Gil Friend’s Blog
My 8 favorite posts of the top ‘n’ things
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 10...
Top Sustainability Stories of 2012—and 2013!
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...
Metrics that Matter
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...
Gratitude (a Thanksgiving meditation)
Be sure to think this day (every day?) about what you are thankful for. And who you are thankful for. And be sure to tell them. Let me start: I'm thankful for you - friends, family, colleagues, coaches, mentors, teachers, guides, clients and readers. Dancers and party...
My thinking about Prop 37 (GMO labeling). In case you were wondering.
[This post is by far the most liked & shared thing I've ever posted on Facebook. I'm happy to share it with you too. ] One of my personal idiosyncrasies that that I prefer to actually read ballot initiatives for myself, rather than depend on the summaries and...
Going With The Flows (What Metabolism Shows)
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 takes...
Is Your Value Stream Leaking?
Value stream mapping (thank you, Wikipedia) "is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as "material...
My Summer Reading List
I'm deep into some of these, just begun on others, and re-reading a few. Many are by people who I am glad to call friends. All are worthy of your attention. (And in these days of online everything, there's still something fine about curling up with one of these...
Good enough? Bold enough? Not enough?
[This post originally appeared in News From Natural Logic, a more or less monthly newsletter from Natural Logic, Inc.] Call it random, call it synchronous, call it selective awareness, but sometimes it seems the gems come in clusters. Some days the tweets just seem to...