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Gill Friend: The Truth About Green Business and the Potential for Jobs and Prosperity

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2009

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Truth About Green Business: The Potential for Jobs and Prosperity Gil Friend, Founder/CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.; Author, The Truth About Green Business Running a profitable business that takes care of the environment, provides meaningful jobs, and helps the community is an oxymoron, right? Not so fast. Friend suggests that green business practices are good for business and the world. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on August 18, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

Pet jevity.

0:05.1

You know, like longevity, but for your pets long and healthy life?

0:08.4

They have no upper age limit for dogs or cats.

0:11.1

Wow.

0:11.9

They insure hundreds of thousands of pores and have 24-7 access to vet video calls.

0:17.7

Look for pet jevity wherever you shop online for insurance.

0:22.0

The vet video calls if your pet is in need of urgent medical assistance, contact your local

0:25.9

vet immediately. Visit petjavity.co.com.uk for full details.

0:32.2

Good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California.

0:36.1

I am Carrie Curtis, a member of the club's

0:38.3

Environment and Natural Resources Member-led Forum and your chair for today. We also welcome our listening audience on the radio and the internet, and we invite everyone to visit us online at commonwealth club.org.

0:50.3

And now it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker.

0:59.6

Gil Friend is president and CEO of Natural Logic Incorporated.

1:06.3

He's a noted thought leader on sustainable business with more than 37 years of experience in business, research, and policy.

1:19.1

His clients have included Agilent Technologies, Oberg Resorts, Coca-Cola, Dean Foods, Hewlett-Packard, Levi Strauss, Nike, Sun, and William Sonoma.

1:27.7

He is a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance and serves on the boards and advisory councils of too many organizations for me to name.

1:33.0

He has written more than 100 articles, contributed chapters to several books, and is the author of The Truth About Green Business and the forthcoming Risk fiduciary Responsibility and the

1:39.0

laws of nature. He holds an MS in systems ecology from Antioch University, a black belt in Iquito,

1:46.9

and is a seasoned practitioner of the Natural Step, a Sustainability Management Program.

1:54.0

Please join me in welcoming Gilfriend.

2:08.5

Thank you very much, Carrie, and thank you everybody for joining us tonight.

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