7gen Bloc

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. ...

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!) ...