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Tue, Oct. 25, 2011

Petroleum Use & Canadian Tar Sands

As most of you know, Seventh Generation cares deeply about the environment.  Since our founding in 1988, we have expressed our belief that business is one of the most powerful instruments for meaningful change on our planet. That's why we Read
Thu, Oct. 20, 2011

Issue Advocacy

Climate Change With concern for the next seven generations as our guiding principle, we feel a strong sense of urgency about the issue of climate change. As reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the focus of much of our environmental work, we Read
Thu, Oct. 20, 2011

Environmental Commitment

at Home and Work It is hard to spend more than a few minutes in our Burlington, Vermont headquarters without sensing the environmental commitment of our motivated employees — many of whom have chosen to work at Seventh Generation because Read
Thu, Oct. 20, 2011

Greenhouse Gas Accounting

As we are guided by our commitment to consider the impacts of our actions on the next seven generations, the prospect of global climate change troubles us deeply. While reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is the focus of many of our Read
Mon, Oct. 17, 2011

Transport Logistics

Decentralized system keeps emissions down As our orders continue to grow, our nimble logistics team has to do some fast-stepping to keep pace with our goals to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) associated with transporting our products, Read
Mon, Oct. 17, 2011

Reducing Virgin Plastic Use

Virgin plastics derived from fossil fuels are non-renewable, enviromentally damaging and unsustainable. With only about 30% of recyclable plastic actually getting recycled, most plastic ends up in landfills where it takes hundreds of years to Read
Mon, Oct. 17, 2011

Materials

Great products begin with great materials. Much of our innovation work and many of our goals reflect our desire to continually improve the sustainability of the materials we use. To verify that we are progressing toward our goals to increase the Read
Mon, Oct. 10, 2011

Packaging

A product’s packaging speaks volumes about the company selling it. We have always wanted consumers to notice our belief in ingredient disclosure when they pick up one of our products, but we want them to notice something else as well Read
Mon, Oct. 10, 2011

Environment

Our commitment to consider the impact of our actions on the next seven generations demands that we engage in pioneering work to minimize our impact on the environment — not only in our products, packaging, and business operations — but Read
Fri, Oct. 07, 2011

Sustainability Goals

John Steinbeck opined that, “it is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” If we are to achieve the great changes that are necessary to protect our planet home, we must set bold challenges for ourselves Read
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