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Green gone wrongHeather Rogers

Green gone wrong

2010262 pages
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In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" producers - carbon offsets, organic, food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes - really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Verso · 9781306919180
  • Other · English · 2010
    Verso Books · 9781844676453
  • Other · English · 2010
    Verso · 278 pages · 9781844679010
  • Other · English · 2010
    Scribner · 9781439176474
  • Other · English · 2010
    Scribner · 262 pages · 9781416572220
Environmental economicsGreen productsgreen capitalismOrganic farming -- Economic aspectsRenewable and green energy