Gil Friend’s Blog

"The elegant and eloquent Stephanie Mills," as Nancy Jack Todd so rightly calls her, is writing a biography of Bob Swann (co-founder of the Schumacher Society, land-truster, community currency advocate, Ghandian, and more). Her second Schumacher Lecture, given in 2004...

I didn't mean "sunset," of course, in that last post , which is why I put it in quotes, (Bucky Guy that I am). Clarification courtesy of Margaret Eiluned Morgan: Buckminster Fuller has written extensively in Spaceship Earth about the different vocabulary we would use...

It's dark now, and I found a special comfort once again in the waning light of "sunset". (As I do whenever I take - or more accurately, allow - the time to notice it.) Actually the sun has never been visible today, through the fog and rainclouds that have graced the...

Test posting. My last post - about EcoTalk and "Capitalism 3.0" - isn't posting. Maybe this will force it into the open...

Betsy Rosenberg, host of the most excellent EcoTalk radio program, asked for my comments after the "Capitalism 3.0" panel at the Commonwealth Club last week, where Clif Bar CEO Sheryl O'Laughlin, ActNow Productions CEO Adam Werbach, TransFair CEO Paul Rice, and...

I generally hate it when blogs get all self-referential, but sometimes it makes sense. So a big shout out and thanks to Jamais Cascio for coming over today to help get me over some Moveable Type resistance and start buffing up this blog. More tweaks to come in coming...

I love this post from 37signals. (Then again, I love most of the things they do.) Cell phone sound quality was bad enough, but now we accept further degradation introduced by bluetooth headsets. CD-quality sound is being replaced by further downsampled downloadable...

"Care to know how much pollution one man finds under his skin?" asks Wired in Toxic Man Talk. "Ya gotta love these hands-on human interest stories. In Beyond the Beyond." The pointer is to Technology Review's Toxic Man? article. A small excerpt: Turns out there were...

Matthew Kish in the Portland Business Journal tracks the evolution of interest in CO2 and global warming from environmental concerns to business concerns, A new item for watchdogs: the corporate carbon load: Roughly half of the country's automobile, manufacturing, oil...