Torontoist » greenwashing http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For IKEA, Some Dis-Assembly Required

Photo of an ad near Front Street and John Street by John Kannenberg from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Ah, IKEA. Bastion of the comfortably quirky; originator of accessible (read: cheap) design; first stop for first apartment decorators everywhere. Also: alleged destroyer of forests, purported greenwasher, and now confirmed defiler of public space. A short while [...]

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Photo of Toronto during Earth Hour 2008 by scienceduck from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. We are, just to be clear, very fond of Planet Earth. Big fans. Huge. We are, likewise, fond of initiatives which safeguard our environment, and also in favour of consciousness-raising efforts that promote such initiatives. Therefore, when we say that many [...]

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