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What is Greenwashing?

Ever wonder how to explain greenwashing?  Well I think this cartoon sums it up quite nicely.

This is the sort of mentality a lot of people and companies have regarding the environment, but if you don’t agree with it, you shouldn’t be afraid to speak your mind or boycott their products.  Once companies realize that we [...]

Do You have a Question for the Greener Truth?

We here at the Greener Truth love to have input from our readers; that’s where we have gotten some of our best post ideas.  Our articles on compact fluorescents and recycling batteries both came from readers’ questions, as did the Yike Bike and several other notable articles.    We are happy to research any interesting topics in energy, [...]

Nissan's new Journey to Zero Emissions

Usually, I am all about exposing companies for greenwashing, and when I saw this add today, my hackles initially stood on end. However, after checking it out, I have to say, the claims are true, and the ad is entertaining. Nissan’s new all electric car, the Leaf, will produce more emissions than a dinning room chair, but [...]

Horse Drawn Hummer Carriage

Here is the best use of a Hummer that I have ever seen.  If you haven’t already guessed, we here at The Greener Truth have a real problem with giant SUVs, and the Hummer symbolizes that category of wastefulness.  We were going to call the WAVE scale the Hummer Bummer scale, but thought that would [...]

Google Bike Maps

It comes as no surprise that, now that Google has their fingers in everything (even solar thermal energy production), Google Maps now has a bicycling directions feature.  We here at The Greener Truth think that this is a fantastic idea.  I have checked out a few rides that I enjoy (like this one in Boulder), [...]