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Good reads: a 'hidden' nuclear crisis, how China sees the US, and 'Chilecon Valley'

This week's long-form good reads may change your perspective on which country is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign entrepreneurs, the 'end' of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how China views the US.

By Allison Terry,?Correspondent / October 19, 2012

Jeremy Melul is a Stanford grad and creator of Jogabo, a social network for amateur soccer players. Here he hangs out at Start-Up Chile, a government sponsored program whose seed money was a major reason why Mr. Melul left France to grow his career.

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The world thought that the Cuban missile crisis ended in October 1962 when the United States lifted its quarantine around Cuba and the Soviet Union withdrew its medium-range missiles. However, ?the secret crisis still simmered? through November, writes Svetlana Savranskaya in Foreign Policy?. Unknown to American intelligence, the Soviets had also delivered almost 100 tactical weapons including 80 nuclear front cruise missiles, 12 nuclear warheads for dual-use Luna short-range rockets, and 6 nuclear bombs for IL-28 bombers.

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?Even with the pullout of the strategic missiles, the tacticals would stay, and Soviet documentation reveals the intention of training the Cubans to use them,? writes Ms. Savranskaya, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive.

Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan was tasked with handling the delicate negotiations with Cuba and an angry Fidel Castro, who found out about the US-Soviet agreement on the radio. Savranskaya includes a transcript from the Nov. 22, 1962, meeting between Mr. Castro and Mr. Mikoyan in which Castro expresses his humiliation: ? ?What do you think we are? A zero on the left, a dirty rag. We tried to help the Soviet Union to get out of a difficult situation.?

?In desperation, Castro almost begged Mikoyan to leave the tactical warheads in Cuba, especially because the Americans were not aware of them...,? Savranskaya writes. ?But Mikoyan rejected Castro?s pleas and cited a (nonexistent) Soviet law proscribing the transfer of nuclear weapons to third countries.

Castro had a suggestion: ?So you have a law that prohibits transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to other countries? It?s a pity. And when are you going to repeal that law?? Mikoyan was non-committal: ?We will see. It is our right [to do so].??

Understanding China?s perspective

China?s economic, cultural, and security goals do not need to be at odds with those of the West. When US policymakers understand how Beijing policymakers perceive US words and actions, a more polite and positive relationship could result.

In their essay ?How China Sees America,? Foreign Affairs writers Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell examine the perspectives of Chinese analysts and political strategists in order to understand how China perceives US actions and promises. The US, according to Beijing, is omnipresent in both its internal and external affairs, bullying it on cultural issues, trade agreements, and security issues. Chinese analysts also see the US through the Marxist political thought, ?which posits that capitalist powers seek to exploit the rest of the world,? they write.

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The Coach Who Never Paid Retail

Red Auerbach (Left) in 2000. Over the course of four decades, Auerbach outsmarted the rest of the league in drafting, trading, and signing players.

Photograph by John Mottern/AFP/Getty Images.

This piece comes from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, and published this week by Twelve.

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

And in the history of sports, there was none shrewder than Arnold ?Red? Auerbach, mastermind of the Boston Celtics when they won 16 NBA championships between 1957 and 1986. Auerbach grew up in Brooklyn, the son of an immigrant from Minsk who owned a delicatessen and a dry cleaning store. He won a basketball scholarship to George Washington University, but soon found his calling as a coach, working in high schools, the wartime Navy, and, for a few summers, a Catskills resort (where he coached a waiter named Wilt Chamberlain). In the late 1940s he was named coach of the Washington Capitols and then the Tri-Cities Blackhawks before taking over the Celtics bench in 1950. He became the team?s general manager in 1966 and its president in 1984, holdingthat position until his death in 2006.

