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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

Instead, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which also received a separate $1 million donation from Oceankind, took public credit for the robot research. Moreover, Oceankind itself is not a nonprofit, which are required to open their books every year in public filings to the IRS.

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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. The company’s last public fundraising announcements were more than a year ago.