7gen Bloc

Martin Wolf, the Director of Product Consciousness at 7th Gen put on a brief and yet minty mint-party, celebrating the release of our naturally minted toilet bowl cleaner. The scent for the past four years has been from a synthetic source. The video-log tells the rest... WR

Well, the first leg of the journey is complete. I recently purchased a 1983 Mercedes Diesel station Wagon with somewhere over 128,000 miles on it. While the next step is the biofuel conversion, just the change to this car has been pretty significant. When you sit in the driver’s seat you feel as if you’re slipping into an antique arm chair. You sink into the depth of something that someone else has been sitting in for much of their life.

The Blackspot V2's are out and are pretty darn comfortable. Adbusters has done it again...check it out. WR

We are digging through 60 plus hours of video shot for the July Change It program with GreenPeace and we keep running into pieces where students were inspiring - Here is a clip by Dana Artz... WR

Duke (the Chief Trim Tab Officer at Seventh Gen) and I spent 3 days in the SoL Executive Champions Workshop at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. There were 20 exec types from all walks of life delving into the idea of creating (presencing) pragmatic global change...Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer authors of the book Presence led the workshop.

“One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and then to create dreams, visions, and stories that we sense at our center want to happen...” -Synchronicity, The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski

On the road - we visited EchoDitto our blog behind the screeners... they were all moving into another world and we captured a moment of Nicco, forever... W R

Over the past 2 wks my family had the opportunity to host Janyl Ramirez in our home. Janyl is 16 and attends the High School for Environmental Studies in NYC . Janyl spent her days in VT writing and working at Shelburne Farms as a scholorship student for a UVM / Shelburne Farms (Marshall Webb) Environmental Writing course and her nights and weekends with the Murphy family, playing games, meeting friends, discovering what younger brothers and sisters are like, climbing Mt.

Guest post from Bec Cooper... Once there was a man who loved water – oceans, rivers, lakes – he loved them all, and there was a particular pond of water that he loved more than any other. There were beautiful birch trees around it and so many birds, butterflies and dragonflies. He had discovered a secret path leading to this pond, and began stopping nearly every day on his way home from work. He always felt very peaceful, and his mind could quiet in this place after a hectic day at work.

We sent a film crew out to capture our week on the Change It project. We looked for inspired protagonists and found them plenty. I was most impressed with Joseph and his stream of worldly consciousnness... WR