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		<title>Green Marketing: FAIL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading up on Foursquare on the Washington Post, a social networking tool that adds competition amongst users with a point system, when I saw this ad (right) from Ford : So I did, in fact,&#8221;*Roll over for info&#8221; and then saw the second screen (below) What? So you want us to buy a [...]]]></description>
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<td width="50%">I was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803299.html" target="_blank">reading up on Foursquare on the Washington Post</a>, a social networking tool that adds competition amongst users with a point system, when I saw this ad (right) from Ford :</p>
<p>So I did, in fact,&#8221;*Roll over for info&#8221; and then saw the second screen (below)</p>
<p>What? So you want us to buy a vehicle from you because you saved  money by reducing water usage like the rest of us and fired at least  3800 employees in 2009 alone?</td>
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<td>If you are going to spend money  on advertising, come up with something greener than unemployment and  common sense savings.</p>
<p>It also doesn&#8217;t inspire much confidence when  you&#8217;re talking about a resource that is not by any means in shortage in  your area. Michigan is <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0847261.html" target="_blank">surrounded by the largest amount of fresh water  on Earth</a>. It&#8217;s the equivalent of Siberia claiming they melted less snow  this year than last.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as bad as some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash" target="_blank">greenwashing</a>, but I think the reason it is so heinous is because of this specific industry, pulling a green campaign from the ABSOLUTELY lowest fruit that their region would have provided anyway.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope that Ford, the only non-bankrupt auto manufacturer in the USA, can do a little more than make $1 and turn off the taps when done washing&#8230;</td>
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