Gil Friend’s Blog
Look! Up in the sky!
Worldchanging features an interview (and podcast) with Ingrid Severson of Bay Area Localize where she leads the Rooftop Resources project, "developing an assessment tool for determining the potential of urban rooftops to generate substantial volumes of food,...
A really big canary
The federal proposal to put polar bears on the Endangered Species list is good news, yet deeply sobering. It tells us that things are bad enough that even this administration, which seems to have been averse to fact and science to its very core, has yielded to the...
Ecosystem Services
Payment for Ecosystem Services, taking place in Costa Rica
Moving day week
There'll be a short blogging hiatus as we port this blog over to Moveable Type, and this new more memorable address. Everything's here from my old blog (on Radio Userland), but I'll probably be fiddling with features and formats for a few days to come. (Hearty thanks...
Worldchanging in San Francisco
Two events this week in San Francisco in connection with WorldChanging - A User's Guide for the 21st Century -- the 600 page or so extension of the exceptional WorldChanging.com web site. (Disclosure: I'm a contributing author to both site and book.) You're invited to...
Green my Apple
Catherine Day of Current.tv points out that Greenpeace has done more than rank the eco-profile of computer manufacturers. They've also mounted a very stylish Green My Apple campaign, complete with fake ads, t-shirts, viral video, etc. Clever. Here's my personalization...
Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose
Amory's been on a roll, speaking up a storm. (My path crosses his at BSR a few weeks ago, and at Commonwealth Club in San Francisco next week - but that's just with my olimilmted movements.) Tonight he's on the Rose. This just in from RMI: Tonight, November 28, 2006,...
Globalization…
The venerable British consultancy SustainAbility has released its latest Forum - a discussion among various members of its Core Team and a total of 35 members of its Faculty/Network (on which I'm honored to serve) - on this timely question: Will globalization help or...
On the road again
The autumn conference season is winding down, but it's not wound yet! In the last few weeks I've spoken at the NetImpact conference in Chicago (presenting about S-BAR - the sustainable business rating system - with Joel Makower, who then did the same at the SRI in the...