Gil Friend’s Blog
The week in sustainable business
My regular 'The Week in Sustainable Business' (published, as fate would have it, every other week) is up in the 'Sustainability Sundays' at section at WorldChanging.com. This hasn't been the best of times for corporate social responsibility (CSR), and I was thinking...
[Dave Pollard]: How a ‘free’
[Dave Pollard]: How a 'free' market ruins the entertainment industry So now you know, if you didn't already, that the 'box office records' routinely reported to be broken are all dollar records, and that actual attendance and popularity of films, by any measure, are...
I’m changing the climate!
Ask me how! Feel the adrenaline rush of stalking the really big game š like the Denaliœ, Yukonœ, or Tahoeœ. Get the thrill of witnessing the tagging of an Excursionœ, Expeditionœ, or Escaladeœ with a not-so-subtle message that will leave them scratching their heads....
Blogomania
Shouldn't I have something better to do on a Saturday night?
Speaking of maps
[Social Design Notes]: Despite increasing consolidated and homogenous media and increasingly pervasive Internet access, ideology exists spatially. Six links in that posting. Click 'em all. You'll see a fascinating range of cartographic interpretations on the...
DIY Interactive Maps
Another find from our friends at WorldChanging: do-it-yourself interactive maps. Bonus: Social Design Notes is also making the application, with maps, available for download as datafiles, for others to use as they see fit. The guy behind the map has lots of other cool...
It ain’t rocket science…
...says Thomas Friedman on Tim Russert's show on CNBC (sorry, can't find a link to a feed). Geo-Green -- an aggressive, renewables based energy independence program for the US (and, ohmigawd, a gasoline tax!), to (among other things) drive down the price of oil to...
80 hour weeks are bunk
[Crossroads Dispatches]: Tom Peters is saying basically the same. They say 'Take a deep breath. Be calm.' I say 'Tell it to Wal*Mart. Tell it to China. Tell it to India. Tell it to Dell. Tell it to Microsoft.'They say 'Eighty-hour weeks will kill you.' I say 'Work...
Industry roadmap: Retrofitting US economy for solar power
The Solar Energy Industry Association roadmap 2030 (PDF). I can't find the total cost of the roadmap. Regardless, this is a classic market-state program. It radically increases the opportunity of US citizens by reducing dependencies. Freedom of action enhances...