Advertising Is Good For You

Greenpeace ads from Romania

Advertising Agency: Scala JWT, Bucharest

Source: Ads of the World

Selling green cars in Europe

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Turin

Source: Ads of the World

Rogue Burger Kings selling "baloney"

Some Burger King restaurants in Tennessee added anti-global warming messages to their signage without the home office's approval. CLICK HERE to read the whole story.

Green toilet paper

Green and very creative.

Package design by Studio Blackburn.

Source: The Dieline

Origins will do for you what curb-side recycling won't

Origins cosmetics, known for its natural approach to skincare, will recycle your empty cosmetic tubes, jars and bottles regardless of the brand. Just bring your cosmetic empties to an Origins bricks-and-mortar store near you and Origins will make sure the waste is either recycled or used for energy recovery.

More information is at the Origins website.

Concern for the environment puts squirrel on the menu in the U.K.

From yesterday's New York Times comes a report that despite years of resistance, Brits are slowly turning on to squirrel meat. American gray squirrel meat, that is.

Mmmm. Squirrelicious.

Apparently, gray squirrels from the U.S. have spent the last century colonizing England and driving out the native red squirrels. Now there's a movement to save the red squirrels by hunting the gray ones. The rallying cry is, "Save a red. Eat a gray."

The environmental angle is working. British chefs are filling their terrines, pasties and pates with squirrel. People are eating the stuff. And Granny Clampett is vindicated.

Image: David Azia for The New York Times

Top Ten Green Companies

Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmental and public interest organizations, looked at 63 large companies and rated them on the success of their climate-control strategies. The criteria included "oversight from top executives, public disclosure of efforts, and how (the companies) dealt with greenhouse gas emissions."*

According to the report, the top ten companies are:

1. IBM
2. Tesco PLC
3. Dell Inc.
4. Intel Corp.
5. Johnson & Johnson
6. Nike Inc.
7. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
8. Applied Materials Inc.
9. Coca-Cola Co.
10. Sun Microsystems Inc.

CLICK HERE for more information including a download of the full report.

* Boston Globe

Ad campaign for Honduran forest conservation

Every minute we lose 40 acres of our forest.
Will you take him into your home when he no longer has his?

Advertising Agency: Publicidad Comercial Lowe Honduras

Source: Ads of the World

77% of consumers describe themselves as "green" and "actively living their lives conscious of their health and environment."

And 57% claim to have made a green purchase in the last 6 months.

These numbers come from a Yahoo! study. Read more about it at Brandweek.

Ad campaign for ecological washing powders

Advertising Agency: AIR, Brussels

Source: Ads of the World

Method's environmentally friendly packaging is worth a closer look

Ambient/guerrilla campaign with results that look like contemporary art

Here's how this campaign worked:

To put beach pollution into perspective, trash was collected from various beaches, packaged it to look like seafood and displayed it at local farmers' markets. This is the print extension for those who couldn't actually make it to the market."

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles

Source: Ads of the World

Turn junk mail into mulch

Get Rich Slowly  has posted some guidelines for turning junk mail into garden mulch. I think I may try this in my flower beds.