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Created: Feb 03, 2008
Updated: Jun 24, 2008
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Gil Friend
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Microbial Ecology
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(1077 people) | Life Cycle Assessment
(1169 people) | Business Firm and Organization Sustainability
(3029 people) | Greenhouse Gases
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(2463 people) | Renewable Energy
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(2441 people) | Emissions Trading
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(684 people) | Finance Policies and Institutions
(675 people) | Democracy and Civil Society
(1960 people) | Energy Flow in Ecosystems
(869 people) | Socially Responsible Investment
(2763 people) | Social Entrepreneurship
(3677 people) | Alternative Medicine
(2846 people) | Sustainability and Technology
(2127 people) | Water and Sustainable Development
(1913 people) | Property Rights
(421 people) | Sustainable Minerals Industry
(589 people) | Ecological Change and Emerging Diseases
(671 people) | Global Food Supply and Sustainability
(2445 people) | Religion and Ecology
(1198 people) | Globalization Impacts
(2072 people) | Human Rights and Natural Law
(797 people) | Sustainable Energy Development
(3890 people) | Information and Communication Technology
(1771 people) | Local Food Systems
(2860 people) | Human Rights and Civil Liberties
(2052 people) | Urban Forestry
(772 people) | Appropriate Technology
(1552 people) | Sustainable Communities
(4078 people) | Agroecology
(1167 people) | Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
(2676 people) | Precautionary Principle
(459 people) | Ecolabeling and Certification
(1239 people) | Soil Ecology
(781 people) | Restoration Ecology
(1214 people) | Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle
(667 people) | Pollution Prevention and Reduction
(1169 people) | Permaculture
(3266 people) | Ecological Footprint
(2224 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(4018 people) | Sustainability Education
(4209 people) | Industrial Ecology
(781 people) | Urban Ecology
(1650 people) | Green Roofs
(1593 people) | Media and Communication
(2713 people) | Internet
(2558 people) | Sustainable Production
(2468 people) | Climate Change
(4731 people) | Sustainable Fishing
(980 people) | Biomimicry
(1618 people) | Energy Policy
(1094 people) | Ecosystem Services
(1326 people) | Responsible Business Practices
(2983 people) | Peace and Peace Building
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About
Gil Friend is founder, president & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, providing advisory services in strategy, design, operations and information systems that help clients build economic advantage through exceptional environmental performance – Sustainable performance you can take to the bank™
Clients have included Agilent Technologies, Ex'pression Center for New Media, General Mills, Gilead Sciences, Granite Construction, Green Mountain Energy, Hewlett Packard, Nike, Odwalla, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sun Microsystems, the US General Services Administration and many others.
A systems ecologist and business strategist with 35 years experience in business, communications and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow Magazine called him "One of the country's leading environmental management consultants — a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."
He is a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council, and serves on San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Clean Tech Advisory Council. He was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and was Co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development "think-and-do tanks," where he pioneered the current "green roof" trend more than 30 years ago.
Friend lectures widely on business strategy and environmental policy, and currently writes "The New Bottom Line," a monthly column on business strategy; a "Sustainability Sundays" column for WorldChanging.com; an irregular weblog on strategic sustainability and other matters of interest at http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend. He is a contributor to the best selling book WorldChanging; and author of the forthcoming book: Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and the Laws of Nature.
He holds an MS in Systems Ecology from Antioch University, a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of "The Natural Step" environmental management system.
Clients have included Agilent Technologies, Ex'pression Center for New Media, General Mills, Gilead Sciences, Granite Construction, Green Mountain Energy, Hewlett Packard, Nike, Odwalla, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sun Microsystems, the US General Services Administration and many others.
A systems ecologist and business strategist with 35 years experience in business, communications and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow Magazine called him "One of the country's leading environmental management consultants — a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."
He is a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council, and serves on San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Clean Tech Advisory Council. He was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and was Co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development "think-and-do tanks," where he pioneered the current "green roof" trend more than 30 years ago.
Friend lectures widely on business strategy and environmental policy, and currently writes "The New Bottom Line," a monthly column on business strategy; a "Sustainability Sundays" column for WorldChanging.com; an irregular weblog on strategic sustainability and other matters of interest at http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend. He is a contributor to the best selling book WorldChanging; and author of the forthcoming book: Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and the Laws of Nature.
He holds an MS in Systems Ecology from Antioch University, a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of "The Natural Step" environmental management system.
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