For today:
- Jill Fitzsimmons, "Warmest Year on Record Received Cool Climate Coverage," Media Matters, January 8, 2013
- "A Brief History of Greenwash," from the CorpWatch website
- Just one example of BP restricting press access during the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in 2010.
- In-class screening of Gasland
Keywords: greenwashing, front group
For further reading & research:
For further reading & research:
- 'Greenwashing' in Green Consumerism: An A-to-Z Guide (you must log into the library website to access this page)
- Jules Boykoff, "Has London 2012 Been Greenwashed?," The Guardian, April 22, 2012.
- 'Affirming Gasland' - A rebuttal to criticisms of the film that were made by a host of organizations connected to the gas industry. There has been a well-organized campaign to try and debunk the film's questions & answers, most specifically by Energy-In-Depth (E-I-D), which is s a PR firm/lobbying group funded by the American Petroleum Institute.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer, Don Hopey, has produced a number of stories about the Pennsylvania government's intricate & cozy relationships to the gas industry. You can read some of them HERE.
- Media coverage of climate change, via the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
- Watch the trailer to Promised Land
- Mark Drajem, "Gas Industry Ads Bash Promised Land," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 2013
- Jacob Chamberlain, "Campaign Aims to End Evening News' Prime Time 'Climate Science'," Common Dreams, April 2, 2013.
