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Für eine neue Studie wurden die Klagen gegen climate washing, also gegen falsche Angaben von Unternehmen und Organisationen über die von ihnen verursachten Emissionen, erfasst. Global haben diese Prozesse in den letzten Jahren enorm zugenommen, wobei die Zahl der Prozesse etwa zum Ende der Amtszeit von Donald Trump in den USA am schnellsten wuchs. Die Verurteilungen, zu denen es bereits gekommen ist, führen aufgrund der mit ihnen verbundenen Kosten zu Veränderungen bei den Unternehmen.

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Konik cites Raccoon Nation on PBS which indicates that a racoon's most heightened sense is it's sense of touch, a sense which is increased when the hands are wet or under water.

Is this tied into the popular stories of raccoons which presumably like to "wash their food?" Is it really their sense of touch and affordances which come from that that presses this impression?

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Matt Butler on Twitter: “The public’s verdict on SARS-CoV2, the virus causing Covid-19, and the importance this has in Hospitals. Firstly the majority of frontline staff and public surveyed agree #COVIDisAirborne. Yes echo chamber and all but this is the best I have till a big hitter does similar. /1 https://t.co/Yzg9y4NWSM” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2021, from https://twitter.com/mjb302/status/1441580000508092416

On Questions of COVID Mitigation Methods, South Dakotans are Sharply Polarized. (n.d.). South Dakota State University. Retrieved 8 October 2021, from https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2021/09/questions-covid-mitigation-methods-south-dakotans-are-sharply-polarized

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Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻 on Twitter: “There’s no randomised trial evidence for social distancing, hand washing or even testing & contact tracing on #COVID19 so why is it being demanded for masks? I’m for it in all enclosed public spaces (if you can). We need to smile a tiny bit wider though so it shows from our eyes. https://t.co/3J3FToWeud” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved July 16, 2020, from https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1281961332963770368

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This part makes it sound even more like Open Washing. Apereo is a legitimate foundation for Open Source development and Blackboard entities entering by a side-door would be a dubious process. But we probably should be careful as to what this means for Apereo itself.

Giving structure to an existing initiative.

During MoodleMoot, the notion that one organisation could “own” different institutional members of the Moodle Association was brushed away. But it sounds like a distinct possibility. Maybe not Blackboard but, say, a publishing house or an EdTech vendor…