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At 02:04 PM 2/14/2006 -0700, Eric Lombardi wrote: >Dear GreenYessers, > >The real reason I?m writing this is to ask you >all, and your networks, to give the bioplastics >industry some time to develop before we criticize them too heavily. [...] >The piece below is interesting (not great), and >says that we need to be more supportive of Big >Corporate Small Steps. Well, maybe? but in the >case of NW, they took a big step in building >that Nebraska PLA production facility ($300 >million, or something like that). Their product >isn?t perfect, but I?m convinced it?s a good >step toward a carbohydrate economy. > This is a tough issue, philosophically and practically. As someone who has been a corporate greenwasher as well as an on-the-edge activist (at least by Delaware standards) I think activists are often in a no-win situation. How can one distinguish the greenwashing motivation from the experimenting-with-change-motivation. Does it matter? With "business" reporters usually regurgitating corporate press releases, doesn't somebody need to inject a cautionary note? But we don't want to be perceived as the "oppose everything" people.... Do we gain or lose influence by taking a position? Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. I personally feel the US agricultural system is so profoundly unsustainable that it's hard to get excited about bio-fuels and bio-polymers. If there is a significant market segment for crops that don't have to make a pretence of being edible by man or beast, with practices get even worse......? Alan Alan Muller, Executive Director Green Delaware Box 69 Port Penn, DE 19731 USA (302)834-3466 fax (302)836-3005 greendel@no.address www.greendel.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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