1. McDonalds Literally Greenwashes its Logo<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n McDonalds wants everyone to know they\u2019re going green\u2026ish. The fast food monster is swapping the red in their logo for green in an effort to convince Europeans that they care about the environment. To be fair, the company has made some important strides — like using environmentally-friendly refrigeration and converting used oil to biodiesel — but this is still fast food relying on distinctly un-green factory farms for their supplies, to say the least.<\/font><\/p>\n As GreenBiz.com put it, "This strategy is essentially the textbook definition of greenwashing: Promoting green in the abstract, literally re-painting your signage with the color green, while simultaneously making sparse, vague claims about environmental action."<\/font><\/p>\n 2. "Eco Smart" Hummer<\/font><\/p>\n Recipe for a whale of a fail: Take one Hummer, the most environmentally unfriendly personal vehicle known to man<\/strong>. Plaster it with images of glistening green leaves and phrases like \u2018EcoSmart\u2019, which just happens to be the name of your company. Watch your company lose credibility instantaneously, and become an internet laughingstock among the very people you were hoping would become your customers.<\/font><\/p>\n Even if this particular behemoth were somehow greener than your typical Hummer, that wouldn\u2019t mean much \u2013 but would still be more forgivable than using one of these vehicles to advertise an "eco-smart" company\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Alternet<\/a>><\/p>\n The sad thing is that people actually believe this BS, I only posted the first two to give you a taste. Click through for the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is an article listing outrageous attempts by corporations to look green. When companies like Exxon-Mobil and McDonalds think "green," they\u2019re thinking of cash, not the earth. And after all, what matters to unscrupulous marketers isn\u2019t so much the reality of their brand or product, but how the public perceives it \u2013 which often results […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Green\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/YoureStillNotGreenStupid_2357\/Green.jpg\" "\\"Green\\"")
<\/a> When companies like Exxon-Mobil and McDonalds think "green," they\u2019re thinking of cash, not the earth. And after all, what matters to unscrupulous marketers isn\u2019t so much the reality of their brand or product, but how the public perceives it<\/strong> \u2013 which often results in greenwashing so absurd, it\u2019s almost funny. These 15 examples of extreme greenwashing range from woefully ignorant to downright malicious.<\/font><\/p>\n