Blog posts by Jeffrey Hollender,
featuring posts about sustainability,
social responsibility, entrepreneurship,
and more.
Recent Posts
Oil Industry Ponders Future of Energy
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Last week I was in Houston to attend an intimate gathering of about 50 people to participate in The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth...
Glum Harvard Alum
In October of 2011, the Harvard Business School cajoled nearly 10,000 of its 78,000 alumni to complete a questionnaire that was published on January 18, 2012. The result? Harvard alum are clearly glum. In fact, 71% of the Harvard graduates who are in business expect...
Cabot Cooperative Celebrates Volunteers With New App
Guest blog post by Candace Karu, Lifestyle Commentator and Favorite Foodie at Cabot Creamery The founding of Cabot Creamery in a small town in Vermont in 1919 was based on the spirit of cooperation, staking a claim in the fundamental idea that together they could be...
Beyond Earth Day: 5 Ways to Buy Less & Do More
When spring comes along, it's easy to think "out with the old, in with the new." My philosophy has always been to reuse, recycle, and reclaim before buying new stuff. It's the proliferation of new stuff that has affected our environment so detrimentally. One need only...
Soccer Balls with a Mission to Change the World
Guest Blog Post by Santiago Halty, Founder of SENDA ATHLETICS, Berkeley, CA How it all got started Soccer is king in Argentina, where I grew up. As a kid, there wasn't a time when I didn’t want to play. But soccer, for me, was more than a game. It was a way to spend...
2.3 Million Jobs Counted in Green Goods & Services
In 2010, 2.3 million jobs in the United States were associated with the production of green goods and services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its just released report on “EMPLOYMENT IN GREEN GOODS AND SERVICES – 2010.” What defines Green Goods and...
How Does GE Bring “Good Things to Life?”
The answer: By avoiding tax payments and cutting its US workforce! No corporation has surpassed General Electric’s mastery of profit-maximization, or its use of public-relations ("corporate propaganda") to mask its true aims behind the widely-supported goals of...
Sustainable Banks Outperform World’s Largest Banks By 51%
Powerful news: A recent study proves that sustainable banks deliver higher financial returns than some of the world’s largest financial institutions. A study commissioned by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), compared the performance of 17 values-based...
Social Entrepreneurs in Action: Launching the Black Revolution
Guest Blog Post by Jason Aramburu, founder of re:char, based in Western Kenya Earth’s population is growing exponentially towards 9 billion people by 2050. While our carbon emissions increase daily, our ability to grow our own food does not. The FAO estimates that 925...
Goldman Sachs Employees Unionize
Out of the The New York Times unfolds a story that once again highlights the absence of morality and fair play that has come to represent the company we know as Goldman Sachs. Goldman’s own employee’s in Japan workers are unionizing. In the wake of 200,000 financial...
We Are Making a Difference, By The Numbers
Over the course of the past decade, the movements focused on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social innovation, cause-related marketing, micro-lending, buy-local, Fair Trade, impact investing and social entrepreneurship have grown at an astounding...
Need Help Making the Right Choice? GoodGuide is the Answer
GoodGuide’s staff of 25—including chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists, lifecycle-assessment experts, computer scientists, and business and marketing experts—have rated more than 120,000 food, personal-care, and household-chemical products, as well as...
America the Possible?
Guess which country I’m describing? This country has: • the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children; • the greatest inequality of incomes; • the lowest social mobility; • the lowest score on the UN’s index of “material well-being of children”; • the...
Social Entrepreneurs in Action: Co-President of Table for Two USA
Guest Blog Post by Fumi Tosu, Co-President, TABLE FOR TWO USA, New York, NY The global population is projected to surpass 9 billion by the middle of the century. Combined with rising incomes, the world will face unprecedented constraints on basic resources such as...
Achieving Impact: Social Entrepreneurship & Responsible Business
Achieving Impact: Responsible Business & Social Entrepreneurship View more presentations from jeffhollender. Notes from the presentation: Slide 1: Social Entrepreneurship and Responsible Business Social entrepreneurship and responsible business will only succeed...
Reinventing Fire: A Solution to “Peak Everything”
This blog post was originally posted on the Seventh Generation "7Gen Blog" by "Inkslinger" on February 20, 2012. We've all heard about peak oil – when petroleum production hits its all-time high and then declines forever after. It's a fact that supply experts...
Why We Need a Resource Revolution
“…without a step change in resource productivity and a technology-enhanced expansion of supply, the world could be entering an era of high and volatile resource prices. Nothing less than a resource revolution is needed.” –McKinsey Quarterly. Think about it: From 1980...
The Pain of Avoiding Prevention
What affects 90% of Americans and costs our economy $31 billion annually? Headaches. Headache disorders cause more than 1% of all disability and 9% of all lost labor in the US every year. Headache disorders are the most prevalent neurological disorders, affecting more...
It’s a Fact: Equitable Worker Pay Boosts Business Performance
“The combination of group incentive pay with policies that empower employees and create a positive workplace culture reduces voluntary turnover and increases employee intent to stay and raises return on equity.” National Bureau of Economic Statistics Working Paper No....
What I’m Reading: We’re More Unequal Than You Think
Andrew Hacker, writing in The New York Times Review of Books, reviews a collection of books on social inequality, including one of my all time favorites, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. His review...
Not Good Enough: Sustainability in Business Ranks Eighth in Importance
MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group conducted their third survey of managers and executives from companies around the world, asking how companies are developing and implementing sustainable business practices. More than 4,000 managers from 113...