by administrator | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sent to the CalPERS Board, with regard to the 3/18/19 meeting discussion of: Sustainable investment & CalPERS Divestment Overview. If you want to send your own, the address is [email protected] Dear CalPERS Board, I am a CalPERS member, based on my service...
by administrator | Feb 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Now that I’ve wrapped up my five year “secondment” as the first Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Palo Alto, I’m back in the saddle at Natural Logic (with a little side gig as Expert in Residence at Presidio Graduate School), and ready to...
by administrator | Jun 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
[[This article was first posted at GreenBiz.com May 22, 2018.] First in a two-part series on business risk and strategic duty.My sustainability work over the past several decades has focused on value — discovering, generating and capturing the often-hidden value that...
by administrator | Jun 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
[This article was first posted at GreenBiz.com February 8, 2018.] It’s pitch dark. There’s no moon. You can’t find your map. The ground shifts beneath your feet. You grope tentatively to detect sure footing, or the edge of a precipice. Welcome to the Anthropocene. Now...
by Gil Friend | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
As the days once again begin to lengthen, and the candles nearly fulfill their promise, and the possibility of rebirth dawns, and the rising of the light lifts our souls and rekindles our hopes, we wish for you, in the very challenging time before us, a year full of...
by Gil Friend | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
What if Bloomberg, Branson and Grantham came together to buyout the coal industry, close and clean up the mines, retrain workers and accelerate the expansion of renewable energy? (That’s the subhead for the slightly abridged version of this provocation that ran...
