Gil Friend’s Blog

Natural Logic has been gathering and annotating a comprehensive list of carbon calculators, ecological footprint calculators and the like. Our first collection - our carbon calculator compendium - is now live on Squidoo. (It's a work in progress, like everything in...

Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge (the author of Information Dashboard Design) offers nine Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts [464kb PDF] as the latest of the rich offerings in his library of articles on "visual business intelligence." Rule #1 If you want...

Winrock International reports: In a joint funding venture between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Wallace Center at Winrock International, in partnership with the Training & Development Corporation (TDC), has launched a...

Quote of the Day (from a posting a few weeks ago, but I just found it) goes to Rand Waddoups, Sustainability Director at Wal-Mart: Even though we don’t know exactly how we will meet these goals, we still set them. That's courage, imho. Gotta love it! (In contrast to...

TidBITS spotted Guy Kawasaki's latest site, http://www.alltop.com/ Alltop, which aggregates "all the top headlines" on a stack of subjects from Mac to green, from moms to politics. Nicely done. (Except they're not grabbing our feed. Yet.)

In other words, the Constitution was standing in the way of protecting the Constitution. Thank you, Jon Carroll.

Michael Stusser of Green Spa Network says "Friends, you gotta see this. (Amazing 3d sidewalk chalk drawings) Your brains will fall out." And he's right!

I'll be giving a series of presentations on sustainability strategies at Humboldt State in Eureka CA next week. (One of many gigs on the horizon. Here's my upcoming speaking schedule.) If you're in the area, c'mon down! Whether you are or not, catch my interview --...

National Geographic reports on a new global map that shows: No areas of the world's oceans remain completely untouched by humanity's influence, according to a new study. Bummer, dude!