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Seventh Generation Founder Jeffrey Hollender has told friends that his ouster came as a surprise. It evidently followed months of tension with his board and  with Chuck Maniscalco, the former senior exec at PepsiCo who was brought on as CEO of Seventh Generation in June 2009. Read More

The third and latest Sins of Greenwashing report may be as much of a greenwash as the products and companies it is criticizing. Read More

How do 26 companies score on their efforts to replace bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical linked to numerous reproductive and development problems, from metal can liners? Read More

 Odwalla, the juice-making Coca-Cola subsidiary, will switch the packaging for all of its single-serve drinks to bottles made almost entirely of plant-based plastic by next March. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} Read More

As carbon becomes an ever-bigger liability on the corporate balance sheet, carbon and energy management software is poised to be the newest addition to the list of mission-critical enterprise software systems. Read More

Leading up to the GreenBiz Innovation Forum, John Warner, founder of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and one of the fathers of green chemistry, talks about how green chemistry syncs up with innovation within companies.   Read More

This first-ever report surveyed more than 500 sustainability professionals about their job responsibilities, salaries, and overall job satisfaction. Read More

 Stonyfield Farm is switching its yogurt multi-packs to corn-based bioplastic and will fund the growth of enough non-GMO corn to equal the amount used in its new packaging. Read More

 Coca-Cola shares the lessons it's learned as it developed and brought to market a plastic drink bottle that's 1/3 plant-based. Read More

A new report uses data from Trucost to find that the cost of environmental damage equaled 11 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and was 20 percent larger than pension fund losses from the financial crisis. Read More