Gil Friend’s Blog

On our last Living Between Worlds call (the video is here; please subscribe!) we digested the COP26 global climate summit: with a bit of appreciation for the excruciatingly incremental progress that seems to be the only way we know to change—except when we have...

CarbonBrief: COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow A very substantive and detailed (and not judgmental) summary by CarbonBrief of COP26 (for those who can tolerate watching sausage being made). Includes an "interactive table…show[ing] why it...

Reminder: Living Between Worlds. | Glasgow: What now? | Trimtabs: 1-on-1 | Hope LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS Our monthly Zoom salon continues Wed 12p PT. Register here for next week's call and future sessions. (Please zoom in five to ten minutes before noon, so we can start...

Living Between Worlds • Is Larry Lagging? • Can books change anything? • Sustainable Brands LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS My monthly ZoomSalon, exploring how we might live with calm, grace, and power in "the time of monsters," continues next Wednesday (and every third...

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take   This may be the business book we've been waiting for…and that many of us have been groping toward for the last decade or two. A growing number of businesses have been embracing...

Here's a brief summary of Living Between Worlds conversation #2.4 (You'll find the recording here, and the entire series here. My extended written excursion on these themes is still in the oven, and will post here (and other places) when it's baked. Meanwhile, you can...

LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS…WITH GRACE, DIGNITY, AND POWER Our monthly webinar series resumes Wednesday, exploring the many ways we find ourselves "living between worlds"—trying, each in our own ways, to “build new worlds in the shadow of the old.” Who joins these...

Dear Councilmembers, As Palo Alto's first Chief Sustainability Officer (2013 through 2018), and the staff lead on the initial S/CAP, I hope you’ll permit me to offer a few comments for tonight's meeting, even though I am not a resident and no longer have a formal...

People are hungry for meaningful conversations—that move worlds. Let's have some! Last year, in the early days of the pandemic, some 500 people joined me for a series of online conversations about COVID, the climate crisis, and "living with grace, calm and power in a...