7gen Bloc

We should pause to momentarily celebrate the fact that as my friend and former Executive Director of Greenpeace John Passacantando said in his blog, Our Next Economy, "Pelosi, Waxman, Markey, Hoyer...pulled off the impossible, they got a majority of the Congress to vote for the climate bill. ...

Last week a business coalition called BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy) and Ceres, a coalition of investors and other public interest organizations working to address sustainability challenges, placed a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling on the President and members of Congress to invest in our nation's economic future by passing legislation to cut carbon pollution and support clean energy...now! ...

I am at the 2nd Summit on the Future of the Corporation in Boston where I have been asked to speak about "Building sustainability from within: harnessing capital to drive long-term horizons." Here's what's on my mind… ...

On June 4th I gave a keynote address to the Vermont-New Hampshire Marketing Group. As is often the case, I never made it through my whole talk. In fact I only covered six of my 26 pages of notes. (Not that I should have ever had so many pages for an hour and fifteen minute talk!) ...

For several years, I have wanted to install a wind turbine to do even more to mitigate my impact on global warming. For the past 18 months, I've waited patiently for our local alternative energy company, Earth Turbines, to ready their product for market. Faced with ongoing delays while they perfect their technology I decided to go instead with a 10 kilowatt Bergey wind turbine. ...

There was no easing into the job. We just ended a 16-hour journey over two days focused on strategic planning. I sat next to my new CEO, Chuck Maniscalco, while he jumped into the multiplicity of challenges and opportunities we face. ...

Today, after 20 years at the helm, I am handing the day-to-day operations of my company over to a new CEO. This begins a new chapter in my story and in the story of Seventh Generation, and I’ve written a post about how I came to the decision to switch to the role of Executive Chairperson and why I think it’s one of the best moves I’ve ever made. ...