# Professor Tensie Whelan notes that consumers want to buy sustainable products and e-commerce retailers can help them do so by sharing environmental and social data on their online platforms

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Excerpt from [GreenBiz](https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-e-commerce-retailers-should-increase-transparency-about-their-products) -- "'Consumers want to buy sustainable products and e-commerce retailers can help them do so by sharing environmental and social data on their online platforms,' said [Tensie Whelan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan), professor and director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and author of the report’s foreword, in a statement. 'Whether companies choose to jump at this opportunity will determine their ability to cultivate the consumer and remain competitive over the long-run.'"

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