by Gil Friend | May 1, 2005 | Sustainability
My latest ‘Sustainabilty Sundays’ posting just went up at WorldChanging.com — this one about the proliferation of green/high-performance high-rise buildings. The folks who did 4 Times Square are at it again with 1 Bryant Park, just a block away...
by Gil Friend | Apr 29, 2005 | Sustainability
Blogging to you today from The Innovation Center in Bend, OR, taking part in a design charrette for the proposed Juniper Ridge Eco-Industrial Park, coordinated by 3estrategies.The room is festooned with cool, innovation-inspiring quotes. My favorite comes from Walt...
by Gil Friend | Apr 24, 2005 | Sustainability
I always knew that biking would be healthier, and more fun, than driving. I didn’t know that it would be as time-efficient as it is — 15 minutes cross town vs 14 by car (not even counting time to park, fuel up, etc) — or that the different sights,...
by Gil Friend | Apr 24, 2005 | Sustainability
which Lily Tomlin reminds us is (a) highly over-rated, (b) nothing more than a collective hunch, and (c) a leading source of stress among those in touch with it — I offer you this excerpt from the sidebar to Kunslter’s ‘auto-delusionary’...
by Gil Friend | Apr 24, 2005 | Sustainability
Blogging gets to be hard work in a field that’s exploding (espcially when trying to serve and lead that field at the same time). Just keeping up with WorldChanging.com is a job in itself. And then sometimes it’s hard just figuring out what to excerpt from...
by Gil Friend | Apr 19, 2005 | Sustainability
Off to New York Wednesday through Friday for the EnvironDesign9 conference. I’ll be speaking 11am Thursday on ‘Going with the Flows’ — using our metabolic approach to assess performance and opportunity for companies, buildings and communities....
