Gil Friend - Sustainability OG
@gpfriend.bsky.social
Advisor. Board member. Coach. Speaker.
I post about #sustainability, #climate, #strategy, #policy, #employeeOwnership.
And what it might be like if we if we did business—& everything else—as though we actually belong to the living world.
Because we do.
I post about #sustainability, #climate, #strategy, #policy, #employeeOwnership.
And what it might be like if we if we did business—& everything else—as though we actually belong to the living world.
Because we do.
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Gil Friend - Natural Logic, Inc. | LinkedIn
I help world-changers change worlds. How? I ADVISE companies, COACH leaders, and INSPIRE… · Experience: Natural Logic, Inc. · Education: Pluralistic Networks · Location: Berkeley · 500+ connections on...
LinkedIn.com
Greetings! ex-@gfriend on X, flying here now!
Find my longer posts at LinkedIn.com/in/gfriend & Substack.com/gfriend
Strategic advisory: pages.natlogic.com/home
Executive coaching for world changers: pages.natlogic.com/coach
Book a Keynote: bit.ly/GilSpeaks
Talk with "me" 24/7: delphi.ai/gfriend
Find my longer posts at LinkedIn.com/in/gfriend & Substack.com/gfriend
Strategic advisory: pages.natlogic.com/home
Executive coaching for world changers: pages.natlogic.com/coach
Book a Keynote: bit.ly/GilSpeaks
Talk with "me" 24/7: delphi.ai/gfriend
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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I also recommend following @carbonbrief.org's handy "negotiating text tracker" here. They always have such useful tools and explainers!
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I also recommend following @carbonbrief.org's handy "negotiating text tracker" here. They always have such useful tools and explainers!
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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“I don’t know and I don’t care” should be the new MAGA motto. So accurate. Says it all.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“I don’t know and I don’t care” should be the new MAGA motto. So accurate. Says it all.
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Had a lot of fun showing climate-fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson a scene from the climate play Kyoto that reverberates precisely with what Saudi Arabia was doing this week at #cop30 in Brazil. Watch the full #SustainWhat show below. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Had a lot of fun showing climate-fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson a scene from the climate play Kyoto that reverberates precisely with what Saudi Arabia was doing this week at #cop30 in Brazil. Watch the full #SustainWhat show below. 1/
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“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible.” open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible.” open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...
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Join me LIVE at noon with #clifi author Kim Stanley Robinson, just back from the fiery climate treaty talks in Belem Brazil. Here's fresh security cam footage. Viewing links in post below (also post questions for KSR if you can't join us live). #sustainwhat #cop30 Details ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join me LIVE at noon with #clifi author Kim Stanley Robinson, just back from the fiery climate treaty talks in Belem Brazil. Here's fresh security cam footage. Viewing links in post below (also post questions for KSR if you can't join us live). #sustainwhat #cop30 Details ⤵️
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Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Pedaling backwards as fast as we can. :-(
(While China and the rest of the world race forward into a new energy future.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c... (gift post)
(While China and the rest of the world race forward into a new energy future.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c... (gift post)
Energy Department Reorganization Reflects Shift Away From Renewable Energy
The reorganization reflects the ongoing shift in the federal government’s energy priorities: less renewable energy, more fossil fuels.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Pedaling backwards as fast as we can. :-(
(While China and the rest of the world race forward into a new energy future.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c... (gift post)
(While China and the rest of the world race forward into a new energy future.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c... (gift post)
Why your boss, not you, should be replaced by an AI - BBC Science Focus Magazine apple.news/AN2uxvB-cSra7xkU4...
Why your boss, not you, should be replaced by an AI
Humans are emotional, irrational and biased. Hardly an ideal recipe for running a company. So would an AI do a better job?
apple.news
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Why your boss, not you, should be replaced by an AI - BBC Science Focus Magazine apple.news/AN2uxvB-cSra7xkU4...
I guess the Chamber of Commerce just likes the fossils more than it likes the insurance industry…and all the rest of us.
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - ground.news/article/federal-...
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - ground.news/article/federal-...
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday paused a California law set to take effect in January requiring large companies to report every two years on how climate change could hurt them financially.
ground.news
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I guess the Chamber of Commerce just likes the fossils more than it likes the insurance industry…and all the rest of us.
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - ground.news/article/federal-...
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - ground.news/article/federal-...
