Gil Friend’s Blog

[Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)]: An analysis by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that without BART traffic jams from Bay Area bridges would spill back to most of the East Bay and San Francisco street networks. Drivers would spend one or two hours just...

[Earth Policy Institute]: World production of solar cells--which convert sunlight directly into electricity--soared to 742 megawatts (MW) in 2003, a jump of 32 percent in just one year. With solar cell production growing by 27 percent annually over the past five...

Before I forget: there's a new 'New Bottom Line' article posted at the Natural Logic web site, musing about What is it about 'Zero Waste'?  All I want to know is: When are we going to get as smart as a chicken?

The next six weeks are packed with travel and speaking gigs, beginning with the Profitable Sustainability conference at the Seattle Westin Sept 26-29 -- where I'll be delivering the closing keynote on "The State of Sustainability" (as well as a panel on Strategic...

[Christian Science Monitor]: Efficiency could be the cheapest and easiest way to wean America from foreign oil. Rather than comment, I've excerpted many of the highlights -- a great collection of data points to use in building the business case with your company (or...

Winning the Oil Endgame, a new report from Rocky Mountain Institute, is the first roadmap of the oil solutionÖone led by business for profit, not dictated by government for reasons of ideology. This roadmap is independent, peer-reviewed, written for business and...

There's a new 'New Bottom Line' article posted at Natural Logic's web site, musing about the business imperatives of 'zero waste' strategies. Here's the good news: The technical challenges of sustainability are relatively straightforward, if the problem is framed...