We have just returned from three days in Anaheim California where we participated in Natural Products Expo West along with over 60,000 attendees and 2,000 exhibitors.

Our feet are sore and we ate tasty samples until we begged for mercy but there is much to celebrate.  Renewal2 had six companies at the show with all generating great interest.

Big news from Renewal2 investee Seventh Generation, the company has teamed up with Oakland-based, Ecologic Brands to roll out a laundry detergent bottle made of 100% recycled cardboard and newspaper.

Big news for Seventh Generation! Last week the company announced that its Board of Directors has named John Replogle to serve as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President.

The final close for investment in Renewal2 Investment Fund is May 31, 2010.

Co-founder of Seventh Generation, a Renewal2 portfolio company, Jeffery Hollender launches his new book “The Responsibility Revolution How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win”. Co-authored with Bill Bree, this book challenges businesses to move beyond the limiting promise of corporate responsibility and provide real leadership and innovation.

For more information on the book see Seventh Generation’s blog.

Blog by Marc Gunther

Anyone who knows Jeffrey Hollender, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Seventh Generation, knows that his ambitions go way beyond selling laundry detergent and paper towels.

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Pioneering corporate responsibility organization Ceres recently announced that Renewal Investee 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.

CSRwire reports that Renewal investee Seventh Generation, the nation's leading brand of non-toxic, environmentally safe household solutions, announced today that it has become the first company in its industry in North America to purchase sustainable palm kernel oil certification credits to offset company wide use of the ingredient across its entire product line.