Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green Bandwagon [Hardcover]

"This thought-provoking, well-written analysis shows that there are viable sustainable alternatives, which should be considered as we move to a post recession world."
--Patrick Allen, Director Marketing, The Co-operative Group

"A hugely entertaining analysis that cuts through the rhetoric and offers new insights into the causes and cure for greenwash".

"A provocative, vibrant, panoramic review of the way we live -and shop- today. Hesz and Neophytou pose fundamental questions about the role of fear and guilt in modern consumption and marketing."

'CSR', 'Green', 'Ethics', 'Fair Trade', 'Organic' are all buttons that marketers are keen to push right now to get us to engage us with their products. Why? Because, amongst many, these issues hit a nerve and our consciences can be comforted in the knowledge we are purchasing for the greater good. Guilt Trip talks to the history of the marketing communications story, analyses the journey of traditional advertising techniques past and present and tackles the exploitation of guilt and fear. The authors talk with leading marketers and advertising agency heads, politicians and consumers, doctors and historians to explore the pivotal role played by the Green phenomenon within this transformation. Going further, it asks how companies, politicians and individuals will react to this emerging but irrevocable change, and what will be the fate of those who react too slowly, or ignore it altogether.

Alex Hesz Across several of London's Advertising and Communications agencies, Alex has worked with some of the world's largest brands and businesses, including British Airways, GlaxoSmithKline, RBS, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Diageo, Nokia and the UK Government. In particular, Alex has worked broadly in the areas of sustainability and corporate responsibility, whether reducing the size of cat-food boxes, preventing children from using their phones for bullying or working towards a single, universal charger. He lives in South London, and works at DDB. Bambos Neophytou Since abandoning his academic research program (a hopelessly inadequate attempt to fuse sociolinguistics with cognitive pragmatics), Bambos has worked or consulted for a variety of organisations (Added Value, BBC, BBH, VCCP) in a strategic marketing and communications capacity. Having been unable to finish reading any books on marketing communications, he has always wanted to write one that was readable from beginning to end. He believes this has now been achieved. He currently lives in West Berkshire, is training to be a carpenter and is Head of Planning at Exposure.