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Seventh Generation Corporate Consciousness Report Honored With Ceres Award
| Source: Seventh Generation
BURLINGTON, VT--(Marketwire - April 17, 2009) - Pioneering corporate responsibility organization Ceres announced today
that Seventh Generation, the country's top brand of non-toxic,
environmentally safe consumer products, has been awarded its 2009 Award for
Best Small to Medium-Sized Enterprise Sustainability Report.
The honor is part of the 2009 Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Best
Sustainability Reporting. Now in their eighth year, the awards recognize
best practices in corporate social and environmental reporting and are
designed to highlight those reports that provide leadership by example to
organizations considering publishing reports of their own. The winning
reports exemplify the values of full transparency and honest disclosure of
the full costs of a company's social and environmental impacts.
Published in 2008, Seventh Generation's award-winning Corporate
Consciousness Report details the company's quest to create a new business
model that moves beyond mere sustainability and into a regenerative state
in which its practices and products work to restore environmental and
social systems. The report offers an insightful update on that work and
reflects on the many complexities the firm has faced as it confronts the
challenges of engineering meaningful change on a broad scale.
Ceres also recognized Seventh Generation's innovative communications, which
connect its customers and other stakeholders to its reporting efforts via
an internet "e-book" that uses video, blogging, and links to the company's
website that together serve to involve the public in its visionary work.
"We're obviously extremely honored by the Ceres award," said Seventh
Generation President and Chief Inspired Protagonist Jeffrey Hollender. "We
invested a lot of ourselves in our report, and it's very rewarding to have
that work recognized. More importantly, the award draws attention to what I
see as the business community's most important task, which is to move
beyond a standard that says we will do less or negligible harm and into a
world in which the activities of every business serve to actually enhance
the living systems it depends on. That's the message we ultimately want our
report to send."
About Seventh Generation
Seventh Generation is committed to being the most trusted brand of
household and personal-care products for your living home. Our products are
healthy and safe for the air, the surfaces, the fabrics, the pets, and the
people within your home -- and for the community and environment outside of
it. Seventh Generation also offers products for baby that are safe for your
children and the planet.
For information on Seventh Generation cleaning, paper, baby and feminine
personal care products, to find store locations, and explore the company's
website visit www.seventhgeneration.com. To read more about Seventh
Generation's corporate responsibility visit the Corporate Consciousness
Report at: www.seventhgeneration.com/corporate-responsibility/2007.