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Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Thursday, August 26, 2004

[The Motley Fool]: It's Easy Being Green. Companies can profit, not sacrifice, when protecting the environment.

With these kinds of results, it's hard to argue for any buildings that aren't environmentally friendly.

I guess if Motley Fool gets it, this must be penetrating the mainstream. Yet somehow, our work on this planet is not yet done. I was at yet another meeting last night where yet another otherwise intelligent person went on about the "tradeoff between profits and environment."

Bogus. Utterly bogus. They used to say that about quality. They used to say it about safety.  The real tradeoff isn't between environment and profit; we need both, and we can have both. The real tradeoff is between brains, leadership and execution, on the one hand, and habit, complacency and failing to watch the numbers, on the other.

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[BuzzMachine]

Loved this phrase in Om Malik's coverage of the big injection of VC bucks into Vonage today:

Citron said Vonage was cash-flow positive excluding the costs of acquiring new customers, according to the newsreport.
That's like saying the company is cash-flow positive, excluding expenses.
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