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Topic: Sustainability

The US and UK Take on Food Waste

The UK has reduced food waste by 18%. Can we do it here? Reprinted with permission from SustainableAmerica.org Earlier this month, the USDA and EPA jointly launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, an effort to enlist all players in the food system — producer groups, processors,...

More People Want Sustainable Seafood, But How to Choose?

Bluefin tuna might be a delicious addition to your sushi platter, but the poor, overfished bluefin is not the best choice when it comes to sustainability. Luckily, more and more people are becoming attuned to the importance of sustainable seafood: A new NPR-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll of 3,...

Most People Favor Stricter Air Pollution Standards from the EPA

Although climate change is often politicized, a new poll from the American Lung Association shows that clean air is important to everyone, regardless of what side of the aisle they stand on.   The bipartisan poll of 800 registered voters shows that most people—across gender, racial,...

Newsflash: The Tide is Turning!

There's huge news from the nation's cleaning product cupboard: Procter & Gamble, one of the biggest cleaner companies on the block, is reformulating Tide and Tide Free & Gentle laundry detergents so they contain much less of a troubling toxin called 1,4-dioxane. This is a happy...

Baby Tender Bottoms with New Thicker & Softer Free & Clear Baby Wipes

If you've ever dealt with one of those "uh-oh" messes, you'll know why parents everywhere are loving our new and improved Free & Clear Baby Wipes. Larger, softer and more moist than our old wipes, our new Free & Clear Baby Wipes combine gentle, cloth-like performance with...
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Seventh Generation Palm Oil

In the last decade, palm oil has come into high demand as a raw material for consumer products. Unfortunately, the increased demand has proven damaging to the environment, particularly to tropical rainforests where most of the palm oil is sourced.   The destruction of the rainforest in...
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Seventh Generation and the Sustainability Academy

As a part of Seventh Generation's Corporate Consciousness efforts and with a mission toward educating the next generation of sustainability leaders, the company has partnered with the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes in Burlington, Vermont.   The Academy is an elementary school (...
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Is Toxic Product Reformulation Possible?

Seventh Generation CEO John Replogle and CEO of The Breast Cancer Fund discuss reformulating toxic household and personal care products with healthier ingredients and holding companies to high but executable standards to ensure their consumers' health and wellbeing at a recent Seventh...
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Deepak Chopra on Making a Change NOW

Deepak Chopra says we are in a state of emergency, during a Seventh Generation panel concerning toxins.  We need to make a change now to rid our bodies, homes and environment of toxic ingredients.
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Deepak Chopra: Wellbeing is the #1 World Trend

"If you take care of your wellbeing, you take care of the wellbeing of the world," proclaims Deepak Chopra in this video clip from a recent Seventh Generation Livestream event on toxic ingredients.