by Gil Friend | Aug 1, 2004 | Sustainability
The San Jose Mercury-News printed my letter to the editor today, in response to their recent article on green building, but they abridged it. Here’s the full text (including some references): To the Editor: Your otherwise excellent article, Going Green in Los...
by Gil Friend | Jul 27, 2004 | Sustainability
[Grist]: BUSTING THEIR ASSETS – Analysts Warn Automakers of Coming Climate-Change Risks I’ve long held that the market — once turned loose — would have impacts on corporate environmental practice that regulators only dreamed of. Just last week,...
by Gil Friend | Jul 27, 2004 | Sustainability
The June issue of my New Bottom Line perspectives on business and environment — How High the Moon – The challenge of ‘sufficient’ goals — asks: How does your organization set its sustainability goals? Are they sufficient to the challenge...
by Gil Friend | Jun 27, 2004 | Sustainability
[Bob Hughes]: I WANT TO MAKE A CASE for thinking of narratives not as a paths, but as three-dimensional spaces, or landscapes, through which we can take paths. Intriguing stuff. I suspect, from the perspective of permaculture, regenerative &...
by Gil Friend | Jun 22, 2004 | Sustainability
[Jon Carroll]: Not only is he back from vacation, he’s railing about packaging. That’s the dirty secret of packaging: It works. We may be brooding about excess and waste and the future of the planet now, but when we get to the store, it’ll be all...
by Gil Friend | Jun 18, 2004 | Sustainability
[Guardian]: In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell, says ‘No one can be comfortable at the prospect of continuing to pump out the amounts of carbon dioxide that we are pumping out at present … with...
