{"id":10292,"date":"2013-12-31T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2013-12-31T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:53:11","slug":"happy-new-year-2014-and-may-it-be-free-of-greenwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-2014-and-may-it-be-free-of-greenwash\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2014 &#8211; and may it be free of GREENWASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"775\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/greenwash_green_sauce2-624x372.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>The Oxford English Dictionary offers this useful definition of greenwash (n)<br \/>\nPronunciation:  Brit. \/\u02c8\u0261ri\u02d0nw\u0252\u0283\/ , U.S. \/\u02c8\u0261rin\u02ccw\u0254\u0283\/ , \/\u02c8\u0261rin\u02ccw\u0251\u0283\/<br \/>\nEtymology:  < green adj. + wash n., after whitewash n.\n<strong>Misleading publicity or propaganda disseminated by an organization, etc., so as to present an environmentally responsible public image; a public image of environmental responsibility promulgated by or for an organization, etc., regarded as being unfounded or intentionally misleading<\/strong>.<br \/>\n1987   D. Bellamy in <em>Sanity <\/em>Sept. 28\/1   They create a lot of environmental \u2018greenwash\u2019, and thank god for it, because they create some very good nature reserves. But they&#8217;re also commissioning uneconomic nuclear power stations.<br \/>\n1989   <em>Observer <\/em>5 Mar. 14\/2   Six Ministers launched \u2018Environment in Trust\u2019, a clutch of pastel-shaded leaflets putting a greenwash over the Government&#8217;s environmental record.<br \/>\n1993   <em>New Scientist<\/em> 10 Apr. 22\/2   While they can be useful, these sorts of standards are sometimes used quite cynically\u2014as corporate greenwash.<br \/>\n2003   <em>Managem. Today<\/em> Jan. 45\/2   Companies only report what they want to report, and it&#8217;s mostly greenwash and PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary offers this useful definition of greenwash (n) Pronunciation: Brit. \/\u02c8\u0261ri\u02d0nw\u0252\u0283\/ , U.S. \/\u02c8\u0261rin\u02ccw\u0254\u0283\/ , \/\u02c8\u0261rin\u02ccw\u0251\u0283\/ Etymology: < green adj. + wash n., after whitewash n. Misleading publicity or propaganda disseminated by an organization, etc., so as to present an environmentally responsible public image; a public image of environmental responsibility promulgated by [&hellip;]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}