by Gil Friend | Jul 5, 2005 | Sustainability
We’re watching the profile of Grameen Bank on PBS’s ‘New Heros’ series. Grameen, guided by founder Muhammed Yunus, has brought ‘micro-credit’ to millions of the poorest of the poor, required no collateral, experienced an...
by Gil Friend | Jul 5, 2005 | Sustainability
[Nicholas Kristof, NY Times]: ‘Kyoto would have wrecked our economy,’ Mr. Bush told a Danish interviewer recently, referring to the accord to curb carbon emissions. Maybe that was a plausible argument a few years ago, but now the city of Portland is...
by Gil Friend | Jul 4, 2005 | Sustainability
WorldChanging.com published a piece the next day, coincidentally, on Density as Efficiency, reporting on research comparing the energy efficiency of “high-density urbanism” to Energy Star-rated homes. The result was surprising, even to people already...
by Gil Friend | Jul 4, 2005 | Sustainability
In celebration of their 3,000th post, our friends at WorldChanging.com have been posting contributions from guest writers, and asked me to be one. They ran this piece which I wrote with my wife (and director of Natural Logic), Jane Byrd.As the recent World Environment...
by Gil Friend | Jul 3, 2005 | Sustainability
8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and make the trade laws fair. If these 8 men agree, then we will become the generation that made poverty history. That’s why we’re...
by Gil Friend | Jul 1, 2005 | Sustainability
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