Gil Friend
15th annual Chung-Watson Free Lecture Series
in Business Ethics
We were honored to have Gil Friend as our esteemed speaker for the 15th annual Chung-Watson Lecture Series in Business Ethics on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 from 3-5 pm at the Kate Buchanan Room at HSU.
He spoke on "The State of 'Sustainability'"
How we've reached the tipping point, it seems. Companies of all kinds--some that you'd least expect--are embracing sustainability and competing to set more aggressive goals. Capital is flooding into clean technology: Europe, and even China, is ratcheting up performance standards..How well is the marriage of business and sustainability really doing? The good news, the bad news, and the critical success factors.
Gil Friend was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and played key or founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as EcoNet, GreenLine, the California Office of Appropriate Technology, and Buck minster Fuller's "World Game". He was a co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development think-tanks.
