by Gil Friend | Sep 24, 2004 | Sustainability
The next six weeks are packed with travel and speaking gigs, beginning with the Profitable Sustainability conference at the Seattle Westin Sept 26-29 — where I’ll be delivering the closing keynote on “The State of Sustainability” (as well as a...
by Gil Friend | Aug 20, 2004 | Sustainability
Sewage waters a tenth of world’s irrigated crops [New Scientist] Nothing wrong with that in principle, of course. Closing the farm to city to farm nutrient cycle makes good sense. (Recalls to me my masters thesis, back in the long ago, looking at the potential...
by Gil Friend | Aug 8, 2004 | Uncategorized
[ZDnet]: By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work. This is the begining of the unfolding of the ‘B24B’ vision charted by...
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 | Uncategorized
The Beyond Budgeting Project]: Budgeting, as most corporations practice it, should be abolished. That may sound like a radical proposition, but it is merely the final (and decisive) action in a long running battle to change organizations from centralized hierarchies...
