The first event of the year hosted by the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado was a sold-out event! In case you missed out, check out the full length video here! It was a great evening with one incredible panel: Hunter Lovins, Governor Bill Ritter, Senator Tim Wirth, and Bill Becker!
The road after Paris climate accord involves lots of local, hard work
Mountain Town News Allen Best January 2016 An agreement was struck at the Paris climate talks that may in the future be seen as a turning point in the effort to stall the worst of climate change impacts. But it wasn’t easy, as former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth illustrated in a story he told Tuesday in Denver. Wirth has been engaged in climate change issues since 1974, when he was first elected to Congress, and then later, in 1997, was the chief U.S. negotiator at Kyoto. Paris succeeded largely because of two reasons, he said. One was the decision...
Fear
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins December 2015 This article has been submitted as part of the Natural Capital Coalition’s series of blogs on natural capital by Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Professor of Sustainable Management, Bard MBA and Time Magazine Millennium “Hero of the Planet”. We’ve all felt it. Anxiety before an exam; the realization that we are about to be hurt, the sick feeling when kids with Kalashnikovs kill hundreds in the streets of Paris. Once, as the crew boss on a fire crew, I was assigned to protect a house against a fast moving brush fire. Deployed...
Playing Catch Up: The U.S. is Losing the Renewable Energy Race
Kendall Kraus November 2015 No one enjoys playing catch up. Why work twice as hard after falling behind if you are already at the top of the ladder? Right now, the United States is at the top of the global economic ladder and has been since the twentieth century. However, the U.S. is vulnerable to losing this first-place position due to its lack of progress implementing renewable energy. Germany is well on it’s way to using 100% renewable energy. Just this June, Germany succeeded in producing 78% of its energy from renewables, beating their previous record of 74%. Germany is...
23 November 2015 | Denver, CO | Encyclical to Action
If you missed out, you can watch the full length video of our Encyclical to Action event here! Thank you to everyone who came out and participated in this wonderful event. We look forward to continuing these dialogues and workshops in 2016
23 November 2015 | Denver, CO | Encyclical to Action
Hear what our amazing panel had to say in these one-on-one interviews!
23 November 2015 | Denver, CO | Encyclical to Action
This was our first in a series of dialogues aimed at taking Pope Francis’ Encyclical to Action. It was a wonderful evening with an amazing panel of speakers. We all went home motivated to craft the strategy necessary for change!
5 November 2015 | United Kingdom | Disruptive Innovation Festival
Hunter Lovins was part of the Disruptive Innovation Festival, hosted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Watch her webcast on Regenerative Economics and the Circular Economy here!
28 October 2015 | Boulder, CO |Regenerative Economics
Hunter Lovins kicked off the “Future of Humanity” series at Chautauqua Community House with this talk on Regenerative Economics. It was a great evening! Video by Michael Kosacoff, Highland City Club
28 October 2015 | Boulder, CO | The Future of Humanity
L. Hunter Lovins: “Regenerative Economics” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.