Gil Friend’s Blog

Carl Frankel's quoted me in The Economic Storm's Silver Lining over on The Matter Network. Despite the fear and uncertainty associated with the financial meltdown, I said, ...this is not the time for corporations to cut back on their sustainability initiatives. What...

Michael Pollan (author of the exceptional The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) offers An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief in the New York...

BBC News reports: The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.... [A]s forests decline, nature stops providing services which it used to provide essentially...

It’s time to vote. Yes — in the elections in November — but not only that. I’m talking about the voting you do every day. Every time you drop a dollar, yen, mark, yuan, frank, rial or pound on the shop counter or wire it through cyberspace, you’re voting. That's the...

The X Prize folks are looking for the next crazy green idea. The X PRIZE Foundation (http://www.xprize.org ) is looking for your crazy green ideas to become the next X PRIZE. So with the help of Prize Capital we’ve created the $25,000 “What’s your crazy green idea?”...

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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -Buckminster Fuller (Bucky was a powerful influence on me, and certainly on my notion that the sustainability challenge is fundamentally a conversation...

I've been wanting to write about The Melt these last few weeks -- because it's been looming in the back of my mind, no matter how much I try to stay focused on work; because so little that's been written about it gets past the polarized oversimplification of "Do...

(I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but it some ways it's even more timely now.) Bill Saporito muses in Time Magazineon How We Became the United States of France, and observes: GM and Ford need money to develop greener cars that can compete with Toyota and Honda....