by Gil Friend | Aug 7, 2004 | Sustainability
[Grist]: Are you my mother? Scientists Enable Salmon to Birth Trout Scientists in Japan have succeeded in causing salmon to give birth to trout. Yep, you read that correctly: By transplanting the ‘primordial germ cells’ — specialized tissue in...
by Gil Friend | Aug 6, 2004 | Sustainability
In fact now there are markets. The Chicago Climate Exchange, the world’s first multi-national and multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhose gas emissions is open for business. And The New Business Climate, a new book from Rocky Mountain...
by Gil Friend | Aug 6, 2004 | Sustainability
Meanwhile, across the Bay at Merrit College, Aug 5-8: EcoWave2004, sponsored by the San Francisco Institute of Architecture. The hits just keep on comin’
by Gil Friend | Aug 6, 2004 | Sustainability
The Natural Step hosted an intriguing sustainable design summit this morning, part of their initiatives in that direction to get more design firms taking sustainability issues into account. Luke Williams of frog design took us through part of their systematic...
by Gil Friend | Aug 4, 2004 | Sustainability
[ThinkCycle]: ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open-source design innovation, with...
by Gil Friend | Aug 4, 2004 | Sustainability
Speaking of ‘sufficient goals’: There are 2,800 Japanese companies committed to achieve zero emissions and half of them have already eliminated all forms of landfill. – Gunther Pauli, Global ZERI Network
