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Retailers are Lying, Bamboo Fabric is Actually Rayon

http://www.supereco.com

The Federal Trade Commission is forcing retailers to come clean about fabrics marketed to consumers as made of renewable bamboo. The truth? Nearly all fabrics labeled "Made from Bamboo" are actually just Rayon, a man-made fabric

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Monsanto Promoting Itself at Copenhagen as Green Champion

http://www.theecologist.org

The Monsanto corporation is actually trying to convince people at Copenhagen that GM crops are a global warming solution, earning it the "worst climate lobbyist" award from NGO's

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"Green" Celebrities That Turn Out to be Hypocrites

http://earthfirst.com

While waving a green flag, these eco-celebrities suffer from stones and glass houses syndrome, often flying around the world in private planes and racking up a carbon footprint the size of entire neighborhoods of people.

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Guardian UK to Spotlight Greenwashing

http://www.guardian.co.uk

The Guardian of London is running a Best Greenwashing Adverts campaign to showcase the greatest(worst) attempts by companies to spin their polluting products and services as green, and are looking for public help to "shine a spotlight on the finest corporate disinformation in the public realm"

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Anti-Clean Coal Ad By The Cohen Brothers

http://www.boingboing.net

Saw this ad run last night during the daily show. Forget lobbying, this is the type of stuff people need to see, funny and gets the point across that clean coal is a myth

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GreenWashBall Lives Up To Its Name

http://earthfirst.com

Lighter Footstep's Chris Baskind decides to test the claims of the "detergent Free" laundry balls to see if they really work as advertised

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Clean Tech Companies; Are They Truly Green?

http://www.sciam.com

With billions of dollars in venture capital flowing into companies claiming to be green, can these companies fulfill the promise of creating a new Green economy?

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