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Blogs: Corporate Responsibility

Barnes Students Visit Seventh Generation for a Lesson in Sustainability

What happens when sixty 4th and 5th graders descend on our offices?  A whole lot of fun, combined with a whole lot of learning!  Students from Mrs. Gordon's, Mrs. Smith's and Mr. Fitzsimmons' classes at the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School in Burlington visited...

Seventh Generation Joins Growing Movement to Oppose Expansion of Tar Sands

At Seventh Generation, we have always sought to bring to market the most effective, natural, and sustainable household and personal care products.  Since the beginning, we have focused on designing products from plants, not petroleum.  We have worked hard to reduce, not just the...

Seventh Generation's Response to Silent Spring Institute

Our Products Are Safe Seventh Generation does not formulate products with any of the asthma-associated or endocrine disrupting substances identified by the Silent Spring Institute in their recent study.  Nor do we use ingredients that might reasonably contain trace levels of these substances...

Empowerment through Entrepreneurship: Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Prosperity Campaign

Each year, Whole Planet Foundation changes the lives of hundreds of thousands by helping to alleviate poverty in the communities that supply Whole Foods Market stores with products. This year's Prosperity Campaign seeks to empower 180,000 people with microcredit loans and the chance to change...

Why We Speak for the Trees

At Seventh Generation, providing consumers with better paper products has been a core part of our business for almost 25 years. This commitment comes from a deeply held belief that precious, old-growth forests should never be cut down and turned into products we use to blow our noses or wipe spills...