.
#Groningen #Shell #Greenwashing
Bron: https://ap.lc/yvXSp

German government tackles false green claims in line with EU law

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-government-tackles-false-green-claims-line-eu-law #EUGreenDeal #ClimateNeutrality #greenwashing

Trotz zahlreicher #Brände in bestehenden #Holzpelletanlagen sollen zwei neue Werke in #Kalifornien nahe #Yosemite entstehen.

Dabei gelten #Holzpellets als extrem brandgefährlich. Es gab 52 Brände an US-#Pelletwerken seit 2010.

Vor Ort regt sich Widerstand. Viele sprechen von „#Greenwashing durch und durch“.

https://www.wired.com/story/in-california-a-biomass-companys-expansion-raises-fears-of-more-fires/

#Biomasse #Waldschutz #Feuergefahr #Klimapolitik # #StopptWaldverbrennen #Holzwirtschaft #Umweltschutz #StopBurningWood

#Kerala fishermen up in arms against #DeepSeaMining proposal off #Kollam coast

March 22, 2025

"The fishermen in Kerala have already launched several protests against the proposed plan to open up the sea to private mining companies as part of the Union Government’s ‘Blue Economy’ initiative.

"All the fishermen’s associations stand united in their protests against this proposal, alleging that it would bring an end to the fisheries sector in the country, not only in the #ArabianSea but also in the #BayOfBengal.

“ 'The mining, according to the scientific report we have, can disturb the seabed and completely destroy fish spawning habitats. It can also release poisonous gases trapped on the #DeepSeaFloor, causing severe #environmental issues,' Kerala Minister for Fisheries, Saji Cherian, told PTI.

"He said that deep-sea mining requires huge investments and heavy machinery, meaning only #multinational #corporations will be involved, making these areas completely inaccessible to poor fishermen.

"The Kerala government, which is strongly opposing this project, passed a resolution in the Assembly urging the Centre to withdraw it.

"The Minister said the proposed site, off the Kollam shore in Kerala in the Arabian Sea, is very rich in marine resources and serves as a lifeline for fishermen from Kerala and other states.

“ 'We have a highly diverse and extensive fish population in this area. The mining will completely wipe out this habitat, severely affecting the livelihood of fishermen in our region,' Saji Cherian said."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/economy/kerala-fishermen-up-in-arms-against-deep-sea-mining-proposal-off-kollam-coast/ar-AA1Brtp9

#NoJobsOnADeadPlanet #OceansAreLife #MarineLife #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #DarkOxygen #LifeOnEarth #Extinction #Nodules #Greenwashing #CorporateColonialism #CorporatePolluters
#BatteryAlternatives #NoCobaltMining #RecycleCopper #RecycleCobalt #RecycleZinc #Recycle! #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

#NPR: The U.S. takes a step toward allowing #mining on the ocean floor, a fragile #ecosystem

by Julia Simon, April 25, 2025

"President #Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create 'a robust domestic supply for critical minerals.'

"There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.

"The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway

"These metals can be found in potato-sized nodules lying on the ocean floor. Many of the nodules are in the middle of the Pacific ocean, beyond the legal territory of individual countries.

"Thursday's order might circumvent ongoing international negotiations to regulate deep-sea mining.

"Those regions have traditionally been overseen by an international organization, the #InternationalSeabedAuthority (#ISA). The ISA has hosted talks for years to try to hammer out a rulebook to govern a potential seabed mining industry. The U.S. did not ratify the treaty that governs the seabed, and is not a voting member of the ISA, though in the past under previous administrations it has respected the ISA process.

"In his executive order, Trump instructed federal agencies to expedite the process for reviewing and issuing permits for mining on the seafloor in both U.S. and international territory. It will use a U.S. law from 1980, the "#DeepSeabed Hard Mineral Resources Act."

"Scientists and environmental groups condemned the order, arguing that opening the deep seabed for mining could disrupt important marine ecosystems, and damage the fishing industry.

" 'This is being planned on some of the least resilient #ecosystems on the planet,' says Douglas McCauley, professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. 'It would have #catastrophic biological consequences.'

"Underwater mining can create plumes of sediment that could suffocate marine life, and degrade the #FoodWebs that fish depend on, McCauley says.

"There are also important questions about whether we actually need to be mining the seabed to get enough of these minerals for technologies like batteries, says Micah Ziegler, assistant professor of energy and chemical systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.

"While a couple of years ago researchers were concerned about the limitations of land-based mining for metals like cobalt and nickel, a variety of alternative #battery chemistries have been developed that might reduce the need for those elements, Ziegler says."

