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Blogs: Sustainability

Sun, Jun. 18, 2006
Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability
Posted by the Inkslinger

An Elephant in the Room: Jeffrey's Ethical Corp. Conference Keynote Address

Here are Jeffrey's notes for his keynote address at the Ethical Corporation conference in Philadelphia on June 14, 2006: I find myself in a challenging situation! Many people have asked me not to be here today because a representative from cigarette manufacturer Phillip Morris, a cigarette...
Mon, May. 22, 2006
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

What Does the Future Look Like?

Friday we convened a group of leading Vermont businesses, NGO’s, and politicians to explore new visions and possibilities for accelerating the process of creating a more sustainable future for our state. We talked a bit about the Earth Charter and about connecting our work in some way to the...
Thu, May. 18, 2006
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

The Illusion of Happiness

We, (me included) chase with great and even desperate passion more and more and more stuff. A bigger pay check, a nicer house, a cooler car, new clothes. Now we sort of know better. We know that we can’t have both a sane and sustainable world with all that stuff. What we don’t seem to know, despite...
Fri, May. 12, 2006
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

The Misuse & Abuse of the Word "Sustainable"

Lucas, our guru of consumer insight at Seventh Generation, just came back from the LOHAS conference in California. He reflected that wherever you go people have begun to misuse the word sustainable. That’s both good and bad news. It’s great that it’s in everyone’s mind, but unfortunately most...
Thu, May. 04, 2006
Sustainability
Posted by the Inkslinger

Meanwhile, Back on Earth...

The world spins on and the news stops for no one. Here’s the latest word on reporters not reporting, beasts going bye-bye, happy food, and more… In the Unfair & Utterly Unbalanced Dept… Just in case your brain wasn’t already rattled by a Left Wing Media Conspiracy that, once you stop drinking...