Bright Green Living Wiki

Some of the folks from the often exceptional WorldChanging blog are cranking up Bright Green Living Wiki: We all know that our way of life is unsustainable. What we lack is information on how to live better, organized and presented in such a way that we can actually...

Green lodging and car rentals

EvRental: Great concept; miserable web experience for their “reserve online” option. Are you listening, Jakob Nielsen? From State of California’s Green Lodging program to reduce environmental impact of state employee travel, but perhaps useful for...

Risk, opportunity, and CSR reporting

Also new on the web today, SustainAbility’s biennial assessment of the best in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, Risk & Opportunity: Best Practice in Non-Financial Reporting. And with that, our accompanying analysis asking the critical...

And on the Gil Friend front

As noted a while back, I’ve been in full-tilt sustainability conference mode for the last few weeks. Profitable Sustainability (Seattle), Sustainable Resources (Boulder), SRI in the Rockies (Keystone), SOL Sustainabilty Forum (Dearborn). All very interesting and...

Those Brilliant Fall Outfits May

Those Brilliant Fall Outfits May Be Saving Trees. As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for. By By CARL ZIMMER. [The New York Times > Science] The scientists do agree on one thing:...