Gil Friend’s Blog
More on sustainable seafood…
...in my 'Sustainable Sundays' posting on WorldChanging.com.
Sold out!
My upcoming presentation at the Commonwealth Club this Wednesday (on Business and 'Sustainability': Risk, fiduciary responsibility, and the laws of nature) seems to be sold out! The Commonwealth Club does offer a waiting lists one hour prior to the start of each...
LexThink!
Blogging to you today from 'LexThink! Chicago': Fifty dynamic and innovative ;'big thinkers' from the worlds of law, business, design, marketing, and technology will join together in a unique collaborative brainstorming enterprise with a single purpose: to build the...
Fish futures
Thinking together today with a fine group of people brought together this Poisson d'Avril by CleanFish ('Fish You Can Trust') and PassionFish to discuss -- and impact -- the future of sustainable seafood. What are your favorite examples and success stories of how...
Batting ‘zero’ – and that’s a good thing
Home town advantage: The Berkeley City Council 'made environmental history' when the Council officially - and unanimously - established one of the nation's first Zero Waste Goals, adopting a 75% waste reduction goal for 2010, and establishes a Zero Waste Goal for...
I ‘ll be speaking at
I 'll be speaking at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco (which I'm told is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum) on April 6. Please share this with your list, and forward to your favorite business executive! Business and...
Triple Bottom Line Accounting
[GreenBiz]: The change from one-dimensional financial reporting to three-dimensional 'triple bottom line' (TBL) reporting has created new challenges... [which] will require management accountants and other financial professionals to adapt and learn some new skills....
‘Green Car China’ – Fuel cell futures
Speaking of strategic choices in the face of peak oil... [WorldChanging]: Decades behind developed nations when it comes to supporting a car culture, China may actually benefit from its very backwardness. All those bicycles mean there isn't a cumbersome - and...
Peak Oil
[One more from WorldChanging]: In Herold's view, each of the world's seven largest publicly traded oil companies will begin seeing production declines within the next 48 months or so.... Add increased demand for petroleum from rapidly-developing China and India to the...