It’s not often that a company that markets itself as “green” openly admits that some of its products are not being produced in a sustainable way. But that’s just what refreshingly honest Seventh Generation is doing — and it’s actively looking for solutions to the problem.
The issue is that as many as 50 percent of the cleaning products on your store’s shelf contain palm oil, and large tracts of the world’s rainforests are being slashed to make way for new palm plantations. That destruction not only threatens wildlife through habitat loss, it also exacerbates climate change, since rainforests suck up carbon dioxide.
So what’s to be done? That’s what Seventh Generation hopes to answer
during a free webcast on September 24 at 7 p.m. (EST). A panel moderated by environmental journalist
Simran Sethi will discuss how consumers and businesses can get involved and help protect rainforests.
The panel: Michael Besancon, Senior Global Vice President of
Whole Foods Market Jeffrey Hollender, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Seventh Generation
Leila Salazar-Lopez, Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign Director of
Rainforest Action Network Matilda Pilacapio, a land owner in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea and a Papuan human-rights activist
--Kyle Boelte
The issue is that as many as 50 percent of the cleaning products on your store’s shelf contain palm oil, and large tracts of the world’s rainforests are being slashed to make way for new palm plantations. That destruction not only threatens wildlife through habitat loss, it also exacerbates climate change, since rainforests suck up carbon dioxide.
So what’s to be done? That’s what Seventh Generation hopes to answer during a free webcast on September 24 at 7 p.m. (EST). A panel moderated by environmental journalist Simran Sethi will discuss how consumers and businesses can get involved and help protect rainforests. The panel:Michael Besancon, Senior Global Vice President of Whole Foods Market
Jeffrey Hollender, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Seventh Generation
Leila Salazar-Lopez, Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign Director of Rainforest Action Network
Matilda Pilacapio, a land owner in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea and a Papuan human-rights activist
--Kyle Boelte