Gil Friend’s Blog
Making money in the heartland
[GoodFourBusiness]: Regional Role Model for Business The innovations don't just come from the coasts. Since 1988 [Iowa] state facilities have invested over $51 million in improvements, resulting in annual savings of about $100 million. I'm not sure how to calculate...
Tall green
My latest 'Sustainabilty Sundays' posting just went up at WorldChanging.com -- this one about the proliferation of green/high-performance high-rise buildings. The folks who did 4 Times Square are at it again with 1 Bryant Park, just a block away -- one of many high...
Quote of the day
Blogging to you today from The Innovation Center in Bend, OR, taking part in a design charrette for the proposed Juniper Ridge Eco-Industrial Park, coordinated by 3estrategies.The room is festooned with cool, innovation-inspiring quotes. My favorite comes from Walt...
The New Left: Corporate America
[MarketWatch]: The New Left: Corporate America - Picking up the slack on issues from environment to AIDS Corporate America, it seems, is charging in where liberal government is refusing to tread, supporting more social programs to help not only employees but also...
Biking more now, and enjoying it more too
I always knew that biking would be healthier, and more fun, than driving. I didn't know that it would be as time-efficient as it is -- 15 minutes cross town vs 14 by car (not even counting time to park, fuel up, etc) -- or that the different sights, sounds and smells...
And speaking of reality…
which Lily Tomlin reminds us is (a) highly over-rated, (b) nothing more than a collective hunch, and (c) a leading source of stress among those in touch with it -- I offer you this excerpt from the sidebar to Kunslter's 'auto-delusionary' article: General Motors...
‘Delusions run deep in the easy-motoring economy’
Blogging gets to be hard work in a field that's exploding (espcially when trying to serve and lead that field at the same time). Just keeping up with WorldChanging.com is a job in itself. And then sometimes it's hard just figuring out what to excerpt from a piece so...
‘Going with the Flows’ at EnvironDesign9
Off to New York Wednesday through Friday for the EnvironDesign9 conference. I'll be speaking 11am Thursday on 'Going with the Flows' -- using our metabolic approach to assess performance and opportunity for companies, buildings and communities. Plus of course some...
Since iPods don’t have nine lives
I've written a lot about product take back and zero waste strategies as a business imperative. The pressure comes from outside as well: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition releases 'alternative' unApple annual report, From iPod to iWaste --...