Gil Friend’s Blog

And what a remarkable 12 years it's been. (I've been cueing up a reflective and hopefully inspiring posting, but it's not quite cooked yet. So meanwhile, have some cake and check back soon!)

This just in: I've just been named a named Pinnacle Award Finalist -- along with Ray Anderson, Amory Lovins, Karl-Henrik Robert & Bob Willard! -- by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)! “The ISSP Pinnacle Award acknowledges those people...

Looming behind the earthquake in Japan and turmoil in the Middle East is the persistent question of US energy policy, or (as Thomas Friedman so eloquently reminds us) the lack thereof. There are many ways to wade into this issue: national security, balance of...

From Reflections on Blogging with Fernando Flores Language has two components, one part of language represents reality and other part has to do with inventing worlds with another. The invention of worlds is done through offers, promises, requests, and statements. When...

Jane found this at breakfast, from Adam Regn Arvidson In 1959 British novelist-scientist C.P. Snow called this dichotomy “The Two Cultures,” a phrase Loren Eiseley references in “The Illusion of the Two Cultures,” which appeared in The American Scholar in 1964. In his...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12891-is-mathematical-pattern-the-theory-of-everything.html

If feedback loops are the basic unit in Universe, how can the variety of ways those loops can be arranged and juxtaposed give rise to the infinite forms of varied vitality and emergence?

The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom. - Rav Kook

We are the land, and the water, and the grizzly bears, and the soil microbes. This is not a New Age statement. It is a medical statement, a scientific statement." - Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network