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Blogs: Sustainability

Fri, Feb. 08, 2008
Posted by the Inkslinger

Of Cabbages and Kings…

Continuing to wade through the accumulated digital clippings here at my perch in the Vermont clouds, where a foot and a half of snow over the last two days has made the task a bit easier by slowing life down considerably. So let’s continue with some more recent dispatches that have caught my eyes...
Fri, Feb. 08, 2008
Posted by the Inkslinger
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Bye-Bye Biofuels?

Biofuels took a big hit yesterday with the release of two studies that clearly show they release more CO2 than conventional fuels once their entire life-cycle is taken into account. Previously, the line on biofuels was that they were carbon neutral because the carbon they released when burned was...
Wed, Jan. 30, 2008
Sustainability
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

What is the Story of Stuff?

We’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth saying again: The Story of Stuff is a film you’ve got to see. It’s one of the clearest, most accessible and fun-to-watch educational videos I’ve seen in a long time. Annie Leonard takes us on a guided tour of how stuff gets made from the story of the...
Fri, Dec. 28, 2007
Posted by White Rhino

MIPs WITH TIM GREINER

This year 7th Gen's Corporate Consciousness department (quasi-department) worked with Tim Greiner from Pure Strategies on a traceability study. The drill was to track the flow of materials for each of our products from one manufacturing partner to the next in the chain of production and enable us...
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...