{"id":5082,"date":"2010-06-02T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2010-06-10T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:16:36","slug":"beyond-bps-posturing-national-review-06-02-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/beyond-bps-posturing-national-review-06-02-10","title":{"rendered":"Beyond BP&#8217;s Posturing (National Review, 06.02.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Reason, Katherine Mangu-Ward rewinds to 2006 when BP embarked on their &#8220;greenwashing campaign.&#8221; The logo change, the &#8220;thinking outside the barrel,&#8221; the &#8220;mobilizing Malaysians to take action on climate change&#8221; &#8211; all in an effort to fool the public it wasn&#8217;t still a huge oil company. It should be a lesson to companies like the Detroit Three in my backyard (but it won&#8217;t be): Be passionate about what you know and folks will follow you.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from Mangu-Ward&#8217;s February 2006 article:<\/p>\n<p><i>For an example of a company apparently trying to single-handedly save the planet through expensive public relations alone, one needn&#8217;t look farther than the corporate darling of serious environmentalists and greenish consumers alike: BP. . . .<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read full article <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/56239\/beyond-bps-posturing\/henry-payne>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Reason, Katherine Mangu-Ward rewinds to 2006 when BP embarked on their &#8220;greenwashing campaign.&#8221; The logo change, the &#8220;thinking outside the barrel,&#8221; the &#8220;mobilizing Malaysians to take action on climate change&#8221; &#8211; all in an effort to fool the public it wasn&#8217;t still a huge oil company. It should be a lesson to companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}