Coca Cola’s water initiative has dissappeared from their website. But this cached document shows their former ‘commitment’ to third world water quality:

Coke and the World Wildlife Fund

Greenwashing with Coke

This film combines G-rated animal adventure with a relatively soft environmental message. The film ends with a CODA about the dire predictions of the imminent disappearance of summer sea ice in the arctic, necessary for the survival of the film’s animals. The estimated date when sea ice would be gone is 2040. But NASA’s James Hansen revised this figure down to 2012 only a few months after the film’s release. Yipes.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/11/arctic.melt.ap/index.html

Is the EPA really on our side?? If they allow corporate greenwashing on pesticide packaging and chemicals? http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3871.cfm

Ah, you could cut the hypocrisy with a knife. George W. Bush, the man who has run an E.P.A. that serves the needs of the energy industry, celebrating himself as a central figure on Earth Day… Link

The FDA is trying to limit warnings for irradiated food.

Politicians wrap themselves in a cloak of green. John Edwards was calling for 80% reduction in carbon emissions with reduceyourcarbon.com, which expired along with his candidacy in 2008.

http://www.epa.gov/

Bush era: The EPA’s Acid Rain Program? File not found. http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/reducing/index.html (Kudos to the Obama administration for fixing the link leading to its Acid Rain Program).

Bush-era kids features blame the clouds and sun but fail to call out the Bush administration itself for failing to enforce the Clean Air Act http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_kids/lucy/7.htm – something the Supreme Court has ruled it must do.

An Inconvenient Truth

This documentary featuring Al Gore and has won an academy award for the best documentary of 2006.

The award is clearly a gesture of support, and a signal of alarm, rather than a declaration that this particular film is brilliant. While informative, the film begs the question why Gore’s call to action was relatively muted in his years as the Vice President?