For 25 years, Gary Hirshberg, the co-founder and "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield
Farms, has shown that making yogurt doesn't necessarily require the
same old culture. From the get-go, this environmental activist has used
his decided capitalist venture as a laboratory to promote green
business practices. Along the way, he's harnessed his idealism and
iconoclasm to build one of the leading brands in the dairy case. All
the while, he's demonstrated that getting bigger doesn't necessarily
mean having to lose one's passion or values. GreenBiz executive editor
Joel Makower talked with Hirshberg recently on the occasion of the
publication of his new book,
Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.