Archive for the ‘Marketing Claims’ Category

The Bamboom: A Fast-Growing Grass Has Investors Seeing Green

Bamboo is renowned for being the fastest growing plant in the world.  Its status as an environmentally friendly raw material – a more sustainable alternative to wood, pulp, and traditional textiles – is growing almost as quickly.  Bamboo’s ascendancy is even reflected in the IPO market: we can find five initial public offering registrations by [...]

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Carbon Neutral Coffee: May Both Your Beans And Your Marketing Claims Be Green

Like coffee? Well, duh. (I write this from Seattle, WA, so excuse my assumptions.) But most eco-conscious consumers know that every fragrant, tasty, and imported cup comes at an environmental cost. Last year, a Canadian coffee company commissioned a study that was used to calculate the carbon footprint of a single person’s coffee consumption (based [...]

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