by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 23, 2009
It’s easy to think of pollution as a problem we all share. Bad air, dirty water, chemical contamination, and other challenges spread themselves out roughly equally. Or so we think. The truth is more complicated: some places are more polluted than others, and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 5, 2009
A Conversation About Creating a Regenerative Economy Last week my good friend Otto Scharmer (co-author of Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society and author of Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges) invited me to participate...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 8, 2009
Over the past two weeks, I have met with some remarkable men. I had dinner with Vice President Al Gore, who was in New York to complete work on a new book about global climate change due out in November. We ate at Blue Hill in the Village where Chef Dan Barber...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 24, 2009
Sometimes you think you have something important to say, and before you know whether you can convince anyone in the publishing community that it’s of value, you decide that you’re going to go ahead and write it anyway. That’s how I felt two years ago...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 6, 2009
Creating a Game Plan for the Transition to a Sustainable US Economy Over the last 20 years, we’ve had a lot of interesting weeks here at the company, but this week promises to be the most fascinating yet. Seventh Generation is hosting a landmark three-day summit...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 2, 2009
Joel Makower and Daniel Goleman‘s debate in Joel’s recent column on the likely effect of how “unfettered information about the environmental impacts of our world (will) smoke out the bad guys and help the good guys win,” is a wonderful and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 11, 2009
I am at the 2nd Summit on the Future of the Corporation in Boston where I have been asked to speak about “Building sustainability from within: harnessing capital to drive long-term horizons.” Here’s what’s on my mind… Seventh Generation has...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 11, 2009
On June 4th I gave a keynote address to the Vermont-New Hampshire Marketing Group. As is often the case, I never made it through my whole talk. In fact I only covered six of my 26 pages of notes. (Not that I should have ever had so many pages for an hour and fifteen...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 8, 2009
For several years I have wanted to install a wind turbine to mitigate my impact on global warming even more. For the past 18 months, I waited patiently for our local alternative energy company, Earth Turbines, to ready their product for market. Faced with ongoing...
