This weeks New Yorker Magazine (4/2/07) features a long negative story about Wal-Mart’s effort to “co-opt liberals.” This is another in the series of good
I spent two days this week doing something I haven’t done for five if not ten years – going to a retreat to explore who I want to be in the next iteration o
Yes! Two weeks ago the Financial Times reported some impressive results from the Employee Ownership Index. “In the UK in recent years, the Employee Ownership
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
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
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
The remnants of a hurricane blow through northern New England leaving the sky cloudy and the ground damp. The temperature isn’t quite cool enough for a bath b
“One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and th
My brother Peter would have turned 50 today. There would have been a huge party, around the swimming pool of a rented house near the beach. Loud music, beautifu
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