by Gil Friend | Aug 22, 2004 | Sustainability
[Sam Moore]: Over the last 5 years, several companies have been working to replace the non organic t-shirts used as advertising by organic food companies, with organic product, only to be told that the garments are “too expensive” verses traditional...
by Gil Friend | Aug 20, 2004 | Sustainability
Sewage waters a tenth of world’s irrigated crops [New Scientist] Nothing wrong with that in principle, of course. Closing the farm to city to farm nutrient cycle makes good sense. (Recalls to me my masters thesis, back in the long ago, looking at the potential...
by Gil Friend | Aug 18, 2004 | Sustainability
[New Bottom Line]: Sustainable business – a vision statement This latest article in my New Bottom Line series lays out a business vision for ‘getting beyond mitigating the problem, makingæthings less bad, slowing the rate of decline of theæregenerative...
by Gil Friend | Aug 13, 2004 | Sustainability
[SF Business Times, via MSNBC]: Oakland, other cities dig into ‘economic gardening’ Economic gardening emphasizes nurturing the most promising 3 to 5 percent of companies within a city rather than looking to lure large companies from outside city limits....
by Gil Friend | Aug 13, 2004 | Sustainability
[Joho the Blog]: Standard dissatisfaction For those of you laboring in the vineyards of ISO 14001 EMS development, here’s a bright note to muse on: The ISO organization – the global purveyor of standards – has issued a new standard: A new ISO...
by Gil Friend | Aug 12, 2004 | Sustainability
(or what Rabbi Arthur Waskow prefers to call ‘global scorching.’) [WorldChanging]: The well-known socialist rag Business Week is even making global warming its cover story this week, and the article makes good reading for anyone interested in the business...
