[Design and Technology] Using 'green' appeal

[Tran, Lorraine I]

'Green, after all, has become the new "new and improved," a label so
widely used that many environmental groups, while lauding the heightened
interest of consumers, now dismiss many of the efforts as greenwash.'

To read the At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw? article from the
New York Times  in full go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/business/25depot.html?_r=3D2&pagewanted=3D
1&hp&oref=3Dslogin

 

 

 

Lorraine Tran

Curriculum Manager, P - 12 Design and Technology

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)

41 St Andrews Place

East Melbourne 3002

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

 

Email: tran.lorraine.i at edumail.vic.gov.au

Telephone: (03) 9651 4407

Mobile:       041 933 1630

 

The VCAA provides curriculum and assessment for prep to Year 12. The
VCAA is a statutory body directly responsible to the Minister for
Education and Training and serves government and non-government schools.


 


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