by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 1, 2007
Imagine 400 CEOs representing Walmart’s largest vendors all sitting in one room pondering the future of sustainability. Aside from representing trillions of dollars in market value, this group could change the course of history. As I observed from the third row of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2007
I just finished reading Paul Hawken’s new book “Blessed Unrest.” It is a beautifully written, extensively researched, deeply thoughtful but in the end-unsatisfying read. While Hawken talks convincing about the conversion of the environmental/sustainability movement...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 1, 2007
New Delhi – Sunday February 18, 2007 One wonders if there is anything to say that has not been said before. This is a city of extreme contrasts drawn together by sights and smells that all can enjoy and none can avoid. A delicate smoke fills the air, coloring the sky...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 2, 2006
Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Milestone Meeting It caught me off guard, even though I should have expected it. Seated in the front row of the Sam Walton auditorium, Lee Scott pacing in front of the room with a cordless microphone, dressed in grays and blacks, mock...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 6, 2006
On July 26th Fortune Magazine released a cover story on Wal-Mart under the banner “Wal-Mart Saves the Planet, well not quite…” Something is going on here that I’m not quite sure we understand. Whether you believe Wal-Mart is the devil incarnate or are a cheerleader...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 3, 2006
I just saw Al Gore’s movie. I know why he named it an inconvenient truth. Because much of what we can and must do is in fact inconvenient. The movie left me deeply saddened and depressed since so much of what I can and must do I have left undone. I have been...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 4, 2006
We, (me included) chase with great and even desperate passion – more and more and more – stuff. A bigger pay check, a nicer house, a cooler car, new clothes……. Now – we sort of know better, we know that we can’t have both a sane and sustainable world with all that...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 3, 2006
Where ever you go – what ever you do – people have begun to misuse the word sustainable! That’s both good and bad news, it’s great that it’s in everyone’s mind, but unfortunately – most people have so little idea of what the word actually means – that they can be of...
