Gil Friend’s Blog
‘The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon’
WorldChanging.com reports on Der Spiegel's 'astounding interview with Pan Yue, Deputy Director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration.' We are using too many raw materials to sustain this growth. To produce goods worth $10,000, for example, we need...
CSR reporting and corporate performance
My New Bottom Line article this month looks the growing trend to corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting -- more than 2500 companies worlddwide -- and company performance, and asks 'How closely are they correlated?' It turns out that the best reporters (as...
Turning problems into profit centers
Another gem relayed by Good For Business, this one via the Wall Street Journal: There are 26 doctors on staff at Quad/GraphicsÖinternists, pediatricians and family practitioners that comprise a critical department within one of America's largest printing companies....
EcoCement eats CO2
[Good For Business]: By blending magnesium oxide and conventional cements, TecEco's environment-friendly cement uses one of the earth's most abundant elements, lessens the need for burning fossil fuels, and forms clean, strength-giving minerals that can coexist with...
Factor Ten
My 'Sustainability Sundays' post at WorldChanging this week is about Factor Ten, and the call for a 10x improvement in resource productivity from our present primitive state. (Factor Ten is increasingly important in Europe, under-noticed in the US -- true about so...
‘Lots about media and communications campaigns’
The always perceptive Arthur Young (of the oddly named but quite worthwhile iGreenBuild newsletter) reports Lots about media and communications campaigns, particularly environmental: http://www.campaignstrategy.org/. Looks worthy.
Quote of the day
Super-investor Warren Buffet (who's been betting against the dollar): A country that is now aspiring to an 'Ownership Society' will not find happiness in -- and I will hyperbole here for emphasis -- a 'Sharecroppers Society.'æ But that is precisely where our trade...
Quote of the day
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, David Stephenson reminds us. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Better is, well, better
[Seth Godin]: 'Sooner or later, it's about better' Google maps (Google Maps ) is just plain better than mapquest or yahoo maps. So much better it's remarkable. So much better that it doesn't make sense to use anything else. This is worth remembering. Your first choice...