Gil Friend’s Blog

Sez Gary Liss, Mr. Zero Waste: If you're not for zero waste, how much waste are you for? Nice, eh? (Disclosure: Natural Logic is working with Gary on the Zero Waste Plan for Palo Alto CA, as as the California Sustainable Business Council.)

From GreenLAgirl, via GreenBusiness.net: The Greenlight Greenliving Essay Contest wants you to write a 500-word (or less) essay about how you'd renovate your home to make it environmentally friendly.Entries are due July 20, 2006. The winner gets $2,500. Sez the...

[Sunday Herald (Scotland)]: Attempts by multinational corporations to talk up their social and environmental responsibility are so threadbare and misleading that they are preventing progress towards a sustainable future. That is the conclusion of a trenchant new study...

Speaking of MSWG, I'll be speaking at their conference later this morning, together with client Carol Kraege of Washington Ecology, about finding new sources of business value through innovative approaches to regulation. Specifically, we'll talk about the recent pilot...

Apparently not. I'm in Park City Utah today, for the Multi-State Working Group annual workshop. Salt Lake City Mayor, Rocky Anderson is giving the morning keynote, describing a surprisingly Salt Lake City Green program; they're not on the SustainLane list, which rates...

Terry Gips of Alliance for Sustainability in Minneapolis offers this heads up:Al Gore will be discussing Inconvenient Truth and Global Warming on Larry King Live tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 8 pm.(And Ann Coulter tonight, if you can possibly stand it!)If you haven't...

Lots of new releases geospatial releases from Google today:. Satellite imagery update: . New version of Google Earth: . Google SketchUp with textured buildings: . Updates to Google Maps and the Google Maps API, including. Google Maps API, and KML for Google Maps....

Coming to you today from Google's GeoDeveloper Day -- the pre-event to the Where 2.0 conference tomorrow and Wednesday. Stay tuned for details -- unless I get so engroessed I forget to blog -- and most likely for a longer piece soon on WorldChanging.The Google and...

Al Gore's climate crisis film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', opens in the Bay Ares this week. Maybe we'll see you at the afterparty. Meanwhile, truth is apparently inconvenient for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Remember their 'carbon is life' ad campaign that I...