This weekend our city is hosting a "Future Living Expo".
Today, I was there helping set up a stall today for a local company, who produce a solar hot water system.
Other worthwhile exhibitors include a company selling pellet woodstoves, the local Green party (very innovative), a company with a thermal building block etc.
However, the booth that took the prize for "taking the piss" was a company with a Honda hybrid taking pride of place (and a couple of bicycles hidden in the corner) calling itself "Greenfleet".
This appears to be a blatant example of greenwashing. This company is skimming profits selling an over rated vehicle while doing absolutely nothing to reduce dependency on personal motor vehicles. Worse, by promoting to the public the idea that the solution to serious climate change/peak oil problems is as easy as dropping in a new technology (hybrid vehicles/hydrogen vehicles etc) as a substitute for our current fleet of gas guzzlers, it is discouraging investment in alternatives such as public transit and cycling. In other words, its pretty much business as usual but with a superficial green tinge.
Do people who have taken the time to understand that the problem goes a whole lot deeper than mere technology substitution (e.g. refer to Monte's excellent threads on debt based money), agree that these greenwashing exercises are counter productive.
I'd be interested in hearing you views.
BTW, I'll be manning a stall there on Sunday so I might do some "research" and feedback to this site the types of responses I encounter.