Auerbach?s remarkable success as a coach?938 wins overall, and nine championships in one 10-year period?came in equal parts from personality and ingenuity. He was warm but demanding toward his players, belligerent toward the referees, and sometimes obnoxious toward opponents, particularly in his habit of celebrating an impending victory before the game was over by lighting up a cigar. He is credited with several innovations that changed the game forever; each exploiting a blind spot in the adversary. While high scorers fill the seats and please the crowd, Auerbach forced his Celtics to concentrate on defense and team play. (The team had no scorer in the league?s top 10 during its reign as perennial champions.) Other teams started the game with their five best players; Auerbach kept one of his on the bench as the ?sixth man,? who came in at the first substitution and made hay against tired or second-string opponents. He also perfected the fast break, in which a rebound or inbounds pass sent a pack of teammates blitzing down the court past backpedaling defenders.

But Auerbach?s greatest impact came off the court. Jerry Seinfeld once observed that in team sports, fans are essentially rooting for clothing: ?You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city.? A dynasty therefore depends not on the prowess of the bodies that fill those clothes at any one time, since they churn through team rosters so quickly, but on the cleverness of the mind that repeatedly puts them there. Over the course of four decades, Auerbach outsmarted the rest of the league in drafting, trading, and signing players.

I took special pleasure from watching Auerbach outdeal his competitors, not just as a Celtics fan but as a fellow member of an extended family of small businessmen. I am not the descendant of a long line of rabbis (as an improbably large proportion of Jews claim to be) but of makers or sellers of gloves, neckties, auto parts, and women?s garments; I grew up with the belief that God made the Jews as a light unto the nations and made the Gentiles because someone had to buy retail. I fondly recall the relish with which my uncles and grandfather would retell accounts of getting the better of some slow-witted supplier fair and square. As Canadians they were fans of hockey, not basketball, but they surely would have appreciated the genius with which Auerbach bested other managers.

Among the future greats he picked in the draft after every other team had overlooked them were K. C. Jones, John Havlicek, Sam Jones, Don Chaney, Don Nelson, and Dave Cowens. Other bargains came in young players who were clearly destined for stardom but whom other managers had assumed were undraftable: Jo Jo White because he had been conscripted into the Army (Auerbach got him into the Marine Reserves), Danny Ainge because he was under contract to the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team (Auerbach somehow freed him), and, most momentously, Larry Bird, because he was still a junior (Auerbach bided his time and offered Bird a record-setting contract a year later).

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Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Christmas came early for me this year, with Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas to celebrate the launch of her book of the same name at Food at 52 in London.

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

The food was wonderful. Lightly cured cod with slow baked celeriac started us off. The main course was a terrific roast pork (with lots of crackling), caramel potatoes (new to me but I am hooked) and lots of gravy. Red cabbage and a lovely kale and pomegranate salad were served on the side.

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas ? her Mum?s homemade crabapple and redcurrant jellies

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Dessert was rice pudding but not as we know it, lovely crunchy rice bathed in lots of whipped cream with cherries served on top. Fabulous.

All of the recipes are in Trine?s new book, Scandinavian Christmas. It is absolutely gorgeous, and I think we will be cooking from it for our Christmas dinner this year. If you are new to Trine?s work, I heartily recommend her two previous books The Scandinavian Cookbook and The Nordic Diet. Trine is an inspired and creative cook, and her books are full of deliciousness.

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Trine Hahnemann?s Scandinavian Christmas

Next February I will be travelling to Denmark to do a pop up with Trine ? more details soon.

I like food. I like to make food. Eat food. Photograph food. Write about food. Mainly in London but when I am lucky or organised further afield. This entry was posted in Random. Bookmark the permalink.

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No. 3 Florida drubs No. 9 South Carolina 44-11

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ? Florida went 0-for-October last season, with humbling losses to Alabama, LSU, Auburn and Georgia.

It bothered coaches and players for a year.

It motivated them, too.

A year later, the Gators have a chance to end the month with a division title.

"I like this better," coach Will Muschamp said. "So does everybody else."

Jeff Driskel threw four touchdown passes ? three of them after turnovers ? and the third-ranked Gators matched their win total from 2011 with a 44-11 drubbing of No. 9 South Carolina on Saturday.

