Gil Friend’s Blog

Microcredit pioneers Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank have just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Worthy! From the Bloomberg story on the announcement (which seems to have not yet hit Google News): 'Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups...

I'll be spending the day in the body shop today, getting some cosmetic repairs necessitated by overshooting my handlebars last week. The combination of coasting fast down a San Francisco hill + hitting a patch of gravel when braking + gravity didn't work all that...

October 9th is Overshoot Day, according to the Global Footprint Network: Rising consumption of ecological resources is pushing the world into ever earlier ecological deficit or 'Overshoot' Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 9th, humanity has...

One of the saddest and perhaps most obvious parts of the HP scandal was their unfathomable decision to put the responsibilities of Director of Ethics in the hands of "a heretofore anonymous corporate lawyer," Kevin Hunsaker. Such different responsibilities: one to...

Ed Mazria presented the opening keynote at West Coast Green in San Francisco September 28, and offered what was probably the most compelling, moving and useful global warming presentation I've heard yet. (No offense, Al, but Ed got more usefully into what to do for...

David Orr, writing in Ocean Arks International's Annals of Earth: It is time to expand our political horizons in ways commensurate with the extent of our effects on the future and the community of life. It is time to adopt the right to life writ large enough to grant...

Did anyone attend NBIS's Preparing for REACH -- The European Union's Global Chemicals Policy Initiative and Chemicals Management System, September 15th at the Seattle Airport Doubletree? What is REACH: The proposed overhaul of the European chemicals management system...

Posting a few items that got away from me (drafted, never posted during two weeks on the road) that might still be of interest... BBC News Online Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice...

[NY Times]: Sir Richard Branson, the British magnate and adventurer, said today that all of his profits from his five airlines and train company, projected to be $3 billion through the next 10 years, would be invested in developing energy sources that do not...