Gil Friend’s Blog
How to Kick the Oil Habit
The wild-eyed crazies at Fortune are joining that socialist rag Business Week in rethinking energy policy. Risk, in other words, has become a part of the fundamental equation when it comes to the price of oilÖnot a temporary "premium," as some characterize it. Indeed,...
Raising the bar on sustainable business
[New Bottom Line]: Sustainable business - a vision statement This latest article in my New Bottom Line series lays out a business vision for 'getting beyond mitigating the problem, makingæthings less bad, slowing the rate of decline of theæregenerative capacity of the...
Decentralized Intelligence
[Slate], via [bBlog]: What Toyota can teach the 9/11 commission about intelligence gathering. When organizations fail, our first reaction is typically to fall into 'control mode': One person, or at most a small, coherent group of people, should decide... But when a...
Stealth Deregulation
NY Times]: Out of Spotlight, Bush Overhauls U.S. Regulations April 21 was an unusually violent day in Iraq; 68 people died in a car bombing in Basra, among them 23 children. As the news went from bad to worse, President Bush took a tough line, vowing to a group of...
Prozac ‘found in drinking water’
[BBC News]: An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater. A strange, frightening -- and depressing -- as this story is, it's even more troubling that A spokesman for the Drinking Water...
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-class Republican
[TNnewsllies]: Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are...
Running after the gazelles
[SF Business Times, via MSNBC]: Oakland, other cities dig into 'economic gardening' Economic gardening emphasizes nurturing the most promising 3 to 5 percent of companies within a city rather than looking to lure large companies from outside city limits. 'In Oakland,...
Environmental Management System’s got you down?
[Joho the Blog]: Standard dissatisfaction For those of you laboring in the vineyards of ISO 14001 EMS development, here's a bright note to muse on: The ISO organization - the global purveyor of standards - has issued a new standard: A new ISO standard offers a...
Business Week cover covers ‘Global Warming’
(or what Rabbi Arthur Waskow prefers to call 'global scorching.') [WorldChanging]: The well-known socialist rag Business Week is even making global warming its cover story this week, and the article makes good reading for anyone interested in the business case for...