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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG
@gpfriend.bsky.social
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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.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · Nov 28
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
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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...
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 11d
68% More!

"California now has 201,180 public and shared EV charger ports available across the state — 68% more than the number of gasoline nozzles."
electrek.co/2025/09/26/c...

#energysky
California now has 68% more EV charger ports than gas nozzles
California tops 200,000 public EV charger ports, now outnumbering gas nozzles statewide, as 94% of residents live within 10 minutes of one.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 16h
Oh, fk.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 16h
A fairly pragmatic unpacking of the Gaza agreement.
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Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Explained — Genius or Madness?
YouTube video by Ryan McBeth
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 17h
Oh my…
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 17h
"With Trump allies taking over CBS, TikTok, and possibly CNN to create a media monster poised to infect minds in a way that will challenge our ability to approximate reality, which has already been decimated, in ways most of us cannot yet imagine."
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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 17h
Which will bubble will pop first—AI or Trump?

Looks like Trump has taken the lead, again.
Which will pop first—AI or Trump?
Two enormous bubbles threaten everything around us.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 17h
Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, who has not been terribly impressed with the current Congress (to say the least), has a few words of appreciation for a small sliver of light and perhaps even independence.
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A Rare Sign of Life in Congress || Peter Zeihan
YouTube video by Zeihan on Geopolitics
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 22h
Maybe…
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 23h
Categories are leaky. (But we gotta have em, don’t we.) All generalizations are false. And here’s Rebecca Solnit with more artful and nuanced insight. Once again.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....
Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 23h
Categories are leaky. (But we gotta have em, don’t we.) All generalizations are false. And here’s Rebecca Solnit with more artful and nuanced insight. Once again.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 23h
Please remember that one of the things authoritarians hate the most is being made fun of. So please be sure not to do that. M’kay?
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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 1d
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d
Minneapolis, 1903
The first automobile theft in the city has been reported. That shows that people are beginning to have confidence in the ability of the machines to travel into the next state without breaking down. --Minneapolis Daily Times, 31 Mar 1903
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 1d
Even better: emoflexibility
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 1d
Are you a purpose-driven exec hitting a wall? Will you be at SustainableBrands next week? I’m offering a complementary ontological coaching session for 3 of you. No cost. No obligation. No net. Interested? DM me: What’s your wall? What do you think—or hope—might be on the other side of it?
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 1d
Dear Speaker Mike Johnson:

SINCE YOU LOVE WORK REQUIREMENTS, I PROPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CONGRESS. DO YOUR JOB OR NOT GET PAID! BRING THE HOUSE IN SESSION. THIS IS DESPICABLE!
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 1d
Not what [he thought] his instructions were.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 1d
“This is exactly the moment for people to stand up. And do I see enough people doing it? No, I don’t. It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.”

Thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov!
JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2d
Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

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USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups
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BB-3 🟦🟧🇬🇧🇺🇸 💙 @bb-3.bsky.social · 3d
So many more cities should do this all over the world
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d
“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 2d
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 2d
One possibility (always) is to not freak out until you have to. :)
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Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social · 2d
Her masquerade was over long ago
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2d
How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.
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