by Gil Friend | Oct 20, 2004 | Sustainability
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. – Tom Robbins Thank you David Allen. (He’s writing about personal...
by Gil Friend | Oct 20, 2004 | Sustainability
[Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)]: An analysis by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that without BART traffic jams from Bay Area bridges would spill back to most of the East Bay and San Francisco street networks. Drivers would spend one or two hours just...
by Gil Friend | Oct 19, 2004 | Sustainability
[Earth Policy Institute]: World production of solar cells–which convert sunlight directly into electricity–soared to 742 megawatts (MW) in 2003, a jump of 32 percent in just one year. With solar cell production growing by 27 percent annually over the past...
by Gil Friend | Sep 24, 2004 | Sustainability
Before I forget: there’s a new ‘New Bottom Line’ article posted at the Natural Logic web site, musing about What is it about ‘Zero Waste’? All I want to know is: When are we going to get as smart as a chicken?
by Gil Friend | Sep 24, 2004 | Sustainability
The next six weeks are packed with travel and speaking gigs, beginning with the Profitable Sustainability conference at the Seattle Westin Sept 26-29 — where I’ll be delivering the closing keynote on “The State of Sustainability” (as well as a...
by Gil Friend | Sep 23, 2004 | Sustainability
[Christian Science Monitor]: Efficiency could be the cheapest and easiest way to wean America from foreign oil. Rather than comment, I’ve excerpted many of the highlights — a great collection of data points to use in building the business case with your...
