Cotton ad banned. Cotton is a pesticide and insecticide intensive crop that seriously depletes groundwater supplies, and the new ad touting cotton as sustainable has been banned:
US cotton ad banned over green claims
Giving Tree Green. Children are happy, confident, concerned and committed to making the world a better place, according to an analysis of kid's choices of colors. When Crayola asked kids to chose eight new crayon colors, they overwhelmingly chose bright happy colors and colors that reflected the environment is important to them. From that, Crayola came up with Super Happy Yellow and Giving Tree Green in 2008 Kids Choice Colors:
What color shows you are happy?
Green Budget not so green say environmentalists. Across the pond, smokers and drinkers are about to get hit with a sharp tax increase the night before St Patrick's Day. Perhaps a tax on plastic bags if supermarkets and consumers do not voluntarily make the effort to change. Free road tax for one year on low-emission cars. But that is not what is making the environmentalists unhappy. There will be no rise in tax on fuel. The economy is on the skids, the Chancellor wants to give people's wallets a break:
Darling clobbers booze, cigarettes