Gil Friend’s Blog

The wise and ever perspicacious Jamais Cascio has spotted this cool custom news index tool from Daylife Labs I've long (35 years) been interested in the question of how we can "get the prices right" -- how can we internalize the externalities, eliminate market...

Here are the latest poll results from Focus The Nation's Choose Your Future poll -- which closes Feb 12: 1. Invest in the Clean Energy Revolution 13% 2. Cleaner Cars, California-Style12% 3. Create Green Jobs, Save Energy 12% 4. Build Green: Carbon Neutral by 2030 12%...

Natural Logic and our friends at Re:Vision Conscious Brands (not to be confused with our friends at Urban ReVision 😉 are conducting a survey on the ways employees -- at all sorts of companies -- are addressing new pressures concerning environmental, social and...

"Four Hour Work Week" author Tim Ferriss spotted this one. What's it got to do with sustainable business? Beats me! But it sure is cool! Pub Fifa Street 3 (Foot Capoeira)by mehzz The land of frog legs and baguettes has produced, in recent years and unbeknowst to most,...

André Angelantoni of Inspiring Green Leadership spotted this item on PR Newswire: HOUSTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to...

Environmental Business Journal had this story on its short list this week: YALE REPORT: U.S. SLIPPING IN ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE The United States ranks last among the Group of 8 nations and 39th among 149 countries in terms of environmental performance, according...

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I'm spending the day today at OpenEco Energy Camp 2008, an unconference hosted by Sun Microsystems, our partner in the OpenEco.com energy+carbon dashboard+community. Might blog during the day, might not.

How about green walls, halls, ramps, you name it? Try this from Inhabitat (via Re:Vision: If you’re a fan of botanical architecture, this might just be the coolest building ever.... [This] store in Seoul, South Korea... takes green roofs and living walls to another...