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5376482/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order

#OceansAreLife #MarineLife #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining
#DarkOxygen #LifeOnEarth #Extinction #Nodules #Greenwashing #CorporateColonialism #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks #Idiocracy
#BatteryAlternatives #NoCobaltMining #RecycleCopper #RecycleCobalt #RecycleZinc #Recycle! #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet

#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

#UnplugTrump #PuckFutin #democracy #freedom #freespeech #life_liberty_happiness #betheblizzard #theavalancheofjustice #capitalism #CapitalismIsADeathCult #CapitalismKills #SurveillanceCapitalism #deforestation #DrillBabyDrill #deforestation #DefundDeforestation #DefundExtinction #progressive #TransRights #FreeSpeechTv #america #americans #americana #defiance #truth #TruthToPower #truth2power #protest #protests #theflagisforthepeople #eagle #pollution #corporations #corporations_are_not_your_friends #NoisePollution #ClimatePollution #thereisnoplanetb #fiftyfiftyone #VoteWithYourWallet #boycott #boycottusa #UnplugTrump #ElonMusk #elonmuskisanazi #gofuck_elonmusk #PutinIsAWarCriminal #PutinWarCriminal #putin #enviroment #enviromental #TheEnviromentExcuse #FreeMedicareForAll #peace #PeaceNow #PeaceTalks #PeaceLink #PrayForUkraine #fascism #NoFascism #fascismo #fascisme #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #_ukraine #Russia #russian #russiaToday #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #greed #CapitalistGreed #PharmaGreed #FearandGreedIndex #bigpharma #peaceonearth #tariffs #tarrif #Tariff #slavery #minimumwage #minimumwageraiseplz #Aristocrat #RunawayAristocrat #aristocrat #HumanRights #HumanRightsDay #media4humanrights #portugal4humanrights #usa #usa2025 #ușa #northcarolina #northcarolina1stcongressionaldistrict #northcarolina8thdistrict #northcarolina1st #DonaldTrump #UkraineIsOurFriend #trump #trumptariffs #newyork #rejectproject2025 #project2025 #project_2025 #project2025cansuckit #2025project #2025reads #election2025 #revision2025 #eatthe1percent #EatTheRich #EatTheRichs #eatREADsleep #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #birding #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLovers #NatureArtist #WildlifePhotography #WildlifeWednesday #WildlifeMurals #mouse #reptiles #MarineReptiles #SquamateReptiles #reptile #ReptileWorld #ReptileLovers #ReptileDatabase #boycott #Boycott4Wildlife #boycott4widlife #BoycottGold4Yanomami #boycott4palestine #ChildLabor #freespeech #freespeech4all #freespeech2 #tree #trees #tree_magic #TreeTime #déforestation #DefundDeforestation #amphibians #amphibian #AmphibiansOfInstagram #instagram #_instagram #facebook #FacebookFeed #FacebookFeed #twitter #TwitterMigration #twitter2 #Hippie #beachHippie #beach #BeachTown #BeachTravel #BeachCamping #google #degoogle #GooglePixel #GooglePlay #GoogleGo #yahoo #exclude_applenews_and_yahoo #degoogling #degooglenow #diversity #BioDiversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #DiversityMatters #censorship #Queer #QueerRights #QueerInkSquad #QueerWriters #NeuroDivergent #NeurodivergentWellbeing #NeurodivergentMood #NeurodivergentThinking #autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismPride #neurospicy #neurotypical #disabled #DisabledArtist #DisabledMastodon #lgbtq #lgbtqia #LGBTQIA2S #lgbtq_plus #lgbtqAlly #StraightAlly #lgbtqia2 #lgbtqia2a #straight #gardener #GardenJoy #forest #ForestTrails #ForestWhitaker #forest_deepness #forest #foresttherapy #therapy #leaf #leafLitter #sexuality #gender #GenderEquality #GenderPayGap #GenderVerbot #dirt #cloudflare #FascistGOP #gop #native #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeBirds #insectpopulationdecline #insect #insects #InsectID #bug #bug2038 #black #peopleofcolor #eatlocal #macdonalds #camp #camping #ElderAbuse #elder #old #OldBuildings #conservation #OceanConservation #science #ScienceMastodon #OpenScience #OpenSource #mastodon #mastodonsocial #MastodonTips #lake #LakeErie #LakeCity #river #HudsonRiver #RiverSoul #river_plate #prairie #PrairieLife #pinetree #oldgrowthtree #ocean #OceanBeach #OceanHealth #flowers #WildFlowers #DailyFlowers #sky #SkyTonight #skype #discord #FuckDiscord #DiscordServer #DisneyboundingDiscord #ubuntu #UbuntuLinux #linux #linuxmint #linux_gaming #linuxgaming #GreenwashingKills #GreenWashing #furry #FurryArtist #furryart #furryfandom #totoabafish #VaquitaCPR #vaquita #fish #fishing #FishArt #FishCrow #MarineMammal #NativeMammal #mammal #StopPrimateShipments #primate #animalrights #NaturesRights #transrightsarehumanrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #transrightsreadathon #transrights #lesbian #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LesbianArt #SydneyGayandLesbianMardiGras #gay #gayMAN #GayPride #GayMastodon #intersex #IntersexRights #IntersexAwareness #TransAndIntersexPrideDublin #asexual #AsexualPride #pride #asexuality #BoycottExxon #verizon

