{"id":5482,"date":"2015-02-01T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:27:46","slug":"greenwash-capital-moves-into-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5482","title":{"rendered":"Greenwash Capital moves to non-existent website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new move Bristol City Council has started advertising websites for non-existent domains as part of its tenure as European Green Capital 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m indebted to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redveee\">Redvee<\/a> for the photograph below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/solarpark.jpeg\" alt=\"sign for a non-existent solar park and website\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/solarpark.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/solarpark-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only does the solar park itself not exist, neither does the domain shown on the sign, as a simple <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whois\">whois<\/a> search reveals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/whois.png\" alt=\"whois search for lawrencewestonroadsolarpark.co.uk\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/whois.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/02\/whois-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much money has been wasted on the publicity for a non-existent solar park and its accompanying (and equally non-existent) website.<\/p>\n<p>Would anyone from Bristol City Council care to comment?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update 02\/02\/2015:<\/strong><\/em> a subsequent whois search today revealed that the domain in question was registered by a PR person working for Bristol City Council this morning and that the registrant contact details are currently awaiting validation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new move Bristol City Council has started advertising websites for non-existent domains as part of its tenure as European Green Capital 2015. I&#8217;m indebted to Redvee for the photograph below. Not only does the solar park itself not exist, neither does the domain shown on the sign, as a simple whois search reveals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,9],"tags":[40,10,37,23],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-bristol","tag-facepalm","tag-greenwashing","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}