Gil Friend’s Blog

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money." So goes that wonderful quote attributed to the stenorian late Senator Everett Dirksen. Well, we thought it was real money when Goldman Sachs committed a billion dollars to renewable energy...

"The week in carbon" is on hiatus this week, and will return next week.

The United Nations Global Compact, the City of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and a wide array of Bay Area businesses have joined together in a unique partnership [the Business Council on Climate Change] designed to provide meaningful actions that businesses...

Courtesy of Tesa Silvestre of Sustainable Cape Ann: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will...

New York Times: A Buyout Deal That Has Many Shades of Green The week in carbon this week missed the big story: Early Monday, after several weeks of marathon negotiations that brought together both environmentalists and Wall Street bankers, TXU announced that its board...

A sometimes weekly, no pretense at comprehensive, occasionally opinionated scan of some of the week's key events in carbon emissions and climate crisis. The Globies Environmental Defense announced its Globies awards this week. The winners: Seattle mayor Greg Nickels,...

The long awaited public dialog between Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and whole foods advocate Michael Pollan (author of "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals"), scheduled for Tuesday Feb 27...

From TrappedByDogma.com, with a tip o' the hat to SmallDog.com OK, kids, what's the caption? (That's Steve Jobs on the left.)

http://ClickforGreenland.com/ is an NRDC website offering a very sobering - actually depressing - status report on the pace of melt of the Greenland ice sheet. Kiehl's (personal care products) will donate 25 cents to Natural Resources Defense Council for each of the...