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Thanks, afew, for this diary.
But browsing the website of the "Fondation Nicolas Hulot" gave me some shivers.
I was wondering where he gets the money for his campaign, must be huge...
And then seeing some of his sponsers are institutions and large business of the establishment....I donno....

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Wed Jan 3rd, 2007 at 01:23:59 PM EST
I dunno either. I tried not to give the impression in this diary I was a convinced Hulotist (?). He's a businessman as well as an activist. He runs a foundation that sells (or a subsidiary does, I'm not sure), "Ushuaïa" products (shampoo and stuff) that are supposed to be environmentally sound. And there's the question I barely touched on, that, in running this campaign, he's greatly raising his personal profile and increasing his popularity as a media figure. So right... I dunno!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 3rd, 2007 at 02:45:39 PM EST
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He does not own the Ushuaïa brand, his TV channel TF1 does. And the products aren't that environmentally sound anyway.

Worse is that his show used to be sponsorised by Rhône Poulenc, one of France's worst polluters...

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Jan 3rd, 2007 at 02:57:23 PM EST
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I didn't know the brand belonged to TF1, thanks for the info. Yes, I do remember Rhöne-Poulenc sponsorship screens before the show at one time...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 3rd, 2007 at 03:15:11 PM EST
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