by Gil Friend | Aug 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I remember the first time I asked the question. It was ten years ago. I was sitting in a private conference room with an executive of a large biotech company. (Don’t bother checking my client list; you won’t find this engagement listed there.) She had...
by Gil Friend | Aug 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ten days ago I told you “I’m just not able to do it. I’ve tried. I can’t. Can you?” —and wrote about my challenges with using the word “sustainability”—and with giving it up! I recounted some explorations with options like...
by Gil Friend | Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Guardian Sustainable Business has launched in the US, and has named me #7 (tied in that position with Jeremy Heimans) on their list of the the 30 most influential sustainability voices in America. I’ve had the honor to write the intro in strategy+business for an...
by Gil Friend | Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
A few months ago I wrote a series of posts about “beyond sustainability”—decrying (or at least bemoaning) the flabbiness and vectorlessness of the term (as Braungart, Ehrenfeld, McDonough and others have been wont to do), the erosion of its essential and...
by Gil Friend | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
OK, now it’s official! The sharable economy has arrived! How do I know? Easy: Tom Friedman told me! Breathless as ever, he offers an engaging genesis tale of AirBnB, and concludes “This is powerful.” And indeed it is—though it’s not a new idea...
by Gil Friend | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s been hard to write or think about much else this week besides America’s profound racial divide and political dysfunction. Whatever your perspective on the George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case, it’s clear that the racial fault lines in this...