[Video] Voices from #whitemesa Part 4: "I Love My Community"

Watch: https://vimeo.com/1023001632

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism
#Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons
#UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust
#RadioactiveContamination
#ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife
#NoUraniumMining

[Video] Voices from White Mesa, Part 3: "We're Here to Say No"

Watch: https://vimeo.com/1023001559

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism
#Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons
#UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust
#RadioactiveContamination
#ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife
#NoUraniumMining

[Video] Voices from #WhiteMesa, Part 2: "We Are One People"

"On Oct. 12, members of the #UteMountainUte Tribe held their annual #SpiritualWalk opposing the #WhiteMesaUraniumMill in Southern #Utah.

"The mill, which processes uranium and other substances, sits on sacred land just north of the tribe’s reservation boundary and is the only one of its kind in the U.S.

"Local organizers with White Mesa Concerned Community and their supporters organize the walk each year to raise awareness about the mill and demand it be shut down and cleaned up.

"Participants rallied before walking five miles to the mill site. Unicorn Riot heard from participants and organizers along the route."

Watch: https://vimeo.com/1023001512

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife #UteMountainUte #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMills

[Video] Voices from #WhiteMesa, Part 1: "Don't Nuke My Culture"

"On Oct. 12, members of the #UteMountainUte Tribe held their annual #SpiritualWalk opposing the #WhiteMesaUraniumMill in Southern #Utah.

"The mill, which processes uranium and other substances, sits on sacred land just north of the tribe’s reservation boundary and is the only one of its kind in the U.S.

"Local organizers with White Mesa Concerned Community and their supporters organize the walk each year to raise awareness about the mill and demand it be shut down and cleaned up.

"Participants rallied before walking five miles to the mill site. Unicorn Riot heard from participants and organizers along the route."

Watch: https://vimeo.com/1023001432

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife #UteMountainUte #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMills

[Thread] #Indigenous #SpiritualWalk in #Utah #Protests Last Conventional #UraniumMill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

#WhiteMesa, #Utah — "The #WhiteMesaMill was built in 1979 with plans to process #uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

"Participants met at the White Mesa Community Center in southern Utah at 11 a.m., then walked five miles north on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 191 to rally outside the mill. Throughout the hours-long walk, Unicorn Riot spoke with attendees about their opposition to the 45-year-old mill owned by Energy Fuels Inc."

Thread contains links to the four videos...

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigenous-spiritual-walk-in-utah-protests-last-conventional-uranium-mill/

#UnicornRiot #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife #UteMountainUte #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMills

📺 Greenwashed? - ALDIs Versprechen von Regionalität
🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹
Regionale Lebensmittel sind der neue Trend im Supermarkt. Auch #ALDI verspricht mit großen Kampagnen "Bestes aus der #Region". Doch hält der Discounter, was er verspricht?
https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/greenwashed/greenwashed---aldis-versprechen-von-regionalitaet-100.html

Direkter Link:
https://nrodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/none/zdf/24/11/241103_1545_aldi_gre/5/241103_1545_aldi_gre_6660k_p37v17.mp4
🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹
(27 min) verfügbar bis 25.10.2029
#FARBfernsehen #Greenwashing #Supermarkt #Discounter

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Pour faire face à la catastrophe en cours, on peut s’équiper de deux concepts :

"D’abord, la diminution de l’intensité carbone de l’économie. Concrètement, c’est ce qu’on fait avec les renouvelables. Parce qu’il y a besoin de back-up, parce que ça n’est pas non plus complètement décarboné, parce qu’elles alimentent en courant une économie qui dans sa matérialité même (acier, ciment, plastique) va dépendre du carbone pendant encore longtemps : une voiture électrique par exemple, ce n’est évidemment pas décarboné, même si cela diminue l’intensité carbone du transport. C’est évident. Pourquoi faut-il le préciser ? Parce que ça oblige à laisser sur la table la question de la taille de l’économie.

