Gil Friend’s Blog
The Evoke game launches March 3, 2010
I love this. Because designer Jane McGonigal "makes games that give a damn." EVOKE is an online game designed to teach collaboration, creativity, knowledge networking, entrepreneurship, courage, resourcefulness, sustainability, and vision. Our goal: to empower young...
In the wake of Copenhagen, some things are clear
A cartoon circulating during COP15 showed a climate denier in the audience gesturing to a PowerPoint at the front of the hall that listed "Energy Independence. Preserve rainforests. Green jobs. Livable cities. Renewables. Clean water, air. Healthy children. Etc, etc."...
Happy new year & decade
Happy 2010 everyone! For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. - TS Eliot Hopefully Alex Steffen's 2010's prediction: We're sailing the sea of weird now, and normal is a country whose shores we'll never see again....
Perspective: Beyond Copenhagen
COP15 -- the 15th Conference of the Parties climate negotiations in Copenhagen this month -- is the latest clarion call for business leadership in meeting the climate challenge. The recent tempest over embarrassing emails from a few climate scientists has contributed...
Happy Thanksgiving. (Here’s the plan!)
OK, here's the plan for the "happy" part (Courtesy of n-judah love song. And Laleh Shahidi.) The "thanksgiving" part is up to you. (But Jon Carroll can help.)
Get This: Overcoming the Key Barriers to Building a Sustainable Economy
Sustainable business strategies often hit a surprising roadblock -- the limiting (and false) assumption "green" will cost money, require sacrifice, and delay profits. The problem isn't that companies can't afford to operate sustainably. The problem is that too many...
Upcoming sustainable business events – with me! (and discounts too)
My speaking schedule has gotten increasingly crowded as interest continues to rise in sustainability as a serious business strategy. Here's what's up in the next few weeks: Digging Deeper San Francisco, September 27 2009 Discount Code: DiggingSF09 A Sustainability...
Quote of the day
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country....
Impossible? I’m not so sure
From Tim Ferriss's blog: "Don't tell me it's impossible," he says, "tell me you can't do it." "Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of...