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Blogs: Corporate Responsibility

Mon, Dec. 10, 2007
Posted by White Rhino

Daron Byerly on our (7th Generation's) Manufacturing Partners

Two years ago a host of people at SVG from Quality Assurance to HR to CC got together with Daron to begin the process of developing The Manufacturing Partner Annual Report, a tool that would evaluate our manufacturing partners at many different levels of their operations. The team developed the...
Wed, Dec. 05, 2007
Posted by the Inkslinger
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Diaper Daze

Here’s a question few of us ever have to face: what do you do with a quarter million diapers that work fine but can’t be sold? Give yourself a gold star if you answered “give ‘em away to people who can use them.” That’s what we did yesterday. We had all these second-quality diapers that were...
Tue, Dec. 04, 2007
Posted by the Inkslinger

Winning One for the World

We’ve known it was coming for awhile but today it’s official so we can finally share the good news: Seventh Generation has won a 2008 Fast Company Social Capitalist Award. Sponsored by Fast Company Magazine and the Monitor Group, the awards honor those leading businesses and non-profit...
Tue, Nov. 20, 2007
Posted by the Inkslinger

Find the Founder

We’re heading down into Thanksgiving here. Folks are departing for distant shores and points well known. There’s a quiet descending upon the scene and a calm that doesn’t come often enough if you ask me. It’s a good time to tie up loose ends, one of which is this round-up of Jeffrey’s recent media...
Mon, Nov. 12, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Big Green Myth

I was extremely disappointed to read Ben Elgin’s cover story in the October 29th issue of BusinessWeek magazine. The article, “Little Green Lies,” wrongly suggests that profits and environmental initiatives don’t mix and that companies cannot hope to be both successful and sustainable. This myth...