"Et donc la deuxième notion, logiquement, c’est la décroissance, le démantèlement de certains espoirs, projets, dispositifs techniques. Il y a des choses qu’il va falloir réduire voire abandonner, et organiser cela. Et une fois qu’on a dit ça, c’est la question de la répartition qui réapparaît. Si on n’imagine pas un monde où tout va croître sans problème d’environnement, la question des inégalités revient de manière un peu plus brûlante. Tout ceci est fort banal, mais cela donne un autre sens politique à la question climatique. Le débat devient un peu moins centré sur les technologies".

Une conversation avec Jean-Baptiste Fressoz : https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/02/22/une-monde-sans-transition-une-conversation-avec-jean-baptiste-fressoz/

#technoSolutionnisme #économie #énergie #technique #renouvelables #décroissance #intensitéCarbone #réseaux #Fressoz #histoire #transition #transitionÉnergétique #écologie #sobriété #lesInstitutionsMentent #écologisme #écologiePolitique #consumérisme #discontinuité #priorités #croyance #foi #espoir #capitalisme #climat #criseClimatique #RéchauffementMondial #changementClimatique #confusion #réalité #environnement #pollution #durabilité #développementDurable #greenWashing #livre #pelote

Nos #institutions sont vulnérables à des défaillances soudaines, catastrophiques, voire irréparables. Ne les croyez pas :

« Dans la plupart des contextes, les professionnel·les du climat et de la durabilité ne sont pas payé·es pour changer les choses importantes, iels sont payé·es pour protéger les choses importantes du changement.

« L'expertise en matière de climat et de développement durable est devenue une profession comme une autre. Elle propose principalement des plans à moindre coût pour des actions progressives mais socialement crédibles. En général, ces plans défendent les organisations contre les critiques et les pressions en s'engageant sérieusement à atteindre des objectifs importants mais lointains (comme « Net Zero d'ici 2050 »), associés à des mesures incrémentales et peu coûteuses à court terme. Les deux sont ensuite « triangulés » avec des arguments selon lesquels les petits pas d'aujourd'hui sont « en ligne » avec un avenir d'action audacieuse. Le principal résultat est l'affirmation que l'employeur du triangulateur « en fait assez ».

« La définition de l'expression « en faire assez » devient le champ de bataille critique avec les défenseurs et les régulateurs qui veulent plus d'action. Avec la triangulation, nous assistons au déploiement de solutions complémentaires destinées à préserver la valeur des approches lentes, des actifs et de l'expertise. L'accent est mis sur des éléments tels que les dons caritatifs, les notations ESG [critères environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance], les émissions climatiques opérationnelles (et les compensations carbone), les engagements en matière de développement durable dans le cadre de l'activité de la firme (de petites mesures qui rapportent), le comportement des employé·es (« N'oubliez pas de recycler vos tasses de café et de participer à la journée de plantation d'arbres ») et les messages (de l'écoblanchiment pur et simple aux déclarations vides de sens de soutien à la justice climatique).

« La promesse de la #triangulation - l'apparence d'un engagement sérieux, mais un programme d'action qui ne bouleverse pas les priorités de gestion et les centres de revenus existants - s'est avérée attrayante pour les dirigeant·es, pour des raisons compréhensibles : Si vous êtes un·e dirigeant·e qui n'a pas de compréhension particulière du bouleversement, l'embauche d'expert·es en triangulation vous permet de couvrir vos arrières sans inconvénient évident. Il s'agit d'une solution prête à l'emploi, qui vous permet de vous concentrer sur les modèles d'entreprise qui ont bien fonctionné jusqu'à présent. Elle limite l'exposition au fossé entre les approches lentes et les réalités rapides. Et cela fonctionne parfaitement, tant que votre horizon décisionnel est très proche, mesuré en rapports trimestriels, et n'est pas interrompu par des changements soudains.
[…]
« La triangulation rend la plupart des institutions moins performantes en matière de stratégie. Elle rend l'expertise professionnelle acquise dans le cadre de ses programmes obsolète. Elle entrave la capacité à repérer les opportunités et les compétences nécessaires pour agir de manière disruptive afin de les saisir.

« Les stratégies triangulées protègent les organisations des pressions exercées pour qu'elles agissent maintenant, mais elles affaiblissent les capacités de changement de l'organisation. Tout ce qui mérite d'être discuté se trouve en dehors des limites du débat couramment acceptable dans la plupart des cercles professionnels, parce que chaque position triangulée et chaque bulle d'expertise créent les limites dont elles ont besoin pour rester sûres. Si vous comptez sur les conseils donnés à l'intérieur des limites triangulées pour essayer de comprendre ce qui se passe, vous externalisez votre acuité stratégique à des personnes dont la compétence principale est d'éviter la question ».

