Gil Friend’s Blog
Handwriting on Bill’s wall?
Probably not, but still worth a post. [Wired News]: 'About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod, said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. 'It's pretty staggering.'
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ACLU Pizza and Defanging 'the Matrix' Coming to a homeland near you, unless...
More on the Cost of Green
The latest New Bottom Line is now posted: More on the Cost of Green: Why Green Building is Good Business Guess what? It's as true about business strategy, product design, industrial processes, food system and transportation infrastructure as it is about buildings. As...
Networking behavior, sexuality, homeland security, and cool graphics
David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al talks about an important new study on networking behavior from the Ohio State Research Foundation with implications for a many strategies, including my "smart mobs for homeland security" one. With very cool network...
WEEE & RoHS: Ready or not, here they come!
From Pamela Gordon of our ally Technology Forecasters: The Clock is Ticking -- Are You Ready? 'We can't be ready for RoHS yet,' I heard a manufacturing manager at a mid-sized OEM say last month about the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive, 'because not all...
Easier to be green?
[WSJ.com]: By far, the most talked-about topic in the architecture universe is how to reduce the environmental impact of everything from summer cottages to skyscrapers. And there are some remarkable examples -- some would say exceptions -- of progress. The question...
Google suggest
Type ahead searching from the Googlemeisters. Cool beans.
Yet another argument for energy independence
[Times OnLine]: We are witnessing nothing less than the geopoliticalisation of the world‰s oil and gas industry. Governments rather than traditional commercial enterprises are taking control. And those governments have interests hostile to America‰s. This is not the...
100 Most Sustainable Corporations. Maybe.
[WorldChanging]: The Global 100 is a new annual ranking of the world's most sustainable corporations, unveiled last week at Davos. Their definition of corporate sustainability is pretty loose...[but]...just as governmental lip-service to ideas like the hydrogen...