Seventh Generation Wins Best Sustainability Report Award – Second Year in a Row

by Tim Greiner
05 May 2010

For the second year in a row, Boston-based Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants honored the corporate consciousness report written by Pure Strategies as the best North American report for the small and medium enterprise category. This marks the third time the company has received the prize with Pure Strategies’ help, with honors given this year, last year and in 2007.

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Judges cited the report's The 2008 Corporate Consciousness Report (www.svg2008report.org) look into the company's vision for “Reinventing the Purpose and Possibility of Business” with an in depth discussion of Seventh Generation’s engagement with its manufacturing partners to improve sustainability performance. Judges cited the reports transparent discussion of the increasingly competitive home care industry and the company's disclosure of ingredients on product labels and its advocacy for similar disclosure by others in industry.

 

Written by Tim Greiner

Tim Greiner

Tim Greiner, a Pure Strategies Co-founder and Managing Director, has pioneered approaches to building environmental and social integrity into products, brands, and businesses. He is also a co-founder of the Chemical Footprint Project and has guided sustainable chemicals management strategies for companies across diverse industries. His experience spans the spectrum from developing sustainability strategy, drafting sustainability goals, designing product sustainability programs, creating approaches to transform sustainable supply chains and facilitating a landscape level stakeholder process to improve climate and water quality outcomes.

Tim's recent projects include helping build a leading climate strategy for Ben & Jerry's, developing sustainability goals for King Arthur Baking, creating a corporate sustainability strategy for Lush, and developing a regenerative grazing standard for Timberland.