Higher wages benefit business by increasing consumer purchasing power, reducing costly employee turnover, raising productivity, improving product quality, custo
I once heard George Soros explain or rather rationalize his investment in a company that produces land mines while his charitable organization worked to remove
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 auditoriu
Reflections on Growing to the Seventh Generation Community Sometimes I forget that my job is more about growing my self than growing others. It is – or at lea
Last week the entire Seventh Generation staff headed to Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe Vermont for our annual two day retreat. (The Trapp family is the same one of
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 her
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 d
There was no shortage of complaining about the $147 million that Lee R. Raymond, retiring CEO of Exxon Mobil departed the company with. Exxon shareholders didn
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
About a year and a half ago, I started writing a book about the true nature of business responsibility. It was going to be a book written in response to the cli
