Gil Friend’s Blog

What do Global Warming, Oil Dependency, Hunger and Malnutrition, Dirty Air, Dirty Water, Overfishing, Epidemics, Drug-Resistant Infections, Waste Disposal all have in common? They're all ways to "Go Green. Get Rich" according to Business 2.0. Saving the planet has...

I've always loved the Witkar. Pioneered in Holland, this 1970s heir to the Provo's free white bicycle program (being picked up in the recently announced and recently halted free bicycle program in Paris) offered pay-by-the-minute electric cars that could be picked up...

Courtesy of Business Two Zero: If everything is under control, you are going too slow. — Mario Andretti

A couple of reflections on climate crisis and human action. The inestimable Jon Carroll muses: I am reminded of my youthful experience with the vacuum cleaner.... It never occurred to me to wonder where all those dust bunnies and paper bits and cookie crumbs went. I...

More press: Natural Logic associate Christine Arena is featured in USA Today yesterday: Businesses grow more socially conscious, talking about her new book, The High Purpose Company. Based on close research into 75 US companies, Christine found that "more corporations...

I'm interviewed this week for a story about the European Union's REACH directive. The interview ran as the cover story -- titled "Chemical Weapon" -- of "nrg", the business magazine of the Israeli newspaper Maariv. (The interview was in English; the story's in Hebrew....

Several people have reported problems posting comments. Should work fine now. Chalk it up to my learning curve with MovableType.

(I knew when I started writing "The Week in Carbon" that I was strapping on the jets. It's turned out though that the field isn't the only thing that's heating up -- so is our business! Four new clients this week alone: building a greenhouse gas baseline, reporting...