by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 22, 2011
Chris Hedges is a unique commentator on the challenges we face. His honesty is exceptional, his writing outstanding, and his perspective insistent. His two most recent books, Death of the Liberal Class and Empire of Illusion painfully brought into focus the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 17, 2011
Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and opportunities that small business faces in a country dominated by the influence of large multinational...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 31, 2011
I landed last week in a somewhat unusual place for someone like me: the annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA) in Denver. While en route to the event, I realized it was the first time that I can remember that I was attending a conference as a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 28, 2011
This is the time of year when all the pundits, journalists, forecasters and owners of crystal globes issues their predictions. Mine are not very rosy! We’ll spend most of our time playing defense. The Republican majority in the House together with Obama and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Innovation Inspired by Nature. Janine Benyus one of sustainability’s most brilliant minds developed the idea of Biomimicry. Biomimicry is the rather simple idea that if we can understand the way in which nature works to acquire and store energy, build bridges and...
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 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 21, 2009
On Monday, December 14th, Arthur Gray passed away. Arthur was a member of the board of directors of Seventh Generation since 1991. Arthur was a humble man, never one to boast or focus on his own accomplishments. Arthur was a man of principle, a man of conviction,...
