by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 23, 2008
Recently, I spent the afternoon talking with David Suzuki, a man whose brilliance is matched only by his humility. Overlooking the St. Lawrence River in downtown old Montreal, we sat for several hours. David Suzuki is a rock star of the environmental movement in...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 22, 2008
Who wins when multi-national corporations acquire small, natural-products companies? The anecdotal evidence suggests it’s not the entrepreneur. While there are a few potential success stories, such as Groupe Danone’s acquisition of a majority stake in...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 7, 2008
I have often wondered whether a company can truly be evil. Not a company run by evil people, but a place where decades of evil have seeped right into the corporate fabric. Almost ten years ago, at a Business for Social Responsibility conference in Los Angeles, I...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 26, 2008
It had all the makings of a nightmare:
”Seventh Generation Battles Carcinogenic Chemical Controversy”
“Organic” and “Natural” Consumer Products Found Contaminated with Cancer Causing Chemical!” Less than two weeks ago, I...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 10, 2008
On Monday, February 4th we arrived in Monteverde, Costa Rica for a trek through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and the Children’s Eternal Rain Forest. The trip had been organized by Tom Newmark, President of vitamin and supplement maker New Chapter, and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 4, 2008
The Giants beat the New England in the Super Bowl. John McCain is leading the GOP presidential race. Lee Scott and Bill Gates are calling for a more responsible form of capitalism. In ads for Burt’s Bees, Clorox takes the personal care industry to task over...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 28, 2008
The Economists Makes an About Face Last week was an amazing time in the annals of corporate responsibility.
Bill Gates, speaking at Davos, called upon business leaders for a kinder capitalism. “We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 1, 2007
A note to the Seventh Generation community as we enter a new year. The fact that 80 percent of the world’s almond crop comes from one small part of the world, a 600,000-acre series of orchards in California’s Central Valley, is a metaphor for a world where we have...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 2, 2007
Now that’s a little harsh, but Ben Elgin’s Business Week cover story, “Little Green Lies”, uncovered a wealth of interesting information that led to a number of erroneous conclusions resulting from a lack of context and the highly selective use of...
