My biggest pet peave is when products claim to be "green" when there is indeed nothing green about them.
A good recent example is the world's cup coming up in South Africa. Now, ignoring the fact that this is a big deal for Africa to host it's first World Cup. The designers of the project claim that this will be the greenest world cup in history. They are aiming (albeit halfheartedly) for carbon neutrality. Of course, all of this is a lie. A report on NPR found that this game will have a bigger carbon footprint than the last 5 World Cups combined. Of course, some of that was due to the fact that this world cup is not in Europe, thus more plane travel will take place.
Here are just another list of things that I have seen that clame to be "green:"
1) An external hardrive
2) A shirt
3) Dog food
If you heard about the recent
Energy Star debacle, you probably know that those are suspect, though my dad (who works for the EPA) assures me that Energy Star is being reworked.
So I guess, the only way that we can be green is to keep our old stuff. That is disgusting. Now isn't that just downright un-American?
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