by Gil Friend | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I learned of Nelson Mandela’s passing earlier this month, I spent the afternoon in tears. Not tears of grief alone, but of love, admiration, awe, inspiration at the contribution this one man has made—both to the people of South Africa on their long path to...
by Gil Friend | Dec 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
This month I began serving as the Chief Sustainability Officer of the City of Palo Alto. As many of you know, I’ve been dedicated for the last 41 years, since cutting my teeth with Bucky Fuller’s World Game in 1972, to connect the human economy with the...
by Gil Friend | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
My friend Jonathan Koomey’s invited perspective article, “Moving beyond benefit-cost analysis of climate change”, was just posted by the open access on-line journal Environmental Research Letters. Here’s the abstract and the introduction. Abstract The...
by Gil Friend | Nov 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
[I fully intended my recent posting, 5 things I’ve learned in 8 weeks of sustainability conferences, to be provocative. (No surprise there. You may have noticed that I’m inclined to challenge familiar thinking and push the boundaries of what’s...
by Gil Friend | Nov 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
For most of the past eight weeks, I’ve been on the road at sustainability conferences*: New Metrics, Sustainability Applied, a private company briefing, Cities Alive, Net Impact, the SRI Conference, CleanTech Future. Keynoting some, moderating some, occasionally...