The Gators avenged consecutive losses to the Gamecocks, including one a couple of years ago that ended with Steve Spurrier and his players celebrating a division title in The Swamp.

"We remember the feeling, how bad it hurt," center Jon Harrison said. "We even had guys getting emotional over it. We just used that as pure motivation to come out here and completely dominate this team."

Florida's latest whatever-it-takes win kept Muschamp's team undefeated and put it on the cusp of the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division title. The Gators (7-0, 6-0 SEC) can clinch a spot in the league's championship game by beating No. 13 Georgia next week in nearby Jacksonville.

Florida won this one with turnovers, stellar defense and more halftime adjustments ? the kind of successful tweaks that are making Muschamp and his staff seem like the right fit in Gainesville.

The Gators finished 7-6 last season, barely avoiding the program's first losing season since 1979. The struggles had outsiders questioning whether Muschamp could get Florida back to national prominence.

He's got the team there now ? even if it hasn't always been pretty.

The Gators managed just 29 yards and two first downs in the first half against South Carolina (6-2, 4-2). But they led 21-6 thanks to three turnovers.

Loucheiz Purifoy knocked the ball out of Connor Shaw's hands on the first play. Lerentee McCray recovered, giving Florida the ball at the 2-yard line. Driskel hooked up with Jordan Reed on third down, putting the Gators up early.

It also was a sign of things to come for the Gamecocks, who had trouble holding onto the ball all afternoon.

Ace Sanders fumbled on a punt return that led to Driskel's second TD pass. He found Quinton Dunbar for a 13-yard score. Dunbar spun out of DeVonte Holloman's grasp before coasting across the goal line.

On the ensuing kickoff, Solomon Patton forced Damiere Byrd to fumble. Chris Johnson picked it up and nearly scored. He was stopped at the 1, setting up Driskel's third TD pass to Reed. Driskel faked a handoff and found Reed alone in the back of the end zone, which made it 21-3.

"I'd rather have 1 yard in front of me than 75," Driskel said.

South Carolina failed to generate much offense. In fact, the Gamecocks managed two field goal in the first half thanks to penalties and returned a blocked extra point for two points in the third quarter.

Shaw completed 9 of 20 passes for 72 yards. He was benched in the second half, replaced by Dylan Thompson. Thompson completed 8 of 20 passes for 83 yards, with an interception.

"Coach Spurrier told me at halftime we were going to make the change," Shaw said. "He told me I wasn't getting the job done. I was completely supportive of him. Bottom line today, we just didn't execute."

The Gators put the game away by scoring on all three possessions in the third quarter, getting a 6-yard TD run by Omarius Hines, a field goal and a 6-yard pass from Driskel to Frankie Hammond Jr.

They made South Carolina's defensive front, which dominated in the first half, look suspect. They also better controlled standout end pass-rusher Jadeveon Clowney, who gave them fits early. And they kept South Carolina off balance with creative play-calling that included tight end Trey Burton in the wildcat.

"It was embarrassing for us, very embarrassing to lose," Spurrier said. "We've got to reevaluate a lot of our personnel and get players out there who really want to play for South Carolina. Two weeks ago, I wouldn't have thought this. We had a bad one today. LSU was bad (last week). This one was worse. We've got to regroup somehow."

Driskel completed 11 of 16 passes for 93 yards. Mike Gillislee ran 19 times for 37 yards. Reed caught four passes for 44 yards.

Florida's defense and special teams were much more impressive.

The Gators held South Carolina to 191 yards, including minus-1 in the third quarter. Marcus Lattimore, who didn't start because of a hip injury, ran just three times for 13 yards. And Florida dominated every aspect of special teams. In addition to the two forced fumbles, Kyle Christy had seven punts of at least 50 yards.

"We're on our way to being what Florida used to be, what Florida's known for," Harrison said. "We hope to accomplish that this season."

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Monogamy vs Polyamory, Hit & Quit or Love & Commit? - Love and ...

