You think you know what this means, don’t you? If so, then you probably understand its reference, but not its sense. My pet homonymic peeve-again symptomatic of a culture rendered senseless by fuzzy speech-is named “sound bite”. It was immediately noticed and commented upon.Ĭuriously, while googling for a book using the term, I found it used and defended in “Philosophical Practice” by Lou Marinoff: I have actually used this myself at least once that I know of: a few years ago I was a regular on an Australian media-watching newsgroup and inadvertently used the eggcorn to ask for more information about something I’d seen the night before. “Sound byte” seems to me to be born of our increasinly digitized world it’s probably more common online than offline. In 2013, The Coca-Cola Company was accused of greenwashing, after marketing a new line of plastic bottles.It doesn’t help any that “byte” itself is a pun on “bite” and is accompanied by “nybble” (for five four bits) and a few other words in the same vein. Opponents believe that the environmental claims of "green companies" are often exaggerated and have variously raised accusations of greenwashing. Supporters of green companies claim that it is far more economical to go green than it is to continue adding harmful chemicals to the atmosphere and the environment in general. This partnership, developed by Verus Carbon Neutral, links 17 merchants of the historic Corner Virginia-Highland shopping and dining neighborhood retail district, through the Chicago Climate Exchange, to directly fund the Valley Wood Carbon Sequestration Project (thousands of acres of forest in rural Georgia).
In 2009, Atlanta's Virginia-Highland became the first carbon-neutral zone in the United States. Johnson has been able to eliminate some 1.8 million pounds of volatile organic compounds and 4 million pounds of polyvinylidene chloride from commonly used household items. Using its innovative "Greenlist" process which serves to evaluate what environmental impact certain raw materials used in producing its products can have, S.C.
Johnson Company, maker of household items such as Windex and Ziploc plastic bags was environmentally aware long before it became popular to be so. Suncor, a Canadian-based oil company, was named a top performer among 23 global petroleum-producing firms with its environmentally responsible greenhouse gas management programs. Ultimately, doors are an important cause of carbon emissions (buildings account for about 41% of our primary energy consumption and an almost equivalent amount of CO2 emissions). Entry doors represent an important source of energy waste in buildings. Pella, Masonite, Marvin, Jeld-Wen and other top door manufacturers claim that their entry doors meet Energy Star requirements. The environmental impact of aviation is significant, though a number of companies are working on mitigation of aviation's environmental impact through new technologies including aviation biofuel.
Technologies include compressed natural gas, Fuel cell vehicles, Battery electric vehicles, and Hybrid electric vehicles. A number of major auto companies have developed alternative fuel vehicles and all-electric vehicles in a move to reduce petroleum consumption.
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