Greenwash

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Greenwash is a term coined to indicate an attempt to depict a product, company or practice as "green", "sustainable" or "environmentally friendly" in a dishonest or inaccurate way.

For example, attempts to portray use of fossil fuels as a clean energy source such as the term "clean coal" have been described as greenwash.^[1][2]

[edit] See also

• Clean coal

[edit] External links

• Wikipedia:Greenwash
• Greenwashing, sourcewatch.org - a wiki for tracking and revealing greenwash
• greenwashing.net
• stopgreenwashing.org - detect and combat greenwash
• greenwashingindex.com - view and rate greenwash.
• Greenwashreport.org - contains information for identifying, avoiding and reporting greenwash with a focus on Australia.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Time to bury the 'clean coal' myth, guardian.co.uk, Fred Pearce, October 30 2008
2. ↑ Green groups accused of clean coal 'greenwash', Sydney Morning Herald, April 15, 2008

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