{"id":3526,"date":"2015-02-19T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T02:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/19\/perhaps-not-as-green-as-it-seems\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:20:55","slug":"perhaps-not-as-green-as-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/perhaps-not-as-green-as-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps not as &#8220;green&#8221; as it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/janine-stratton-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16543 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/janine-stratton-small.jpg\" alt=\"janine-stratton-small\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/248;\" \/><\/a>When you buy food or paper towels at the grocery store, do you see a \u201crecycled\u201d or \u201call-natural\u201d label on it? According to Furman business professor Jeanine Stratton, the label might not always mean a product is \u201cgreen.\u201d Stratton, who specializes in human and consumer behavior, visited Florida State University Panama City recently to talk about \u201cgreenwashing,\u201d which can be defined as the \u201cact of misleading consumers on the environmental impact\u201d of a product. Her lecture kicked off a two-day conference for the college\u2019s Applied Behavior Analysis program, and her talk was covered by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsherald.com\/news\/business\/speaker-some-products-not-as-green-as-they-seem-1.438406\">Panama City News Herald<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy food or paper towels at the grocery store, do you see a \u201crecycled\u201d or \u201call-natural\u201d label on it? According to Furman business professor Jeanine Stratton, the label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}