Gil Friend’s Blog
A class act at Indy
PS: Eco-folks probably don't tend to be into auto racing (disclosure: I am, always have been :-), but Danica Patrick was quite something at the Indy 500 yesterday. Great driving, getting real close to winning (and being the first woman to do so), and displaying major...
BOP on the road
Business Growth and Innovation in the Base of the Pyramid is a series of 'cross-sector dialogue[s] exploring the opportunities for small, medium and large companies and social entrepreneurs working with the Base of the Pyramid.' Upcoming dates include Stuart Hart in...
Sustainable Products, Sustainable Companies
[This piece was posted at WorldChanging this weekend, in my biweekly Sustainable Sundays submission, and will go out to the New Bottom Line list and up on the Natural Logic web site in the next day or two. An experiment in cross-posting instead of just cross...
Multiple Makower missives
Joel Makower's been bloggin' up a storm this week. Recent topics include: 'The Soul of Environmentalism' -- Forget environmentalism's 'death.' Turns out, the environmental movement is alive and well -- and has got soul. That's the message from a provocative paper,...
Sustainable business / Redefining business / Rating business
As part of the many-ringed circus that is UN World Environment Day in San Francisco, I'll be speaking at a session on The Sustainable Business Phenomenon: Leading Initiatives in Redefining Business. Thursday June 2, 2:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. Speakers: Rory Bakke of event...
The next billion
There's a rich and fascinating new multi-author blog at http://NextBillion.net, the handiwork of the inestimable World Resources Insitute. No, not about making or spending or taxing the next billion dollars. About bringing the next billion people into some measure of...
Seriously, the joke is dead
Thus spake the New York Times. Whatever tenuous hold the joke had left by the 1990's may have been broken by the Internet, Mr. Nilsen said. The torrent of e-mail jokes in the late 1990's and joke Web sites made every joke available at once, essentially diluting the...
Corporate Social Responsibilty reporting – survey results
The latest New Bottom line is now posted -- a wee bit behind its usual monthly schedule -- at both the Natural Logic web site and in the Sustainability Sundays section at WorldChanging.com. CSR Reporting: Current Practices and Future Trends reports the results of an...
CSR in the Cross-Hairs
[SustainableBusiness.com]: Recent months have seen a fierce and growing counter-attack against corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethics reform.... The stars in this dramatic fight: [California Governer Arnold] Schwarzenegger, squaring off against corporate...