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...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 28, 2009
Thomas Geoghegan, writing in a recent issue of Harper’s Magazine, puts forth a theory that at first glance seems almost too silly to voice, let alone take seriously. He argues that it was not derivatives, hedge funds, gambling insurance companies, or excessively...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 26, 2009
As the financial crisis continues to unfold, headlines increasingly focus on the pain and hardship ordinary Americans are suffering. Let us not forget that the wealth accumulated by a small handful of Americans, often at the expense of others, was obscene and remains...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 22, 2009
The MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT, SPRING 2009 Review asked more than 75 global leaders and sustainability thinkers the question, “What will organizations need to be good at in order to thrive in the emerging sustainability economy?” This is the beginning of a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 6, 2009
I recently finished reading a remarkable book by Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. It makes an unusually tough-minded assertion: I am immoral. I already know that in a world where so few have so much and so many have so little,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 19, 2009
Our financial system is beset by a whole host of chronic illnesses, chief among them: gluttony, amorality, and opacity. Band-aids won’t mend it; the patient requires immediate surgery. Unfortunately, we can’t apply the scalpel until we X-ray these ailing...
