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Localwashing: the corporate co-opting of local

By Mark | August 5, 2009

I’m working on a post about Tea Baggers Gone Wild at the moment. While I’m doing that, I thought that I’d just cut and paste something from Metafilter for you to think about. What I’ve selected is brilliant little piece by a person named Miko, on the emerging corporate strategy of “localwashing.” You can read […]

Posted in Agriculture, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Marketing, Other | Also tagged Arbor Brewing Company, Budweiser, buy local, corporate co-opting, corporate crap, greenwashing, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, localwashing, MetaFilter, Miko, potato chips, Stacy Mitchell, things gone wild, Ypsilanti Beer War | 2 Comments

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