by Gil Friend | Dec 2, 2005 | Sustainability
Barry Commoner coined the phrase ‘linguistic detoxification’ decades ago, to describe that bureaucratic propensity to declare messes cleaned up, rather than actually clean them up. I used it in Natural Logic’s autumn newsletter, posted a couple...
by Gil Friend | Dec 1, 2005 | Sustainability
We’ve just posted and shipped Natural Logic’s twice or three times a year review, summarizing what we’ve been thinking and doing over the last six months. Things like Rating Sustainable Business (How good is yours?), Benchmarking Industry...
by Gil Friend | Sep 20, 2005 | Sustainability
A brilliant Jamais Cascio of the exceptional WorldChanging held forth tonight, at Global Business Network on the usual WorldChanging theme: a better world is here. After setting some context with the bad news about the depth of the challenges that global humanity...
by Gil Friend | Jul 4, 2005 | Sustainability
In celebration of their 3,000th post, our friends at WorldChanging.com have been posting contributions from guest writers, and asked me to be one. They ran this piece which I wrote with my wife (and director of Natural Logic), Jane Byrd.As the recent World Environment...
by Gil Friend | Jun 5, 2005 | Sustainability
I know a lot of people who aren’t pleased with The New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman’s ‘world is flat’ perspective on globalization (nor with his views on Iraq). For my part, I sometimes find him glib, too focused on a clever turn of...
