Gil Friend’s Blog
Quote of the day – leadership (& conversation)
A leader's job is to engineer epiphanies one conversation at a time. (From Sue Scott, author of Fierce Conversations) A Penny For comments and quotes the following: I was drawn to the questions Susan says you should be asking those around you: What is currently...
Bush beats Kerry (probably), but physics still trumps politics
Well, this election looks all but done. I'll leave it to others to do the Ohio math, but one thing is clear: regardless of who controls Congress or occupies the White House, we still get to deal with energy physics, which is ruthlessly non-partisan. An economy...
Of course I’m watching the election returns
I'm just not blogging it. :+) It's background as I put finishing touches on my keynote tomorrow afternoon on The State of 'Sustainability' (my current 'stump speech') at the CoopAmerica Business Network conference. If you're in or near San Francisco, c'mon down!
Bright Green Living Wiki
Some of the folks from the often exceptional WorldChanging blog are cranking up Bright Green Living Wiki: We all know that our way of life is unsustainable. What we lack is information on how to live better, organized and presented in such a way that we can actually...
Green lodging and car rentals
EvRental: Great concept; miserable web experience for their "reserve online" option. Are you listening, Jakob Nielsen? From State of California's Green Lodging program to reduce environmental impact of state employee travel, but perhaps useful for the rest of us too....
The projected count at this (or any given) moment
Courtesy of electoral-vote.com, a very interesting site full o' stuff.
Risk, opportunity, and CSR reporting
Also new on the web today, SustainAbility's biennial assessment of the best in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, Risk & Opportunity: Best Practice in Non-Financial Reporting. And with that, our accompanying analysis asking the critical question,...
Risk, CFOs, and the sustainability business case
That's the title of my latest "New Bottom Line" essay, available today on <a href="https://natlogic.com/resources/nbl/v13/n06.html">our web site</a> and at <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com">greenbiz.com</a>. It'll go out to subscribers...
Search of all searches?
Reacutal beta page, courtesy of MetaEfficient -- a kinda cool in its own right (if not humble) "guide to the most efficient things in the world."