Sustainability and Green Business : Explore Greenwashing

Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been greenwashing their dismal environmental performance by posing as friends of the environment. This book provides an overview of TNCs in the global economy and of their impacts on the global environment.

'Illuminating ... Earth of Sale is a fantastic primer for those looking for some historical perspectives on the environmental movement. Well-written and thoroughly researched... Earth for Sale is a clarion call for nothing short of an ecological revolution.'

Toyota would like us to think that Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to "Join the Green Revolution," and McDonald's has painted its golden arches green. Facebook has even "friended" Greenpeace.

How can consumers separate greenwash from genuine attempts to address environmental challenges?

We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy.

This book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy.

Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

Going green is the new black for big business. But how real is the climate-friendly revolution that's being advertised? Are big brands and the celebrities endorsing them really as green as they claim? In Greenwash, in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and No Logo, Guy Pearse looks behind the corporate façade - and what he finds will startle you.

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and the challenges people around the world are making against the purveyors of poison and the governments that enable them. Forward by Vandana Shiva.

An insider's examination of Big Tech's failure to keep its foundational promises and the steps the industry can take to course-correct in order to make a positive impact on the world.

In this "chilling, examination of a global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, show how, increasingly, transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply.