Gil Friend’s Blog

Mashable has a worthy collection of "80+ tools, social sites and resources to help you help the planet". It doesn't have everything (not Natural Logic, not Footprinter, not even GreenBiz, for example), but does have lots of good links to calculators, directories,...

Jamais Cascio blogs on Crimes Against the Future and the tobaccofication of carbon. Whether or not Katrina could be indisputably linked to global warming, it has become the iconic global warming event in the public mind -- a climate 9/11, if you will. When New Orleans...

In a long, thoughtful and fascinating feature on bottled water at Fast Company this month, Charles Fishman leads us through "A journey into the economics--and psychology--of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence." It's a journey...

Doug Englebart, at the Digital Earth conference (where I'll be speaking, tomorrow and Thursday, about "GeoScope and Regional Sustainability Dashboards"): Lifetime goal: As much as possbile to boost mankind's collective capability for coping with complex, urgent...

The SF Chronicle reports on premier nature soundscaper Bernie Krause: "Forty percent of the habitats that I've recorded have been forever silenced, gone fully extinct or are hopelessly altered. I can't imagine living without the divine music of the natural world."...

Seth Godin, speaking to Guy Kawasaki about "The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)": Here’s what we know: it’s easy to record and print a CD and hard to make a hit. Easy to write a book and hard to make it a bestseller. Easy to...

Natural Logic is eight years old tomorrow! And there's lots of news to celebrate -- so much that we haven't had time to write about. (But we soon will, so do check back.)

Fox News may love to get on Al Gore's case, but parent company News Corp. seems to be looking at things a bit more soberly. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch says that all News Corp. business units will become carbon neutral by 2010 – through energy efficiency, buying...

Fourteen months ago I wrote Sustainability at the Tipping Point. Little did I know! For the past three months, it's felt like someone lit a rocket -- fueled by the IPCC report, the formation of the US Climate Action Partnership, and dozens of other initiatives and...