About Us

Working closely with our friends at Rainforest Action Network, we have developed what we believe is an industry leading approach to the palm oil problem. The purpose of our palm oil work is twofold: to ensure that Seventh Generation's palm oil sourcing is certified sustainable as well as fully traceable back to its source, and to help transform the larger palm oil industry through education and activism.

We are focusing our efforts in these four areas:

Supply Chain and Supplier Actions

• In 2009, Seventh Generation became the first company in our industry in North America to purchase sustainable palm kernel oil certification credits to offset use of the ingredient across our entire product line. By purchasing the credits, Seventh Generation is paying a premium to palm kernel oil producers that use more environmentally responsible practices to produce and harvest palm kernel oil. We view this credit purchase, through what is known as a “book and claim” system, as simply the first step in moving toward a dedicated, traceable, and certified sustain palm kernel oil supply for our products.
• We will be transparent in all of our work on palm oil.
• We will publicly disclose our suppliers to encourage transparency among other companies.
• By 2012, we will source 100 percent traceable, sustainable palm oil across all of our products. All of our palm oil will be certified sustainable by the RSPO.
• We support a moratorium on conversion of natural forests to industrial palm oil production.

Advocacy for Global Change

• In order to demonstrate our values and achieve our supply chain goals, we will actively work to improve the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, and enlist others to do the same.
• With deforestation as one of the leading causes of global climate change, we want to ensure that government policy supports the protection of the world’s last remaining rainforests and the rights of the peoples who depend on them. Forests and forest people need safeguards. We will work with Rainforest Action Network and and others to support strong forest provisions in the U.S. climate legislation and policy, and to secure a strong agreement in the U.N. Climate negotiations.

Grassroots Outreach and Mobilization

• Activism is both core to our company’s values and key to achieving the change we seek to make in the world. We will invite Seventh Generation's stakeholders to join us in making the palm oil industry more sustainable, through outreach, eduction, and activism.

Industry Outreach

• Seventh Generation can't change the global palm oil supply chain alone. We will reach out to other companies, both competitors and non-competitors alike, to join us, and our consumers, in ensuring that palm oil production becomes sustainable and ensures a fair and dignified standard of living for those who work in the palm oil industry.