Best of Earth911 Podcast: Sustainability Pioneer Gil Friend on Living Between Worlds

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Sustainability Pioneer Gil Friend on Living Between Worlds

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If environmentally accountable, sustainable enterprise had been baseball, my visitor Gil Friend can be as acquainted a reputation as Babe Ruth. In 2011, Gil was named to the primary class of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Sustainability Hall of Fame. He is the founder and CEO of Natural Logic, a sustainable enterprise technique consultancy, and Critical Path Capital, a personal fairness agency, in addition to a latest addition to Earth911’s board of advisors. Since the Nineteen Seventies, when he found the work of Buckminster Fuller, he has labored to extend consciousness concerning the environmental harm created by our extractive lifestyle, and encourage authorities and companies to take motion.

Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic and Critical Path Capital, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Gil plumbed the surprising as a pioneer of concepts we now take without any consideration, from the rooftop farm to agricultural policies he developed for California Governor Jerry Brown through the Nineteen Eighties. During the 2010s, he was the primary chief sustainability officer for the town of Palo Alto, California. His month-to-month Living Between Worlds dialog, a Zoom discussion board, connects involved folks to debate the transition from the wasteful financial system that created the local weather disaster to a brand new, rising however nonetheless undefined society. Watch Living Between Worlds on YouTube. To study extra about Gil and Natural Logic, go to natlogic.com.

This podcast initially aired on February 27, 2023.