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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 2:30 am?? ?Post subject: Monogamy vs Polyamory, Hit & Quit or Love & Commit?
Which is better for people on the spectrum in your opinion? I am wondering what the healthier option is and I'd like to get some general views on this topic. I have seen many people on the spectrum hold to the idea that a relationship is the ultimate solution to their problems, some even act as if a relationship will somehow magically make them happy and free them from responsibilities in their life. I have seen other people on the spectrum that acknowledge they have no desire for a committed relationship and aim to strive for their academic or financial goals and make a positive contribution through them. I am not judging anyone for making either lifestyle choice, I just want to get an opinion on what is better for people on the spectrum and why.

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MXH wrote: Thats a wrong definition of polyamory. The latter being more as being in a relationship with many people, not as much as having no commitment type of deal which is what you described. That out of the way I dont believe in there being a set one that people should strive for. Depending on the circumstances and if people are open and consenting, I agree that neither choice is right or wrong morally and it can depend on the individual. However some people can be pressured into a marriage by family members and this can lead a person to be in a situation that isn't ideal for them. If polyamory and openness was advertised and pushed as more of a lifestyle choice instead of monogamy, would less marriages fail and less people cheat on their partners?

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Rorberyllium wrote: As a polyamorous person who has had a number of long-term poly relationships I find the thread title offensively inaccurate. Polyamorous relationships aren't less committed than monogamous relationships. If anything, the openness and honesty necessary for a true poly relationship requires even more commitment. They may not be sexually or romantically exclusive, but at least everyone knows what's going on and can establish rules and limits. Whereas in a monogamous arrangement a person who has feelings for someone else will hide/repress those feelings causing a strain in the relationship and in a worst case scenario cheat on their partner. This.

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Anti-military vibes emerge as vets go to college

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

The insult expressed in the Rutgers University class was aimed at the nearly 1 million veterans enrolled at U.S. schools under the GI Bill. And Scott Hakim, barely a year removed from combat, took the slam personally.

?Why should we pay for these guys to go to college?? Hakim said he recalls a female student asking?during a discussion on the nation?s responsibility to service members returning from war.? ?Everybody who goes into the military is stupid ? that?s why they joined the military instead of going to college.?

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Scott Hakim, a Marine infantryman in combat, now attends Rutgers University. The school has a military-friendly reputation. But even there, Hakim says he heard another student bash enrolled veterans. Hakim at a recent wedding with girlfriend Emma Valenti.

Hakim ? a Marine infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan ? immediately vowed to out-study every classmate on the midterm exam and said he?ultimately posted?the highest mark: 98 out of 100. Later, he said, he overheard that same female student reveal her grade: F.?

?I guess I proved her wrong,? Hakim said. ?It wasn't a me-versus-her thing, more like: Maybe now she realizes how idiotic her statement was.?

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Anti-veteran sentiments ? though sporadic and scattered ? are nonetheless emerging at some American colleges just as thousands of veterans enroll with their tuition fees fully covered by the post-9/11 GI Bill. In student gatherings or via anonymous posts in online forums, some university students are expressing open disdain for former service members now massing in academia.

Student Veterans of America, a support network with more than 500 campus chapters, acknowledges the presence of some unwelcoming vibes. ?It exists,? said Michael Dakduk, executive director of SVA. ?But, by and large, college students respect the sacrifices made by those who have served in the military.?

At Columbia University in New York City, a wounded Iraq War veteran was heckled and booed?in February by fellow students as he argued for the return to that school of the Reserve Officers? Training Corps, or ROTC, during a campus meeting. That reaction angered the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who openly questioned the school?s leadership.

At the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, student veteran Jason Thigpen said he has ?personally experienced what seems to be ?anti-veteran? sentiment on more than a few occasions.?

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Scott Hakim served with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and again in Afghanistan, where he was wounded by an IED in 2010.

