Gil Friend’s Blog
Motley Fool stumbles across renewable energy
Energize Your Portfolio. Renewable energy sources could fuel Rule Breaking returns in the next few years. Do you have the guts to invest? [The Motley Fool] Flippant (no surprise there -- it's in the Fool style manual), but an interesting quick read nonetheless. Many...
Not that this will help…
Corporate Welfare Runs Amok. Reforms to the corporate tax system must be debated on their merits, not under cover of some phony label like 'job creation.' [NYT > Opinion] Congress's ostensible purpose for allowing the holiday is to unleash a flood of money for job...
Trade deficits, reality deficits
[John Robb]: WSJ. The US trade deficit rose to $60.3 billion in November (is there a link to the elections?). A new record. Despite a sinking dollar, the sale of US goods abroad dropped (down 2.3%). This is terrible news. The...
Cause-related marketing comes in many flavors
Contra CafĂ is a uniquely smooth and full-bodied coffee grown by former Nicaraguan Contras. And here I was thinking it was all about organic, peasant cooperative, shade grown,and fair traded uniquely smooth and full-bodied coffee. (I don't even drink coffee -- but I...
Why green building is good business
And (he notes modestly), WorldChanging also features my biweekly contribution on business and sustainabilty to their 'Sustainability Sundays' series, this time on the increasingly attractive economics of green buildings: 'Rating buildings in this way reveals how...
Urban sustainability
Also at WorldChanging today: The group EcoCity Cleveland has published a terrific overview of what cities are doing to make themselves more sustainable.
‘The Kind of Problem an Automobile Is’
Another collection of gems -- as usual -- at WorldChanging.com. Alex Steffens muses about The Kind of Problem an Automobile Is: The other day I was talking with a friend about the ecological problems caused by the car, and the phrase popped out of my mouth, 'The...
Latest hi-tech PDA
The continuing quest for Order out of Chaos (on my desk, in my life), has brought me to the treasure trove of David Allen's Getting Things Done -- a very disciplined system designed to bring one to the freedom and spontaneity of "mind like water." Best thing I've...
New Bottom Line: It Began With a Dot
Speaking of eWaste and the ecological challenges facing the computer industry, I've just posted a new 'New Bottom Line' column to the Natural Logic web site. It Began With a Dot: Product Regulation and Future Markets looks at: how the European electronic product take...