Uncover the corporate secret in GREENWASH — the social deduction game of environmental deception. Somebody at this table is lying about their carbon footprint. Find them before the planet pays the price.
Every player gets a secret identity. Policies get passed, players get fired, and everyone claims they're the good guy. The core tension: can the Environmentalists expose the impostors before the Greenwashers rebrand the apocalypse?
Journalists, scientists, auditors, and employees trying to pass genuinely green policy and smoke out the frauds. They have the numbers — but no idea who to trust.
The CEO, PR Executive, and Lobbyist. They know exactly who's on their side, and they're passing deceptive policy while wearing recycled-cotton smiles.
The Shareholder answers to one master: the portfolio. They'll side with whoever's winning — and they'd very much like to be elected, thank you.
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Fire 1–2 players (depends on player count) after the fourth green policy. Blend in as the good guys and pass deceptive policies!
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Trigger a Media Blackout to halt discussion. Work with your team to blend in, protect the CEO, and hide corporate greenwashing!
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No powers. Blend in as the good guys! Pretend to be Journalist, Scientist, or Auditor to secretly push deceptive corporate agendas.
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Eliminate one player after the third policy is passed. Target the CEO to win the game and expose the corporate fraud!
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Investigate a player's secret team twice per game. Uncover the truth and expose the blue team's greenwashing to the public!
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Investigate the discard pile twice per game. Use this secret data to catch the blue team impostors hiding eco-friendly policies!
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No special powers. Vote carefully, discuss openly, and deduce who the blue team impostors are to save the planet!
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Mute one player once. Win by passing greenwash policies or getting elected twice. Prioritize your personal profits over the planet!
Two sharp investigative journalists pull the recycled-cardboard curtain back on real-world greenwashing — one scandal, one balance sheet, and one suspiciously leafy logo at a time.
Fast fashion's favorite adjective, under the microscope.
Every mechanic in GREENWASH is ripped from an actual corporate playbook. Pins on the board, string on the wall — follow the timeline.
Over half of UK consumers are prepared to boycott brands over misleading green claims. Consumers aren't just annoyed — they're organized.
SOURCE: UK CONSUMER RESEARCH ON GREEN CLAIMSVW marketed its diesel cars as a green revolution. The reality: ~11 million vehicles were fitted with defeat devices — software that detected pollution tests and actively cheated on them, then went right back to polluting on the open road.
The scandal, dubbed "Dieselgate," cost VW tens of billions in fines and settlements — and became the textbook case of greenwashing as outright fraud.
BP famously restyled itself as "Beyond Petroleum" — new sunflower logo, same core business of oil and gas, same pollution. A masterclass in worshipping false labels.
Shell, meanwhile, filed fossil-fuel-linked investments under its "Renewables and Energy Solutions" category — masking where the money actually went and misleading investors about its green transition.
Brands like H&M, Zara, and Boohoo lean on vague, feel-good labels like "Conscious" and "eco" — words with no regulated definition and, frequently, no evidence behind them.
It got official: the UK's Competition & Markets Authority opened an investigation into Boohoo's "Ready for the Future" range over exactly this kind of vague green claim.
Italy's competition authority hit Shein with a €1 million fine over misleading environmental claims tied to its "evoluSHEIN" collection — marketing that dressed ultra-fast fashion up as a sustainability story.
The lesson regulators are teaching: a green collection name is not a green supply chain.
GREENWASH grew out of Pluie d'Hiver, an apparel line built on one idea: what harm looks like depends entirely on how it's presented.
The white hoodie features a sword entwined with vibrant flowers — violence made glamorous, consequence conveniently hidden. It embodies the deceptive image so often sold by clothing brands. The black hoodie answers it: branches bleeding, the damage unmistakable.
Founded by Terrence Zhu & Winston Lee, the project became a card game, a podcast, and a classroom — all asking the same question the hoodies do: are you looking at the flowers, or the sword?
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We're Terrence and Winston — students at Victoria Shanghai Academy who turned a question about our own clothing brand into a game, a podcast, and a curriculum. We don't just talk about greenwashing; we've built, tested, and taught every piece of this project ourselves.
A facilitated session that turns greenwashing from an abstract buzzword into something your students have seen, played, argued about — and can now spot in the wild.
An interactive lesson on what greenwashing is, the 7 classic tactics — from Hidden Trade-offs to outright Fibbing — and real case files: H&M's "Conscious" line, Dieselgate, BP's rebrand, and Shein's €1M fine.
We host live rounds of GREENWASH — 5 to 13 players per table, all materials provided. Students experience firsthand how easily "the appearance of sustainability" beats the real thing when nobody checks the evidence.
Guided reflection connecting the table to the real world: how fast did winning override your ethics? Does our economy reward looking green over being green? What can you actually do about it as a consumer?
Bring a GREENWASH workshop to your school, club, or team — and find out who in the room would sell the rainforest for a quarterly bonus.
The White Hoodie
The Black Hoodie