?I had a History 101 professor in 2011 actually refer to how much better he was than military service members,? said Thigpen, an Army National Guard member who served in Iraq through January 2010. The UNC ?system seems to disregard us in such a widespread manner, most student veterans no longer bother to even admit their time in-service, which is just sad.?

UNC, Wilmington spokeswoman?Janine Iamunno responded:?"UNC Wilmington proudly offers veterans, active-duty members of the military, and their families several programs and resources to support their unique educational needs. This is an extension of our commitment to? the journey of learning, and to the premium we place on an open dialogue between faculty and students about the opportunities and challenges we face individually and as a community."

At Rutgers, meanwhile, there is irony attached to the unfriendly dig uttered in one of Hakim?s classes. That sort of behavior is well out of the norm, he said: ?Other than that one time, Rutgers has been absolutely amazing.? In Afghanistan, Hakim?s vehicles ran over and detonated five IEDs. On a sixth occasion, he stepped on an IED, sustaining a traumatic brain injury. ?If I have to miss a class (due to the injury), my professors are accommodating. The whole school itself is great with veterans.?

"Rutgers, like the rest of the country, has successfully been able to separate the warrior from the war," said?Steve Abel, a retired Army colonel and director of the office of veteran military programs and services at Rutgers.

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"I was on a college campus around the time of (the) Kent State (shootings). I'm a product of the Vietnam era. So when I was driving here (a couple of years ago to start the job), I wondered: What is Rutgers going to be like from a staff and student body perspective, being a big and liberal university?" Abel said. "Any apprehension I had about that relationship absolutely dissolved when I got here. They could not have been more welcoming to me, my team and to the student veterans here."

In fact, Rutgers was rated a ?military friendly? school in?the 2013 ?G.I. Jobs? list?of colleges where veterans feel appreciated and have an array of academic and social help available.

Last month, when NBC News reported on the latest list of ?military friendly? schools, several readers offered comments via newsvine.com that derided the nation's newest?veterans.

?This post-9/11 love affair with the military is disgusting. Paying people to illegally invade other countries and kill innocent men, women and children is immoral. Screw the military,? wrote a reader who calls herself OVUgirl.

?I have to agree with OVUgirl. Seeing the immoral military glorified on campus is disgusting,? wrote another reader who uses the newsvine handle Gandhi Fan.

Through newsvine, NBC News asked both of those readers to elaborate on their comments for this story. Neither responded.

?I don?t think you?ll see (those types of feelings expressed) as overtly on the ground at college campuses,? said SVA leader Dakduk. ?But ...?you can say things anonymously online ? you can say pretty much everything ? so that?s where you?ll see it most.?

Another leading veterans group suspects that some student veterans who blatantly grab GI Bill money with no plans to actually sit in a college classroom are further fueling that ill will.

Under the post-9/11 GI Bill, the federal government directly reimburses colleges for a veteran?s tuition fees. In addition, each student veteran receives a housing allowance that, depending on the university?s zip code, can run as high as $2,040 per month if the veteran has dependents. They also each get $1,000 annually for books and supplies.

?What happens is that too many of the people get the GI Bill and don?t go to class. They spend the money elsewhere and the college has to cut them loose,? said John E. Pickens III, executive director of?VeteransPlus, a?nonprofit that has offered financial counseling to more than 150,000 current and former service members.?

?That?s one of the issues that kind of took us by surprise,? he added. ?When we go to these colleges and ask: How can we help? That?s one of the things we hear from the student advisers: ?Look, I?ve got kids who come here and enroll to get their GI Bill and they end up not going to school.'?

?Unfortunately," Pickens said, "you have some folks who game the system."?

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Branding Sustainability: A Whole New Ball Game. | Sustainable ...

I cut my advertising teeth in a world where massive campaigns were created to trumpet innovations that were usually incremental, or insignificant. While it was terrific fun for me as a creative director, I believe in hindsight our clients would?ve been better served diverting ad funds into r&d. Designer Yves Behar captured the sentiment succinctly: ?Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.?

