by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 2, 2010
“Exuberance made a comeback this year at Josh Koplewicz’s annual Halloween party. More than 1,000 people packed into a 6,000-square-foot space at the Good Units night club in Manhattan, a substantially larger crowd than in the last several years. The open bar was...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2010
We live in an endlessly interconnected world but every day all too many of us don’t consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations yet alone the next six, five, four, three, two, or even one. Historians will write about ours as the generation...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 18, 2010
In my new book, The Responsibility Revolution, I look at companies that conduct internal business with transparency. Seventh Generation is one of those companies, but a recent experience here made me realize that it is always easier to stand at the doorstep of someone...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 2, 2010
I was giddy with hope back in November 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidential election. Like many, I believed that we stood at the edge of potentially enormous positive change, an opportunity that surely arises only once in a generation. Today, a year later, I am...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 15, 2009
There’s been plenty said about Wall Street’s incredible collapse and the byzantine practices and illusionary (some would say delusionary) financial products that almost brought down our economy. But not enough has been said about the pervasive mindset that...
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 | 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 | 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...
