Greenwashing. It's so stupid, it's genius. - 2

“WATER is to Coca-Cola as clean energy is to BP.” So declared Jeff Seabright in 2005, Coca-Cola's manager of environmental affairs, when asked about the firm's new global water strategy.
http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4492835

BP
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-12-bp-gulf-oil-spill-oil-corporate-greenwashing/

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-11-a-three-way-blame-game-in-bp-oil-hearing

Coke
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/04/22/blacklash.bottled.water/?hpt=C2&imw=Y

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article408788.ece

Vedanta
http://downtoearth.org.in/vedanta.asp

Dow
Run for water:
http://theyesmen.org/dowliveearth

A collaboration with the legendary Indra Sinha

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Copy: Indra Sinha, The Great Indian Clearance Sale
Art and Illustration: The Great Indian Clearance Sale

A few writers can make people as uncomfortable with their words as Indra Sinha. And when he saw our Bhopal appeal, he thought it could be infinitely more powerful with facts about the tragedy. Here it is then: An open letter to the Prime Minsiter. Published in Bhopal on the 31st of December. Hope the nation sees the truth.
More on Bhopal by Indra Sinha:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/04/bhopal-25-years-indra-sinha
http://www.greenworld.org.uk/page189/page189.html

Did it hurt when they took away your eyes?

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Read the fantastic Down to Earth story here: Subterranean Leak.

Find out if you have the virus. Take the Bhopal Gas Tragedy test.

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Shri Ramesh says: the greenery around the abandoned premises of Union Carbide was better than most other places, and asked “Would it have been (so) with all the toxicity around?” Hope Mr. Ramesh is aware tht even Chernobyl site is teeming with nature but still not fit for humans http://bit.ly/3k4vDw

“I went inside today, touched toxic material and I am alive. I am not
coughing,” Jairam Ramesh on visiting Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal.
He also "advised" 25 years after thetragedy, it was time to move on. Really? http://www.alternet.org/environment/20627?page=1

Here's the latest report from Center for Science and Environment which shows just how contaminated the water and soil is, in Bhopal.

http://downtoearth.org.in/webexclusives/story1.htm

International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal:

http://bhopal.net/

Reports in Hindu:

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article19277.ece

Times of India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Bhopal-gas-victims-burn-Jairams-effigy/articleshow/5011375.cms

Indian Express:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/truth-about-bhopal-gas-leak-tragedy-uncomfortable-says-jairam/516435/0

Frontline story about TATA and Dow:

http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl2402/stories/20070209001704300.htm