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
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Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit
Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
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1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
You are a random Dem running in 2026 -- say, for some House seat in some swing state. You're on local media. You're asked: "what are three reasons that energy prices are rising & what are three things you'd like to do to bring them down?" What's your answer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
Watching @maddow.bsky.social report tonight on the “shambolic,” illegal, incompetent, and downright cruel actions of ICE, CPB, and the rest the Trumpers, here’s a #periodicreminder to all Federal officials and employees: POTUS may have immunity. But. You. Don’t.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Watching @maddow.bsky.social report tonight on the “shambolic,” illegal, incompetent, and downright cruel actions of ICE, CPB, and the rest the Trumpers, here’s a #periodicreminder to all Federal officials and employees: POTUS may have immunity. But. You. Don’t.
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Let’s be clear: The DOJ has already been subpoenaed. They’re legally obligated to release the full Epstein files—and they’re still dragging their feet.
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Let’s be clear: The DOJ has already been subpoenaed. They’re legally obligated to release the full Epstein files—and they’re still dragging their feet.
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
"Existence is proof of the possible."
Can you imagine YOUR city like this? Why not, more to the point.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Existence is proof of the possible."
Maybe it’s not all that complicated.
The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/11/13/t...
The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work - CleanTechnica
A concise roadmap for decarbonization: overbuild renewables, expand grids, electrify heat & transport, fix industry, cut fossil subsidies, and ignore hype.
cleantechnica.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Maybe it’s not all that complicated.
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Current govt and corp climate pledges will jointly cut global emissions by 12%. The cut isn't enough for the 1.5C threshold, but it's encouraging. The Climate Pledge, where members agree to accountability metrics, bodes well. But, actions—not agreements—are needed.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
Corporate Climate Promises Are Starting To Matter. The Next Test Is Whether They Can Hold.
The newest U.N. climate report shows something rare: progress. Corporate and national pledges could cut emissions by 12%. The next challenge is durability.
www.forbes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Current govt and corp climate pledges will jointly cut global emissions by 12%. The cut isn't enough for the 1.5C threshold, but it's encouraging. The Climate Pledge, where members agree to accountability metrics, bodes well. But, actions—not agreements—are needed.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
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Opportune time to say that, contrary to popular(?), fossil-fueled beliefs, it isn't gas, gas ,gas.
It's ~⅓ efficiency, ⅓ renewables, ⅓ coal-to-gas switch that made the crawl back happen.
gwagner.com/decomposition
It's ~⅓ efficiency, ⅓ renewables, ⅓ coal-to-gas switch that made the crawl back happen.
gwagner.com/decomposition
Factoring in the forgotten role of renewables in CO2 emission trends…
by Kristina Mohlin, Jonathan R. Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider, and Gernot Wagner
gwagner.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Opportune time to say that, contrary to popular(?), fossil-fueled beliefs, it isn't gas, gas ,gas.
It's ~⅓ efficiency, ⅓ renewables, ⅓ coal-to-gas switch that made the crawl back happen.
gwagner.com/decomposition
It's ~⅓ efficiency, ⅓ renewables, ⅓ coal-to-gas switch that made the crawl back happen.
gwagner.com/decomposition
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But what about China? We can't until China! Look at China!
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
But what about China? We can't until China! Look at China!
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
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At the UN climate conference in Belém, sentiment is growing that US president Donald Trump’s boycott of these talks is, in fact, a blessing. “I actually think it is a good thing” that the US didn’t send a delegation to COP30, said Christiana Figueres, a key architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Christiana Figueres: Why The Climate Fight Is Far From Over
Figueres talks about how and why the climate fight can still be won.
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
At the UN climate conference in Belém, sentiment is growing that US president Donald Trump’s boycott of these talks is, in fact, a blessing. “I actually think it is a good thing” that the US didn’t send a delegation to COP30, said Christiana Figueres, a key architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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What’s Happening at COP30 - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
What’s Happening at COP30 - Inside Climate News
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and climate science reporter Bob Berwyn as they explain the key issues setting the agenda at this year’s U.N. climate change conference.
insideclimatenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What’s Happening at COP30 - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
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Fossil fuel cars are stranded assets. EVs are pulling ahead of internal combustion engine vehicles in the used market. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carscoops.com/2025/11/evs-...
EVs Now Sell Faster Than Gas Cars In The Used Market | Carscoops
Used car prices are climbing again in 2025, and buyers are slowing down, though not when it comes to EVs
www.carscoops.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fossil fuel cars are stranded assets. EVs are pulling ahead of internal combustion engine vehicles in the used market. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carscoops.com/2025/11/evs-...