McDonalds asks: What are we going to do?

Wraparound ad from the Sunday Star magazine about a week ago

McDonald’s answers: We’re going to drink more coffee!

I have to admit that McDonalds have done a good thing with this. Teaming-up with Rainforest Alliance to provide sustainably harvested coffee. The famous Scottish restaurant chain says:

“Together, we can start saving the planet the same way we’ve been destroying it – with millions of people doing such a tiny bit that we barely even know we’re doing it”

That sounds like guilt to me.

Anyway – the image of the Earth looks surprisingly like material from a certain Political Party. I wonder if McDonalds are going to come out in the next few weeks with more publicity for the Greens. I for one am more inclined to visit them and grab a flat white.

theWarehouse: I just hate being treated like a fashion item

Warehouse advertisement from the Sunday magazine August 10th

Spotted this in the Sunday Star Magazine this weekend. Apparently the Warehouse can sell you a spade, seedlings, citrus trees, compost and fertilisers, and greenhouses. Well that’s grand, a sustainable life-supporting ecosystem for sale at your local megastore – love it. Except you’ve nicked our bloody branding Stephen!

It’s been happening all year. Companies you’d associated with cars, cows, and coal all jumping on the Green bandwagon. I wonder if the Warehouse are purposefully abandoning their boring old Labour Party colours?

It also occurred to me that this might need a promoter statement! If you’re going to come out in support of a political party like this you need to read the EFA and stay within the law. Surely.

Oh, and true Greenies don’t use artificial fertilisers . . . Possibly