Alex Steffen (en): https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job

#discontinuité #priorités #croyance #foi #espoir #écologie #lesInstitutionsMentent #économie #consumérisme #capitalisme #climat #criseClimatique #RéchauffementMondial #changementClimatique #confusion #réalité #environnement #pollution #durabilité #développementDurable #greenwashing

#MonochromeMonday

They keep killing the ancients.
Men who kill elder trees, are men who kill their children's futures.
Souls must be disconnected from nature & their spirits desperate for money, for them to be OK destroying #OldGrowth forests, for a temporary paycheque.
There are more ethical ways to earn a living.
Stop believing industrial & government #greenwashing lies.
#ClearcutLogging kills #ecosystems & throws #ecological balance out of whack.

Government tells us to not fret, that they're managing #forestry better - they're #greedy, #sellout #LIARS. You can go see for yourself, how many clearcuts are still happening on big scales, at several places across Vancouver Island & some parts of BC interior where greedy corporations are decimating the last inland #TemperateRainforest in the world. Our #neoliberal BC NDP government is OK with ongoing mass ecocide - they get money from industry lobbyists 🤑🤮😡

Don't stop, fighting to #ProtectOldGrowth #forests 🌲❤️🌲 #AncientTrees need #ForestDefenders in times of increased, rampant #CorporateGreed & sellout #ecocide enabling governments ✊️

#BCNewDeathParty #BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #Nature #ProtectNature #WildFirst #BCForestryReform #deforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #photography #BanCorporateLobbyists #DavidEby #BCNDP #EbyTheEnabler #ProtectForests #BCTourism #VancouverIsland #Cowichan #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BCgovernment #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #StopDeforestation #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #Canada #WorldInMyEyes #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #Activism #ActivistPhotography #Environmentalist #EcoJustice #FightForNature #NatureGuardians #StopTheSaws #CrimesAgainstHumanity #morose #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismVanvouverIsland #EcoCrimes #monochrome #BWphotography #BWphoto

According to a report, five of the world's largest #banks are accused of " #greenwashing " their involvement in the destruction of the #Amazon. The report highlights that their environmental and social guidelines do not cover more than 70% of the #rainforest. These banks are alleged to have financed #oil and #gas companies with billions of dollars, supporting projects that harm the Amazon, destabilise the climate, and threaten the land and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples.
#climatechange #deforestation #MultinationalCorporations #globalwarming #greed

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon

Boah, nun auch die #Seilbahnen mit einer #Greenwashing-Kampange. 🤦‍♂️🤬

Es soll keine Bilder von körperlicher Gewalt gegen #KlimaaktivistInnen geben. Außerdem soll hervorgehoben werden, dass Seilbahnen zu "100 Prozent #Elektromobilität" seien.

Tja, und die 250 bis 300 GWh Strom allein für die #Beschneiung und die 35 MILLIONEN (!!) Liter #Diesel für Pistengeräte / #Pistenraupen werden verschleiert. 🤡🤬🤬

"#Wintertourismus: #Seilbahner empfehlen bei #Klimaprotesten, Bilder von körperlicher Gewalt zu vermeiden"
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000198788/seilbahner-verband-gab-handlungsempfehlung-f252r-klimaproteste-heraus

Jetzt wird’s erst richtig kritisch #Rohstoffe
Neue EU-Ziele für die Rohstoffsicherung

"Dass die Industrie in einem Transformationsprozess steckt, sieht man auch an veränderten Rohstoffinteressen: Sorgte vor Jahrzehnten das Erdölkartell Opec für Angst und Schrecken, ist es nun die Metallgroßmacht China. Seltene Erden, #Lithium und #Silizium werden strategisch wichtig. Nur wer hier trotz Knappheiten seinen Bedarf decken kann, mischt im Zeitalter der #Digitalisierung und der #Klimaneutralität ganz vorne mit....." via @ndaktuell

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1177757.kommentar-rohstoffe-jetzt-wirdrs-erst-richtig-kritisch.html

#Extraktivismus #Energiewende #Greenwashing #CapitalismIsADeadCult #SwitchOff #Antireport #Neokolonialismus #EU

Das hätte ich nicht gedacht:

Im #Endspurt hat sich doch noch das #Gras durchgesetzt. Ich sehe, ihr habt das #Greenwashing mit dem #Bäumepflanzen verinnerlicht. Vorbildlich! 🤪

#Emissionen

Das hätte ich nicht gedacht:

