Gil Friend’s Blog
Natural Logic is 25 years old today!
It looks like good things come in fives! Natural Logic is 25 years old today! This milestone is nestled in the midst of a bunch of five-multiple anniversaries: I turned 75 in March. We celebrated 50 years of the Institute for Local Self-Self-Reliance two weeks ago. We...
Three big climate stories… and “Healing the World in 18 Months”?
WALKING THE TALK ABOUT E.S.G…OR, WHEN THE STANDARDS SETTERS DON'T FOLLOW THEIR OWN STANDARDS Maybe you saw the headline: Climate target group in turmoil over carbon offsetting plan. The board of the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)—a consortium established to...
Band on the run • Belonging & Mood • Request & Reward
BAND ON THE RUN? There are plenty of claims and commitments in corpland. Lip service and going along to get along. Lowest common denominator compromises…and common denominators that raise the bar. You know where I fall on that spectrum (bar-raising, for those of you...
Belonging to the Living World • How My View Grew • And Speaking of Mood
BELONGING TO THE LIVING WORLD For years—decades—the organizing principle of my work has been How can business prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise? (Prosperity in the etymological sense of pro-spera, toward one's hope, toward thriving—as...
Casting Pods • New Narratives • Between Worlds • Fractions
THIS POD WAS JUST CAST I'm the opening guest on a new podcast series launching today. How My View Grew offers a novel premise: "Big thinkers describe how they see the world and how to make it better, but I want more. How do they get there? What did they used to think...
Fun with Augmented Intelligence: Winston, Friend…and friend!
Andrew Winston recently offered a wonderful post on LinkedIn asking ChatGPT for alternatives to "the core narrative or story that we're living today." Here's a snippet of what he wrote: Here are the 1-sentence versions, but the longer ones in my post are fascinating...
Lovins on COP28 • Conversations for Possibility • The next economy (13 years ago!)
A conversation We kicked off the fifth year of our Living Between Worlds—with Grace, Dignity, and Power last week, in conversation with special guest Hunter Lovins, in an exploration of COP28 and our climate futures: What happened. What didn’t happen. What needs to...
Why COP28 Doesn’t Matter
Yes, I said that. COP28—the recently-concluded UN climate conference—doesn't matter! Well, of course it does (as well as doesn't). It may lack teeth ("May?!?!" I hear you saying!), but it does provide the frame in which corporate, investment, and policy conversations...
When “happy new year” is insufficient | Plus: “Talk or action? Well, actually…”
Happy new year" just doesn’t seem sufficient for the year ahead—given the multiple pivotal challenges we face. So I wish you happiness— and its pursuit (as The Founders so wisely declared). And fortitude, serenity, courage, and whimsy. And a wild heart full of love. I...