by Gil Friend | Feb 1, 2005 | Sustainability
[Times OnLine]: We are witnessing nothing less than the geopoliticalisation of the world‰s oil and gas industry. Governments rather than traditional commercial enterprises are taking control. And those governments have interests hostile to America‰s. This is not the...
by Gil Friend | Feb 1, 2005 | Sustainability
[WorldChanging]: The Global 100 is a new annual ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, unveiled last week at Davos. Their definition of corporate sustainability is pretty loose…[but]…just as governmental lip-service to ideas like the...
by Gil Friend | Jan 24, 2005 | Sustainability
Contra CafÚ is a uniquely smooth and full-bodied coffee grown by former Nicaraguan Contras. And here I was thinking it was all about organic, peasant cooperative, shade grown,and fair traded uniquely smooth and full-bodied coffee. (I don’t even drink coffee...
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2005 | Sustainability
And (he notes modestly), WorldChanging also features my biweekly contribution on business and sustainabilty to their ‘Sustainability Sundays’ series, this time on the increasingly attractive economics of green buildings: ‘Rating buildings in this way...
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2005 | Sustainability
Also at WorldChanging today: The group EcoCity Cleveland has published a terrific overview of what cities are doing to make themselves more sustainable.
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2005 | Sustainability
Another collection of gems — as usual — at WorldChanging.com. Alex Steffens muses about The Kind of Problem an Automobile Is: The other day I was talking with a friend about the ecological problems caused by the car, and the phrase popped out of my mouth,...