Time to drive the carbon cowboys out of town

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GREEN bags - are they effective in helping to reduce our landfills, or are they simply a ''get out of jail free card''? In an article in The Sunday Age this week, Deakin University professor of environmental marketing Michael Polonsky was quoted as saying: "Whether we actually use green bags or not is actually irrelevant; we feel we're making a difference."

Buying green bags leaves us feeling less guilty than when we use plastic bags. Yet, by failing to reuse these bags enough times, we end up doing more environmental harm than good.

Of greater concern, however, is whether misinformation inherent in the voluntary carbon offsets markets - highlighted by a BusinessDay investigation in Tuesday…   [Read Full Text]