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Greening the Trivial
April 21, 2008, 11:09 am
Filed under: Popular Culture | Tags: ,

In yet another example of how sustainability is being co-opted as a marketing strategy, Hasbro announced today that they will be releasing a “green” version of Monopoly, by which they mean they will be giving lip-service to social concerns about the environment, but not committing to change their corporate practices or donate any money from the sales of these games to environmentalist groups.