by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Resolutions are meaningless without means to instantiate them. “Resolve,” a cognate, means to have an assertive and firm action to do something. Schedule the elements you need in your calendar, have someone hold you accountable, and apply the daily...
by Gil Friend | Dec 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
There are lists. And then there are lists of lists! Here are some of my favorites from the closing days of 2012. Some surprising, all worthy. Andrew Winston’s Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012 Marc Gunther’s green business heroes of 2012 My Top...
by Gil Friend | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last year I summarized the Top Sustainability Stories of 2011 and offered my predictions for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012. Here are my reflections on some of those predictions—I think I was pretty close—and a few big stories I missed. Watch for my...
by Gil Friend | Dec 16, 2012 | Blog
La lutte continue. Without context, numbers are just data. With context, they have a chance of being information. I fondly remember a talk by then EPA Administrator Steven Johnson some years ago. Last year, he bragged from the podium, we recycled 600,000 tons (or some...
by Gil Friend | Sep 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Every business, regardless of sector-in fact every industry, process and human activity-can be characterized by the energy and materials that flow though that system. (Actually, energy flows; materials cycle. But we’ll get back to that in a bit.) Every business...
