Gil Friend’s Blog
Two kinds of writing
Seth Godin advises: If you're writing for strangers, make it shorter. Use images and tone and design and interface to make your point. Teach people gradually. If you're writing for colleagues, make it more robust. Be specific. Be clear. Be intellectually rigorous and...
Quote of the week
Watching Bruce reminds me of Reb Dylan's wise and oh-so-true observation that: Music is the only religion that really delivers the goods.
E Street Band ‘Live from New York’
...on public TV tonight, instead of that endless montage of oldies and doowap. I feel so much better now, with Bruce in the house.
Energy Act juxtapositions, too
There's much to be said about the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President Bush just signed into law, and I'm not the one to say it all. Other people are better analysts, and have more time to do it. But I do have a few observations to share: - Most of the news...
Energy juxtapositions (3)
[SF Chronicle]: Nuclear Energy Can't Solve Global Warming Mark Hertsgaard offers the cogent response I've been looking for to the small but growing chrous of 'enviros' (James Lovelock, Patrick Moore, Hugh Montefiore, Stewart Brand, and now Jared Diamond) who see...
Energy juxtapositions (2)
[Global Public Media]: Richard Heinberg asks 'Where is the Hirsch Report?' Evidently the US Department of Energy is interested enough in the Peak-Oil debate to commission a report on the subject. Released in February this year by Science Applications International...
Energy juxtapositions (1)
'Simulation shows US held over a barrel,' reports the Financial Times (a consistently more useful paper than most of what passes for news media in the US). Their lead: Terrorists yesterday struck oil facilities in the US and Saudi Arabia, pushing oil prices to a...
‘Ambitious’ banking targets
[ClimateBiz]: HSBC bank sets ambitious reduction targets for air emissions, waste The world's second largest bank will cut its CO2 emissions by an average of 5%, water and energy by 7% and landfill waste by 8%, across 90% of its operations by the end of 2007. At first...
More WSJ surprises
Even more surprising, the Wall Street Journal's lead article that same day (7/25/05) focused on the challenge and puzzle of endocrine disruptors: An especially striking finding: It appears that some substances may have effects at very low exposures that are absent at...