this so there's 500 choices of which detergent solution you're going to have to your laundry problem as if there were no other Solutions than corporate made plastic bottle detergent to clean clothes and there are I mean you can buy
think oh my gosh look how many choices there are of detergent there's this whole you know aisle with 500 kinds of different detergent each in their own beautiful plastic bottle with the big spout or the little spout or the HD or this so there's 500 choices of which
Building. Does anybody in this room know Bill de Blasio-- the mayor of New York? They don't use detergents.
and all sorts of household products, they are now looking at a revenue goal by next year of 50 billion dollars in sustainable product innovations. That has to do with anything from low compact laundry detergent that uses less energy and less product, costs less to ship to all sorts of different innovations there. And then the final area which is harder to describe for a lot of people, harder for people to buy into but it’s probably one of the biggest when it goes to Environmental Sustainability
an opportunity to interview Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. They were like titans of rock and I was really young and nervous. And to me there was important as great musicians machine with regular detergent but it's not working. PS: I did a search. I couldn't find anything helpful except using seltzer but I don't know what seltzer is. Can you help?"
What is different about doing a sitcom today than in the 90s, with so much content out there? Do I like liquid dishwashing detergent better than powder?
There's packaging that takes energy to create, transportation to get that packaging to market with the product in it, and then ultimately the product use. And sometimes for things like laundry detergent, it's actually use at the consumer end that has way more impact than the manufacturing of the product. So you've seen a lot of campaigns recently about washing with cold water detergents.
They started to take everything out of the van. They tore open bags of laundry detergent, breakfast cereal, wedding invitations from her daughter's wedding. They tossed the wedding dress out into the back.
made for love, that feelings are just tightly wound compasses, trying to make it home after a long night. Romance is a store brand laundry detergent we use to wash away our naive. Why do we love love?
You know, there are some famous examples of horders whose homes got so filled with crap that they actually died from it. There's a famous brother -- the Collyer brothers I started making my own laundry detergent and, you know, friends would want to go out and eat and I'd say, "Why don't I make a picnic?” You know?
He was bald, with hair tufted on the side like a clown's, and had wide, bushy eyebrows, glasses rimmed with gold, and large, swollen lips like a fish. He looked clean and smelled of soap and detergent. "Hello," I said. "I'm Lisa.
And that's because the temperature of your wash water-- that energy and energy required to heat the water-- is one of the biggest impacts. Not so much creating the bottle of laundry detergent. So GEN members collectively have saved tons of fossil fuels from being burned through the criteria in many of those product standards.
That's why we have big institutions like the National Endowment for the Arts, or big philanthropic institutions like the Duke Foundation or the MacArthur Foundation and so on. We don't have a National Endowment for the Detergents because we've decided that the private sector is very good at coming up with laundry materials, but we do have a National Endowment for the Arts because we feel that artists need a little extra help, right?
choices and they're not you know and and accepting those choices it's just like when you go to the grocery store and you think oh my gosh look how many choices there are of detergent there's this whole you know aisle with 500 kinds of different detergent each in their own beautiful plastic bottle with the big spout or the little spout or the HD or
detergent solution you're going to have to your laundry problem as if there were no other Solutions than corporate made plastic bottle detergent to clean clothes and there are I mean you can buy those little nuts from India if you want that clean it just as well and don't put phosphates in the I mean there's a whole
It wasn't bubbles yet, but bubbles was always in the back of his mind. So he always was testing different formulas and trying to test out different soaps and detergents and whatever to find out a formula where he can create, you know, bubbles that are large enough to do so many things, to manipulate a lot better.
And then, I'm sure, once you got up and you got out of bed and headed off to work on your bus or on the train, you're probably bombarded with ads that featured dogs selling everything from toilet paper to laundry cleaner and laundry detergent. And then, you made your way into work here, and you come into a pet-friendly workplace, where you see dogs in the office.
And it's how he treats his PTSD. So when he wakes up with night terrors from the stabbing, he cleans each shoe with toothbrushes and laundry detergent so that they can be as nice as possible for the shoes that he's giving out.
And sometimes for things like laundry detergent, it's actually use at the consumer end that has way more impact than the manufacturing of the product. So you've seen a lot of campaigns recently about washing with cold water detergents. And that's because the temperature of your wash water-- that energy and energy required to heat the water-- is one of the biggest impacts.
I mean, this is a company that infiltrated animal welfare groups, that spent $10s of millions to defend its use of elephants. And this issue of testing on animals-- for many, many decades, we've been testing mascaras, and lipsticks, and detergents,
And so there's a pretty good business called WashTec that makes money basically providing all the consumables, the detergents and stuff, in car washes.
So when you're buying shampoos, or makeup, or moisturizers, or cleaners for your car, or detergents for
so successful that it launched a whole new wave of thinking within the company and a new wave of innovation. The revenue goals for 2012 for that company, for the Ecomagination line are 25 billion dollars. Huge growth area from where it was just a few years ago. And Proctor and Gamble, a big consumer goods company that you are all familiar with, makes detergents and all sorts of household products, they are now looking at a revenue goal by next year of 50 billion dollars in sustainable product innovations. That has to do with anything