Gil Friend’s Blog
Back to the land of the blogging
Well, I'm back -- and so are the missing posts, thanks to the diligence and cleverness of Steve Hooker -- thanks again! -- and his upstreamNow tools. I just hope -- since we don't know why things stopped working -- that they keep working now...
Back from beach, and trying again
Back from vacation (six days of rest, hiking, reading at writing at Green Gulch Farm), and trying again to force a post -- Radio has for some reason refused to post the last six items, mostly from before I left. Let's see if this item does the trick...
Forcing a post
Four (!) entries since 8/24 (including one that I woudn't be on line this week, tho it seems I am, at least for a moment), and not one of them posted. Hopefully this item will coax them into appearing.(Radio Userland seems to do this from time to time. Don't know why....
Entering the blog-free zone
I'll be off line through Labor Day, for a long overdue brain refresher, and hopefully doing some long overdue long form -- e.g., book -- writing. (Home and office will keep operating in the interim.) See you all on the rebound!
Even the Fools see green in green
[The Motley Fool]: It's Easy Being Green. Companies can profit, not sacrifice, when protecting the environment. With these kinds of results, it's hard to argue for any buildings that aren't environmentally friendly. I guess if Motley Fool gets it, this must be...
They’re forever blowing bubbles
[BuzzMachine]: Loved this phrase in Om Malik's coverage of the big injection of VC bucks into Vonage today: Citron said Vonage was cash-flow positive excluding the costs of acquiring new customers, according to the newsreport. That's like saying the company is...
Footprints and profits
I finally tracked down the source, and direct quote, of this striking statement that I've been approximately quoting from Dupont CFO Gary Pfeiffer: During the decade of the 1990s, we improved our environmental footprint by about 60 percent and shareholder value...
Financial Downside of Underreporting Environmental Risks
[Origo Fourth Sector News]: GAO Identifies Financial Downside of Underreporting Environmental Risks While companies are required to disclose all information considered important or "material" to investors in their annual reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
China As Solar Tech Resource for Developing World
Speaking of China, this post today from [WorldChanging]:This could be big news. SciDev.Net reports that China plans to train 10,000 technicians from the developing world on the deployment and use of solar power technologies over the next five years....Remember the...