by Gil Friend | Feb 20, 2005 | Sustainability
A fascinating juxtaposition of worldviews in yesterday’s SF Chronicle (New Global Warming Evidence Presented): ‘We were stunned by the similarities between the observations that have been recorded at sea worldwide and the models that climatologists...
by Gil Friend | Feb 16, 2005 | Sustainability
Tilting at Windmills. Local environmentalism is undermining one of our best options for slowing global warming. By Bill McKibben. [NYT > Opinion] In the best of all possible worlds, we’d do without them. But it’s not the best of all possible worlds....
by Gil Friend | Feb 16, 2005 | Sustainability
Mixed Feelings as Kyoto Pact Takes Effect. The Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, takes effect on Wednesday amid worries about its fairness. By MARK LANDLER. [NYT > Science]
by Gil Friend | Feb 16, 2005 | Sustainability
[Booz Allen Hamilton]: A new study — Deriving Value from Corporate Values — by the Aspen Institute and management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton found that companies routinely identify values as a top agenda issue, and public companies that report...
by Gil Friend | Feb 16, 2005 | Sustainability
The Kyoto Protocol takes effect, with 141 countries signed on. (Joel Makower has an excellent Kyoto primer this week.) Some are more consequential than others. Some, under the terms of the treaty, won’t have to do much of anything. (China and India, for example...
by Gil Friend | Feb 11, 2005 | Sustainability
Miniature Earth is a fine (and multi-lingual) flash animation renderingny Allysson Lucca of Donella Meadows’ ‘If the earth were a village of 1000 people…’ essay. It’s worth revisiting — often enough to stay attuned to the social...
