7gen Bloc

I soon head off for 11 days to Colorado's celestial Sangre de Cristo Mountains on a sacred passage retreat. ...

"All that money that you're losing, it's going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it's going." – recent Rolling Stone article You’ve probably seen some of the stories that covered news of Goldman Sach’s obscene quarterly profit report. ...

On July 3, the Washington Post published an article under the headline "Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned." The story highlighted a long litany of issues and problems that would cause one to wonder why anyone should pay extra for certified organic products. ...

It was truly an honor and a privilege to have so many amazing, bright, and dedicated people join us at Seventh Generation to spend the last three days working "to develop a detailed and pragmatic game plan for how to transition to a sustainable US economy and society." The results of our conversation will take a little time to distill and disseminate and will be published in a special January 2010 issue of Solutions maga ...

In between recent preparations for our just-completed sustainability summit, I found out that PepsiCo has joined Ceres -- not the juice brand but the coalition of non-profit groups, investors, and corporations that are working together on sustainability issues. This is pretty big news if for no other reason that the fact that the company itself is huge. ...

Our Game Plan Summit meeting of leading sustainability thinkers has begun. It's absolutely remarkable to have all these extraordinary people in one place working together. The brain power in the room is palpable, and it's a very hopeful thing to see it so focused on things that matter so much. To open the summit, I spoke for a few minutes about the challenges ahead. Here's what I said: ...

Over the last 20 years, we've had a lot of interesting weeks here at the company, but this week promises to be the most fascinating yet. Seventh Generation is hosting a landmark three-day summit of some of the country's top sustainability experts in Burlington. ...

Joel Makower and Daniel Goleman's debate in Joel's recent column on the likely effect of how "unfettered information about the environmental impacts of our world (will) smoke out the bad guys and help the good guys win," is a wonderful and critically important dialogue. ...

After three years of service I was not reelected to the Greenpeace Board of Directors for another term. This is the wisdom of Greenpeace's 70 odd "voting members." Voting members include former staff, current staff, and others friends of the organization. I will never know where they perceived me to fall short; that dialogue is not part of the process. ...