Fast forward to today. Technology has dramatically accelerated the pace of innovation. Sustainability has become a design filter, pushing new materials and engineering to the forefront. Original, better products are everywhere.

But what about advertising?

It seems ?small innovation, big campaign? brands are waning. Our growing unease at hyperconsumption (partially fueled by a growing awareness of climate change) is making us cynical about the status quo. Social media has turned us into a world of investigative journalists, decrying brands that don?t ?get? the new world.

One would think brands with innovation and sustainability built in would be trumpeting from the hilltops. Not so.

Adidas. Big Ideas, Softly Spoken.

Alexis Olans is Senior Global Program Manager of Innovation for Adidas? Better Place sustainability program.

She?s speaking this year at Sustainable Brands? inaugural London conference, exploring the culture shift that?s changing the way we think about sustainable innovation.??

Core to her topic is a new paradigm for communicating the brand of sustainability.

In conversation, she points to events like the London Olympics as a massive celebration of sustainability. ?A few years ago, sustainability had a crunchy Granola feel.? says Olans. ?Today, thanks to events like the Olympics, people simply accept sustainability as a better way forward.?

Adidas, a major player at the Games, reaped the rewards not just in profile, but in new partnerships and thinking. ?The Olympics enabled us to do a lot of cross brand learning, sharing ideas with companies in completely different sectors like packaging.? says Olans.

But how does Adidas communicate sustainability outside the context of massive events? Olans paints a much subtler, perhaps even contradictory picture.

?At Adidas, we see sustainability as simply the right thing to do, not something to lever to our brand?s advantage.? Olans understands how this approach can create an uncomfortable brand tension. ?Before London, we didn?t even talk about our sustainability. In fact, consumers had a hard time accessing information on our sustainability credentials.?

Wouldn?t celebrating Adidas impressive sustainability achievements help the brand? ?Certainly, but Olans says her company?s culture is one of actions, not words. ?We?ve committed to sustainability, but we know there?s still much more to do.? What?s more, she believes overusing sustainability in communication can create a cynical backlash in consumers.

Performance First, Sustainability A Close Second

That said, Olans sees a new way for brands to communicate sustainability.

With 60 major apparel and footwear manufacturers, retailers and suppliers, Adidas joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. Although the Coalition?s mandate is to measure and standardize the environmental and social impacts of clothing, it is also standardizing the language surrounding sustainability.

?It?s in our best interest to create a common language, with hard measures behind any claims.? says Olans. ?That way, the industry can single out imposters, and begin to market sustainability in a credible, authentic way.?

Olans agrees that sustainability marketing is a real need. ?Consumers still want performance first. But more and more, they?re looking for clothing with sustainability built in.?

It?s still early days, but Olans feels hopeful. Progress is palpable. And by keeping communication reserved, she believes brands will win the trust of skittish consumers.

Lessons For Marketers

Sustainability is an important part of brands that want to futureproof themselves.? So how can you incorporate your brand?s sustainable attributes into the sell?

1. Talk softly ? Consumers have never been more wary of overpromising. Even worse, sustainability is a motherhood issue ? overpromise / underdeliver, and you?ll create a very nasty, very public reaction.
2. Back the claims ? Standardized claims backed by real meaures are still a work in progress. But chances are, there?s an industry group working on the problem in your sector. Do a little homework to see how your claims measure up before you plaster them on your packaging.
3. Don?t try to cheat ? There is no shortage of greenwash-busting in the media. I was just asked to weigh in on a show exposing offenders, and was surprised at the extent of cheating in claims.? If it sounds good, but has no substantiation, don?t do it. The PR nightmare isn?t worth it.

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Marc Stoiber is a creative director, entrepreneur, green brand specialist and writer. He works with clients to build resilient, futureproof brands. Marc's leadership positions have included VP of Green Innovation at Maddock Douglas, President and Founder of Change Advertising, National Creative Director of Grey Canada and Creative Director of DDB Toronto. He has helped two ad agencies rise ...

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