Gil Friend’s Blog

We are purging the Natural Logic library and archives, and have lots of material (that we no longer need) that may be of interest to researchers or libraries, including: - green business / sustainable business / business & environment newsletters dating back 15 years...

Architecture 2030 has released a new graph, illustrating that, even at peak production in 2030, the US will consume a year's supply of oil from expanded off-shore drilling in the outer continental shelf in just four days.

"Ford's 65 mpg car not for U.S." according to CNN "Breaking News Video". It runs on diesel, you see, and "We just don't think North and South America would buy that many diesel cars," says Ford America President Mark Fields. (Quoted at Grist. Thanks to David...

Here are some useful travel web sites from The Scobleizer. Personally, I'd be more interested in some useful travel less sites. I'm wanting to cut both footprint and wear-and-tear. (Though I think Tripit is particularly cool.) Be that as it may, I'm on the road again:...

(At least until the convention cranks up) From the ever-wiseTerry Mandel: Viktor Frankl said it best: “Everything can be taken from a man but . . . the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance, to choose one’s own way.”

Knowledge Jolt with Jack offers a set of Knowledge Management Principles, and a decription of the "end state": They offer a fairly standard definition of knowledge management... but I really like what they describe as the "end state" if these principles are...

One of the highlights of the sustainable urban block charrette was Chris Allen's presentation of the latest work from the Biomimcry Institute. First there's the forthcoming book: Nature's 100 Best Innovations ...the shortlist of one hundred technologies that are all...

Jessica Lipnack wanders from her blog Endless Knots to offer a couple of interesting pieces at Industry Standard about virtual work -- "its benefits, its pitfalls, its resisters, its committed participants." In March, she tracked the evolution of a"geek doctor", slow...

Well, the Sustainable urban block charrette got too intense and juicy for me to keep up on blogging, as we rolled up sleeves and moved from principles and barriers to conceptual design. I'll see if I can pull some of those insights together later. Right now we're...