Gil Friend’s Blog

I'm just back from that 5-day Integral Sustainability seminar, which was jam packed and deeply rewarding. (I'm hoping we'll be able to offer it again next year.) And digging out from about 12 days on the road! Many things to write about... The next events in my queue...

SocialFunds reports on Executive Excess (PDF), the 13th annual CEO compensation survey from United for a Fair Economy (UFE) and Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). 'We are all in this together, everywhere in the world,' [former ExxonMobile CEO] Lee Raymond told...

While we're slowly putting together our own podcast series (in our legendary spare time), Brad Redderson of Stranova has given us a boost, with the release of the second of its 'Voices from 2020' podcasts, featuring 'reflections on the present from the perspective of...

Also huge: Proposition 89, on the California ballot this fall, to stop the legalized bribery of massive money in politics. Case in point: AT&T and other telecom companies are spending more than $1600 per day per California legislator to win the day for their sides...

[SF Chronicle]: California will become the first state in the country to require industries to lower greenhouse gas emissions under a deal struck Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrats that could dramatically reshape the state's economy....By 2020, when...

[Greenpeace]: The biggest names in electronics have just sat their first global exam on their green credentials. Ranked on their use of toxic chemicals and electronic waste (e-waste) policies only Dell and Nokia scraped a barely respectable score while Apple, Motorola...

[CIWMB]: After more than a decade of infrastructure and effort, early years of doubt and nay saying and a seismic shift in public opinion, California now diverts 52 percent of the 76 million tons of solid municipal wastes it generates yearly. The official 52 percent...