Tuesday, October 12, 2010

- The end -

It's now back-to-the-studio time ! But before the curtain-fall, let's see how far we have come.

When I did my first steps in blogging here ... I had no strong background about global warming. So I tried to find some information about it and I found thousands of theories : pros, cons, scientific statements but also self-fulfilling prophecies ... I realized that serious theories and craps were next to each other in quite a mess. All this mixture of truth and untruth I discovered made me take a step back. One should be careful with all that is written  about global warming. There is kind of a green fever in the air and one can find anything and everything about Global warming. Let's take a step back and look at things from a distance !

About the communication strategies (after all ... that's the reason I am here) ... I discovered kind of an history of theses strategies. In the early ages of the Green fever, admakers were puting it like : "If you help the planet, your life will be better". Then, they turned into fear strategies, much more efficient, and put it like : "If you don't help the planet, your life will be terrible". And nowadays, it sounds like they've changed for a more sexy - but insiduous - strategy : "If you help the planet, you will be someone cool". Of course, from a firm to another, strategies do are different, but there are global trends in all this.

In a nutshell, global warming is a serious issue, but maybe we went crazy too fast about it. There is kind of a media frenzy about it and we lack perspective.






Thursday, September 30, 2010

Video test

From yellow journalism to green journalism


In a recent post, I mentioned an article from Slate Magazine (there you go) spotlighting the impermanence of fashion in journalism.( Here is another one ..) From yellow journalism, a lot of journalists have turned to green journalism in recent years. They now see the life with green glasses, find environment issues in every topic, and feel like they have a green duty to their readers.

This is revealing how intellectual postures can be influenced by trends, and how impermanent and temporary can be some looking-strong journalistic taking sides.

Eco-lego

A limited edition of a two-foot-tall motorized lego windmill set ... What more to dream about?
The bad news is that the starting bids are a bananas $1,000 and $1,700.. Being green is always expensive !

But a leopard can't change its spots.  The windmill is sold with ... a truck to transport it. Not a bike. Not an electric car. Not an hybrid. Not even a Toyota Prius. But a large dirty truck. Habits are hard to break...

Climate Change is a precious opporunity ... to let your lego see the light of day.

Here is a good reason to turn gree ! You've been told for years that you were too old to play with lego ? You felt picked on and tourmented ? Climate change is a stalking horse to let your old lego see the light of day !