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GBE Greenwash (Jargon Buster) G#2075

By 20 October 2012January 11th, 2021Code, Encyclopaedia, Entries, Jargon Buster

GBE GreenWash Jargon Buster

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GreenWash

A term used to describe the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly.
(GreenSpec AEP ’09)
Practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources.
(EESC ’11)
Marketing Departments wanting to promote products or services with a green flavour occasionally stray from competent to incredible unjustifiable incompetent claims.
Telling ‘porkies’, white-lies or perpetrating a ‘whitewash’ with a green flavour
(NGS BRM ’08 – GBE BRM ’21)


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Relevance to Environmental Construction:

  • Healthy
  • Environmental
  • Resourceful
  • Appropriate
  • Competent
  • Effective
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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
20th October 2012 – 11th January 2021

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Greenwash (CPD) Cover PNG


© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
20th October 2012 – 11th January 2021

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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
20th October 2012 – 11th January 2021

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