I’m glad you mentioned that. Wouldn’t it be twisted if Michael Schott the ex-Snapple CEO was on a renegade mission to subvert the organization from the inside?

When I was 12 and my dad pointed out to me that I had the same name as the Snapple guy, I wrote him a letter pointing to this fact. He had his secretary send me an XL Snapple shirt. Needless to say, I was let down. Is he really still there?

As for my writing- why don’t you ask me yourself what I write? Anyways, I’m a person. Talk to Jessica if you want my contact.

-The Real Michael Schott

It hasn’t gone back up and I plan to keep it that way until they decide to actually promote healthy, wholesome ideas and items for families and children.

Also.. I still have yet to accept any free item that I’ve been offered to try and review. It’s all been complete and utter crapola. Now.. if Happy Baby or anything from Dr. Sears or Ergo or any ecologically responsible company comes to me, I will consider accepting a free item to review. Until then? I’d much rather have no income from my blog than have it be a billboard for crap I don’t believe in.

Here’s my take on Blogher swag/consumerism:

http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2009/07/blogher-09-and-story-of-stuff.html

Beth

To address the issue of the recycling bins — the Green Team was told that the Sheraton has back-end recycling and that all garbage is sorted before it goes to landfill or recycling center. The Pepsi recycling bins were simply Pepsi’s way of shaping attendee perceptions that recycling was taking place. On one hand, they have a point. We do want attendees to realize that recycling is important to the Blogher organizers and Green Team. On the other hand, could we not have posted signs on the garbage bins letting women know that?

The members of the green team worked hard and had a phone conference with Pepsi to urge the company not to bring bottled water. We didn’t realize the hotel would end up providing plastic cups at each of the water stations. And we’re not thrilled that Pepsi brought its flavored waters and Frito snack crap.

That said, our efforts seem like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic compared to the rampant commercialism of the conference which I’ll be writing about today at http://www.fakeplasticfish.com.

Mainly I want to know why so many of us, with such power, don’t know who we are and don’t use our power to make a better world instead of whoring for companies like Pepsi and Walmart & P&G.

Why?

I think the questions he raised about recycling need to be answered by the hotel and by Pepsi. As Jennifer mentioned, we were told that there was back-end recycling. But if that’s the case, why did Pepsi expend all that carbon and natural resources to ship the recycling containers? Were they really needed? All of this needs to be answered by BlogHer, the Sheraton, and Pepsi. I’ve reached out to BlogHer and Pepsi to try to get answers, hopefully they’ll respond here or elsewhere.

And I agree with Diane – we need to seriously retool the conference. The atmosphere did not match the spirit of the keynotes and the basic message of blogging and women’s empowerment.

Lynn