Im #Endspurt hat sich doch noch das #Gras durchgesetzt. Ich sehe, ihr habt das #Greenwashing mit dem #Bäumepflanzen verinnerlicht. Vorbildlich! 🤪

#Emissionen

Das hätte ich nicht gedacht:

Im #Endspurt hat sich doch noch das #Gras durchgesetzt. Ich sehe, ihr habt das #Greenwashing mit dem #Bäumepflanzen verinnerlicht. Vorbildlich! 🤪

#Emissionen

Das hätte ich nicht gedacht:

Im #Endspurt hat sich doch noch das #Gras durchgesetzt. Ich sehe, ihr habt das #Greenwashing mit dem #Bäumepflanzen verinnerlicht. Vorbildlich! 🤪

#Emissionen

#Greenwashing mit Günther Jauch
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RT @BUND_Berlin
Die Kampagne von #Lidl für #Wegwerfflaschen arbeitet mit einem verzerrten Vergleich. U.a. verschweigt der Discounter, dass die 0,5 Liter Lidl-#Einweg-Plastikflasche aus 100%-Recyclingmaterial ökobilanziell schlechter als #Mehrweg abgeschnitten hat. https://www.duh.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/deutsche-umwelthilfe-warnt-vor-einwegplastik-kampagne-von-lidl-discounter-v…
https://twitter.com/BUND_Berlin/status/1651538211674398727

Many #Canadians are also letting their #money do the talking. #Assets in #SustainableFunds hit nearly $38 billion in #Canada last year. But finding the right #investments can be challenging: While a growing number of companies and funds claim #ClimateFriendly credentials, many don't live up to their promises.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6782981

#greenwashing #SmartMoney #InvestWisely #SpotTheGreenwash #WiseMoney #Sustainability #Investing #FinancialPlanning #environmental

This weekend #MuddyBadger promises to plant one #tree for every order placed, but it's just #greenwashing, isn't it? Read about the pros and cons of tree planting projects and why we are supporting a #reforestation project in Madagascar.
👇
https://muddybadger.co.uk/blog/why-do-we-need-more-trees/​

#SmallBiz #EthicalShopping​

Heat the Rich? Part six: British Gas/Centrica
Freedom is republishing a series of six articles by Corporate Watch about the energy cartels. CW explains:

Throughout this winter Corporate Watch has been taking a critical look at the top six UK energy
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/23/heat-the-rich-part-six-british-gas-centrica/
#bigsixenergysuppliers #BritishGas #carbonoffsetting #Centrica #CentricaGroupplc. #CorporateWatch #CostofLivingCrisis #Fracking #greenwashing #pre-paymeters

Eyewitness Story: The Last Village by Dr Setia Budhi

A lone Dayak village in Borneo surrounded by palm oil plantations has held out for 14 years and resisted
corporate infiltration by global palm oil giants. My name is Dr Setia Budhi, I am a Dayak ethnographer and human rights advocate. I visited this village recently to see how they were going.

Pictured: The Barito River, the largest river in South Kalimantan Borneo by Aditya Perdana, Getty Images

“#Dayaks DO NOT want their lands turned to #palmoil. 1. They depend on rainforests for food/weaving. 2. They don’t want their roaming area disturbed 3. They don’t want to lose their land.” Dr Setia Budhi #Boycottpalmoil 🤬🌴🚫 https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/02/eyewitness-story-by-dr-setia-budhi-the-last-village/ @palmoildetect.bsky.social

“In #Indonesia and #Malaysia’s media, people can’t distinguish #fact from #fiction. A positive narrative about #Dayaks and #palmoil is #greenwashing. This is NOT the lived reality for #Dayak people” @Setiabudhi18 #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🧐⛔️ @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/02/eyewitness-story-by-dr-setia-budhi-the-last-village/

Recently, I stayed a Ngaju Dayak village for 15 days

During my visit I wrote a lot, chatted with villagers and visited palm oil farmers.

This remote village is 125 km from downtown Banjarmasin. It’s a distance of about two hours by motorbike to arrive in a neighboring village and from then there, three hours by boat.

Located on the banks of the Barito river, the people who live here are the Ngaju Dayak.

Pictured: Dayak long house in Kalimantan, PxFuel.

The first time I visited this village was 14 years ago in 2008

Since then, I’ve always followed its development by reading the news. Especially interesting is the development that the villagers have refused the presence of palm oil plantations. They have refused to give up their lands to global corporate palm oil companies.

Fourteen years ago, I thought that this village would eventually be besieged by the expansion of oil palm plantations. My suspicions were based on what happened in neighbouring villages. They had given up and accepted the omnipresence of palm oil. Many residents sold their land to the plantations.

