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The Greenwash Brigade

Tech Soup

The Greenwash Brigade is a group of four environmental professionals who look for greenwashing by companies, governments and other groups and publish their findings on PublicRadio.org. They have recently published Greenwashes of the Year 2008 and here are some of their findings: Fiji Water's new green campaign.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

However, TechCrunch could find no indication in public records of traditional nonprofits or government agencies providing Oceankind with any funds. . Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji. It is thus impossible to know how much, if any, of Page’s Google fortune has ended up at Oceankind.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

TechCrunch

Bird didn’t provide details about what it means by “securing partnerships,” a phrase that could mean an extension of its franchise program called the Bird Platform or some other kind of arrangement with local governments or operators. And then there’s the bit about that $150 million.