by Gil Friend | Aug 13, 2003 | Sustainability
What the ‘balanced aquarium’ can teach us about running an industrial economy: Natural systems use light to pump nutrients into the trophic web, and the web stores them in biomass, loses them to the air or sediments, or exports them to other systems....
by Gil Friend | Aug 12, 2003 | Sustainability
Automakers Drop Suits Over Clean-Air Regulation. Dropping lawsuits that fight emissions regulations, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler will instead produce millions of low-emission vehicles, like gasoline and electric hybrids. By Danny Hakim. [New York Times:...
by Gil Friend | Aug 11, 2003 | Sustainability
From George Mokray: Proving that smart environmental policies can actually save corporations money, a large grocery chain in Virginia is now converting food waste to compost. Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc is making a double profit, selling the compost to customers,...
by Gil Friend | Aug 8, 2003 | Sustainability
[ENS]: China is now at war. It is not invading armies that are claiming its territory, but expanding deserts. Old deserts are advancing and new ones are forming, like guerrilla forces striking unexpectedly, forcing Beijing to fight on several fronts. And worse, the...
by Gil Friend | Aug 7, 2003 | Sustainability
Baseline. The Dell of the auto industry? Introducing: BTO. ‘At this site, the company he chairs plans to build highly customized vehicles starting at $35,000, by outsourcing just about all aspects of their construction to suppliers whom he...
by Gil Friend | Aug 7, 2003 | Sustainability
[Design Council]: About: Sustainability Sustainable design is everything good design ought to be, delivering the best (social, environmental and economic) performance or result for the least (social, environmental and economic) cost. It is the strategic use of design...