In these other towns, some residents work with palm oil companies in a cooperative way. Their land is planted with palm oil and they, as owners, work for the company for wages. Their activities include land-clearing, planting palm oil, along with fertilising and liming the soil.

So these people work on their own land. At that time, their daily wages are around 50,000 rupiahs ($3.30 USD) per day.

There are three reasons why the villagers do not want their ancestral lands to become a palm oil plantation:

1. They depend on the rainforest and peatlands for natural resources such as fisheries, agriculture and rattan weaving.

2. They don’t want their roaming area to be disturbed.

3. They don’t want to lose their land.

By roaming area‟ you probably think of a suburban area near you. For Dayaks, their roaming area is vastly different.

Clockwise: The Barito River: The largest river in South Kalimantan Borneo by Aditya Perdana Getty Images; Wooden Dayak village – Long Iram on the riverbank Mahakam river East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Getty Images; Nature in Annah Rais Sarawak, Malaysia by Nyiragongo Getty Images; Barito River -The largest river in South Kalimantan, Indonesia by Aditya Perdana Getty Images; Borneo’s spectacular rivers and rainforests; Getty Images; A group of beautiful Dayak Fruit Bats Dyacopterus spadiceus perched inside a hut at the Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra via Getty Images Signature collection.

The Dayak people need a roaming area for hunting, fishing and foraging for herbs, building materials and medicines

The palm oil industry is an unstoppable global corporate juggernaut that has become increasingly greedy for land in the past ten years.

When you hear about even a tiny piece of land that is about to be sold, global palm oil companies immediately and aggressively go after the land as buyers. They bargain and negotiate, driving the price down that they pay for the land – so the traditional landowners do not get paid what the land is really worth.

Pictured: Plasma Poverty, a joint investigation by Gecko Project and the BBC into major supermarket brands like Mondelez and Nestle (RSPO members) who are stripping smallholder farmers of their share of profit for palm oil.

To read the news in Indonesia and Malaysia is to read brazen lies and greenwashing about palm oil

Reading news about palm oil is an astonishing experience that will fill you with confusion and incredulity. Your newsfeed will be brimming with stories about the greatness of oil palm and the welfare of farmers.

Palm oil is considered “good” in a neoliberal sense of the financial and economic growth that it brings here as a country. Also palm oil is considered “good” as an environmentally-friendly and healthy ingredient for all to buy and consume.

There is a flood of greenwashing news across all media channels: TV, online media, and social media channels celebrating the virtues of this enormously destructive ingredient. This false narrative emphasises palm oil as a method of “care for the environment‟.

For this reason, nowadays I choose to distance myself from social media, as this content is dishonest about what palm oil is in reality.

Fake news and greenwashing example: Dayak indigenous palm oil smallholders

“Many of us grow rice, fruits and vegetables on our indigenous lands for survival and depend on the cash sales from oil palm fruits to buy what we cannot grow. Our oil palm trees empower us as indigenous peoples.”

‘Discrimination against palm oil is an injustice against indigenous people’, Borneo Today, 2018.

The reality of palm oil is vastly different for Dayak peoples

Reports carried out by news media in Borneo simulate the facts about the real events and the detrimental impact of palm oil on Dayak communities.

We as the audience must remain constantly vigilant and aware that this is bad news.

“An assistant manager came to my home. On that day my oldest son had fever. He said to my husband, “Your five hectares of land here is gone and two hectares here is gone. Go to the company and get your money.” My husband told them he doesn’t want to sell. Months later, while I was at my mother’s new house [in the plantation] and my husband was away in Malaysia, we heard a loud noise and could see smoke. I went to see, and it was crazy. My house was already burned. Everything was in there, my son’s bicycle, clothes, and all the wood we planned to build a house, all was gone.”

~ Francesca, a 28-year-old Iban Dayak mother of two, told Human Rights Watch about how she and her husband refused relocation. She said that company representatives torched her home, rendering them homeless. Story via Human Rights Watch

Pictured: Rainforest on fire, Getty Images

The difficulty of addressing and resolving oil palm conflicts is due not only to the inadequacies of Indonesia’s legal framework regarding land and plantations but also to the way in which Indonesia’s informalized state institutions foster collusion between local power holders and palm oil companies. This collusion enables companies to evade regulation, suppress community protests and avoid engaging in constructive efforts to resolve conflicts. Furthermore, this collusion has made the available conflict resolution mechanisms largely ineffective.

Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion: The Contentious Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia, (2022). Ward Berenschot, et. al., Geoforum, Volume 131, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.002

With the palm oil narrative in Indonesia – many people can no longer distinguish the real from the fake, the fact from the simulation

The media presents a seemingly diverse chorus of voices that all seem to be singing from the same songbook – all of them praising palm oil.

