Gil Friend’s Blog
The race is on
[SocialFunds.com]: JPMorgan Chase Environmental Policy Triggers Tipping Point for US Bank Sustainability JPMorgan Chase (ticker: JPM) released a comprehensive environmental policy that follows in the footsteps of Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) and even...
United gets OK to dump four pension plans
[Business Week]: United Airlines gained a significant financial victory with court approval to dump its four pension plans but faces a tough challenge to win back the support of angry employees. Oh, we do so like to carry on about the 'rule of law' and the 'sanctity...
What Happened This Hour?
David Batstone offers up this little gem: 10 x 10 is an interactive exploration of the words and images of history as it happens. Every hour, the site collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image. Point to...
Marketing global warming
Steve Yastrow on Tom Peters' blog wonders why "global warming" is the Issue most poorly marketed? Many comments (64 by the time I got my licks in), but most of them with relatively little knowledge of cutting edge initiaitves inthis space. My late night two cents,...
‘Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and the Laws of Nature’ in streaming audio
Lest it be lost at the bottom of that GE/Ecomagination post earlier this evening: Speaking of the risks, opportunities and business logic of all this, you can now listen my recent speech on Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and the Laws of Nature in streaming audio.)...
The filthy truth about diesel ‘mules’
[New Scientist]: The problems these little trucks are causing was rumbled when the Chinese government commissioned a national energy inventory. It found a black hole in the figures, with consumption of diesel far greater than could be accounted for by the vehicles on...
Enlibra Principles – ‘moving toward balance’
I just stumbled across The Enlibra Principles (on the US Environmental Protection Agency site): The Enlibra Doctrine is an approach to environmental stewardship that was co-authored by former Utah Governor and later EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt and former Governor...
GE: ‘casting a bright light on sustainability’
You may have seen the new General Electric slightly-too-cute 'Ecomagination' ads (elephant impersonating Gene Kelly's great eponymous Singin' in the Rain dance number). It turns out there's a real story behond the story. Friend & colleague Joel Makower (who had a...
Soup? Art?
(As Lily Tomlin a/k/a Trudy the Bag Lady pondered in Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe) Well, the answer's now in: it's the Make a Meatspace Shuffle 'iPod out of food' design contest. Mmmm.