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Message to marketers on BlogAction Day: There's green in Green, but be subtle about it.
Today is something called “Blog Action Day” and the topic is The Environment.  The sad truth:  “the environment” has been politicized -- in much the same way as “homelessness”.  The old word for homelessness was "vagrancy". But I digress.  Discussions that might spawn solutions to both problems are all but drowned out by the ideological din.  This may be changing however.

Environmental protection was one of the big issues and movements to emerge during the second half of the 20th century, right up there with civil rights, women’s rights, Gay rights, etc.  Each of these movements have had reverberations in business and marketing. Today?  The Left complains about global warming deniers, the Right retorts that the whole problem is ideologically driven.  There’s truth in both positions, actually.  My favorite take on all of this comes from Jack Welch.  His is a common sense approach.  All marketers need to pay attention, however, and understand that Green is now a primary color of the business landscape, literally and figuratively.  The  trick is to make it look like you're really not interested in making money out of it.  And when you figure out how to pull this off, share it with me, OK?  Better yet, call Chevron and tell them how lame their new TV spots are.  The ones that claim they practically invented environmental protection.

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Chevron didn't invent environmental protection?!?! Ok in all seriousness green is definitely the new black as one would say in the fashion world. I think that the politicization of the environmental cause definitely has its good points. Take for instance, the energy bill on the table now that asks for a 15% renewable electricity standard and a 35 mpg fuel economy standard by 2020. I'm working with a coalition to ensure that these standards are not modified. You can help keep these standards in the final bill by signing the petition at www.energybill2007.org. This is a chance to make a real difference.

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