Gil Friend’s Blog

I'll put the conclusions at the top, for those of you who don't read all the way through: The options for action -- for governments, companies and, yes, each of us -- should now be clear, if they weren't already: 1. Slow and reverse any and all contributions to global...

This is apparently a European initiative (thanks to Anne Caspari for the heads-up), but there's no reason Yanks can't play too as the time window rolls west: See5-Minutes De Répit Pour La Planete" Turn everything off On February 1st between 7: 55 p.m. until 8 p.m....

(A sometimes weekly, no pretense at comprehensive, occasionally opinionated scan of some of the week's key events in carbon emissions and climate crisis.) And what a week it was! CEOs In what the SF Chronicle labelled corporate climate change on climate change, [t]op...

Well, we've been knocked off line a couple of times over the past couple of days (both blog and

They're doing it again. Our friends Janine Benyus and Dana Baumeister of the Biomimcry Guild are leading the 2007 Biomimicry and Design course, April 15 - 21 just south of Palmar Sur, Costa Rica at La Cusinga Lodge. "We are returning to La Cusinga for the third time,"...

So why didn't I respond when Ivan Storck asked me for "5 Things You Don't Know About Me," and I did when Alex Steffen did? Because Alex gave me a deadline! Here's what I wrote: 1. Performed -- as a dancer -- at Carnegie Hall (folk dance troupe, if you must know, and...

Sun's EcoResponsiblity VP Dave Douglas has been blogging about carbon -- and raising good and thoughful questions about the merits of different strategies: My issue is with the fundamental design of CO2 offsets as they are being practiced today. Specifically, I...

The authors panel discussing the Worldchanging book at the Commonwealth Club is now available on line in RealAudio. Check it out!

WorldChanging has asked its contributors for thoughts on the question: "Looking Toward 2007: What's Next?" Here's what I wrote: The key words I'm watching for 2007: generative feedback. Performance feedback that doesn't just track behavior; it drives it. And changes...