I have to say that I viewed Green Shift as a rather generic term so I'm surprised that this controversy over a trademark infringement has come up. I did some Googling and besides my favourite vendor of barbeque supplies, I came up with:
1) Green Shift is a project of ecoPerth with support from Transport
2) GreenShift (greenshift.com) develops and commercializes technologies that facilitate the efficient use of natural resources. We do so today by developing and integrating new clean technologies into existing biofuel production facilities, by selling equipment based on our technologies, and by using our technologies to directly produce and sell biomass-derived oils and fuels.
3) The Green Shift Project: A proposal from the Silicon Valley Institute for Global Sustainability
4)Green Shift: Changing Attitudes in Architecture to the Natural World (Paperback)
by John Farmer (Author), Kenneth Richardson (Editor) "This book is an account of how buildings from the eighteenth century to the present time have reflected the momentous changes
5)Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the production, operation and disposal of computers is to be the aim of a new government taskforce. The public-private "Green Shift" taskforce will be led by Manchester City Council.
6) Michigan students demand green shift from automakers
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| Expertise at Cranfield University could be driving forward the world’s move toward green cars, providing high-end testing capabilities which could attract industry investment to the region. |
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Well, you get the idea. There are lots more instances of the term "green shift" being used in various places so it seems like a generic term to me. I hope they don't spend many resources fighting over it.
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UPDATE: The Book entitled Green Shift was first published in 1996 with a second edition in 1999 (got that from Amazon's web site)
Here is an even earlier reference:
Learning to Listen to the Land by B. Willers and D. Brower. 1991 Island Press, the foreword concludes with, "If existing forms of government can't make that paradigm shift - and they show little promise of being able to - it is time for the Green Shift. And here is its handbook!"
Note that Green Shift is capitalized.
guys, why do we want to give this lady and her company all sorts of publicity by trying to fight over our website with her? just get a different URL. i'm sure we can collectively come up with something just as good.
let's stop stumbling into trouble. this is just like when we let the cat out of the bag about the green shift and let the harper party define it as a tax grab that isn't revenue-neutral.
Hello Rolly,
If it's just the URL that's the problem, then perhaps changing the URL would be the thing to do. That still has problems though because "thegreenshift.ca" has propagated far and wide. It has been suggested in the blogosphere that a contest be held to choose a new name. That's not a bad idea for keeping the issue in the public eye.
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