by Gil Friend | Sep 21, 2005 | Sustainability
I get frustrated at my uneven blogging schedule — bursts of activity, days of silence — and jealous of those folks that crank out postings like clockwork. OTOH, I do have a business to run — a busy one at that — so probably ’twill be ever...
by Gil Friend | Sep 20, 2005 | Sustainability
A brilliant Jamais Cascio of the exceptional WorldChanging held forth tonight, at Global Business Network on the usual WorldChanging theme: a better world is here. After setting some context with the bad news about the depth of the challenges that global humanity...
by Gil Friend | Sep 20, 2005 | Sustainability
‘The corporations are demanding regulation,’ George Monbiot reports, ‘and the government is refusing to give it to them.’ For the first time on record, the permafrost of western Siberia is melting. As it does so, it releases the methane stored...
by Gil Friend | Sep 14, 2005 | Sustainability
John Elkington of SustainAbility reports changes at the DowJones Sustainability Index, including these trends: (1) Sustainability is continuing its move from corporate strategy and operations into product and service offerings…. (2) Companies are converging...
by Gil Friend | Sep 14, 2005 | Sustainability
[Seth Godin]: Very little remarkable comes out of bureaucracies for a simple reason. The members of the bureaucracy seek to be beyond reproach. Reproach is their nightmare, their enemy, the thing to avoid at all costs. And the remarkable feels like a risk. Seth writes...
by Gil Friend | Sep 14, 2005 | Sustainability
UNEP: A roving ‘Environment Train’ exhibition in Algeria, a radio series on pesticide pollution in Viet Nam and a novel ozone layer-awareness campaign in Costa Rica are among 16 innovative public campaigns featured in a new guidebook from the United...