Interviews with field officers, researchers, seminar recordings, podcasts, PR and advertising campaigns are backed financially by the palm oil industry to glaze over and greenwash the immense environmental and social impact of palm oil.

Instead we are presented with a positive narrative about palm oil that offers improved living conditions for farmers. This is not the lived reality for Dayak people. We are told that palm oil is a lucrative crop that benefits the farmers. This is not the lived reality for Dayak people.

The greenwashing of palm oil deforestation intensifies as time goes on

News articles and reports talk about how this country is preparing to deal with climate change, so as not to damage forests and also to save forests from deforestation.

The news about child labour, child slavery and women working on oil palm plantations in horrific conditions gets little attention in media.

News about customary Dayak lands that are seized for palm oil illegally or by force is online only momentarily and quickly disappears. These violations human rights are rendered invisible by the media in here.

In our news hungry and busy world, most people don’t read beyond the headlines. The messy, corrupt and invisible world of massive land-clearing for palm oil goes on without the world knowing about it through the media. In the meantime, tropical rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia are silently disappearing.

The current era of fake news was predicted by Jean Baudrillard several decades ago

When we can no longer distinguish the truth, the facts and the real from a news. This is Hyperreality.

“The real has died and been replaced by Simulation”

~ Jean Baudrillard.

This is what Jean Baudrillard called the era of Simulacra, Simulation, and Hyperreality. When the news plays with symbols, and the public who consume or read the news only see and know about the simulation, we are existing in Hyperreality, in a Simulacra.

People who consume the news only know the simulation/ hyperreality in a Simulacra – Jean Baudrillard

A Simulacra is a combination of values, facts, signs, images and codes. In this reality we no longer find references or representations except the simulacra itself.

Image, originally tweeted by lookcaitlin (@lookcaitlin) on September 17, 2022.

Greenwashing and denialism in the media about the environmental impact of palm oil

A recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that the palm oil industry used the same aggressive tactics for greenwashing akin to the tobacco and alcohol industries. Read more

https://vimeo.com/735353691

https://vimeo.com/737272288

Research studies of SE Asian media reporting on palm oil show a denialist and greenwashing narrative that is similar to climate change denialism i.e. climate change greenwashing.

“We found that media reporting of the denialist narrative is more prevalent than that of the peer-reviewed science consensus-view that palm oil plantations on tropical peat could cause excessive greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the risk of fires.
“Our article alerts to the continuation of unsustainable practices as justified by the media to the public, and that the prevalence of these denialist narratives constitute a significant obstacle in resolving pressing issues such as transboundary haze, biodiversity loss, and land-use change related greenhouse gas emissions in Southeast Asia.”

~ Liu, Felicia & Ganesan, Vignaa & Smith, Thomas. (2020). Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Environmental Science & Policy. 114. 162-169. 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.004.

Impact of the media Simulacrum on Dayak people

Media coverage about the “goodness of palm oil” has a deep psychological impact on Dayak communities. In the news, this is where the simulation or simulacra begins to occur.

Some people cannot sort and distinguish the truth of the news content from the actual facts. Meanwhile, the village that I visited is still holding on to their traditional way of life – not to palm oil. This is the Last Village.

Dayak people in the neighbouring village tell them how they have lost their fishing resources. That now, because of the palm oil run-off and pollution there are no more fish to catch. Their roaming area has become too narrow.

They say: “Oh you are right! Keep on resisting the palm oil siege! For we are now labourers toiling for little money on our ancestral land.”

Dr Setia Budhi, Barito River, 25, July 2022

Further reading

Liu, Felicia & Ganesan, Vignaa & Smith, Thomas. (2020). Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Environmental Science & Policy. 114. 162-169. 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.004.

Manzo, Kate & Padfield, Rory. (2016). Palm oil not polar bears: Climate change and development in Malaysian media. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41. 10.1111/tran.12129.

Morris J. Simulacra in the Age of Social Media: Baudrillard as the Prophet of Fake
News. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 2021;45(4):319-336. doi:10.1177/0196859920977154

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (1998). Under the Shadows of the Queen of Diamonds: The Process of Marginalization in Isolated Communities. Indonesian Torch Foundation, Jakarta.

“The Forest is the father, land is the mother and rivers are blood

“That’s the spirituality of most Dayak people in Kalimantan. They understand the interdependent nature of everything in nature.”

~ Dr Setia Budhi : Dayak Ethnographer

Pictured: Untouched rainforest, Sumatra. Craig Jones Wildlife Photography

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