Hunter’s Homework Assignments

ISSP Conference | Wisdom Panel Denver, CO 13 November 2014 During the ISSP Conference Wisdom Panel last Thursday, November 13th, if your pen wasn’t flying fast enough you might have missed some of the books, videos, ideas and leaders Hunter thinks worth checking out. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Videos: Charlie Rose interviews Jeremy Grantham long version on hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/466390 youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llSP61r-pfE Russell Brand vs. Jeremy Paxman youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk Books: Winning the Story Wars: Jonah Sachs Creating Climate Wealth: Jigar Shah The Spirit Level: Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson Limits to Growth: Donella H. Meadows Leaders: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB): http://www.sasb.org/

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Wild Horses, Hunter Lovins, and the Way to a Better World

The Ecologist Sophie Marlin-Yron 10 September 2014 Hunter Lovins is on a mission, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron: to put the transformational technologies we already have to work for the benefit of people and business – and to re-create the economy so it’s no longer a machine for polluting the planet and devouring natural resources, but a mechanism for building and sustaining natural and human capital. “What do you want your future to be? We have all the technologies to solve all the problems facing us. We can build a better world for us, for all of life on the planet.” American author,...

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Why George Monbiot is Wrong: Grazing Livestock Can Save the World

  The Guardian L. Hunter Lovins 19 August 2014 L Hunter Lovins: George Monbiot’s recent criticism of Allan Savory’s theory that grazing livestock can reverse climate change ignores evidence that it’s already experiencing success inn his recent interview with Allan Savory, the high profile biologist and farmer who argues that properly managing grazing animals can counter climate chaos, George Monbiot reasonably asks for proof. Where I believe he strays into the unreasonable, is in asserting that there is none. Savory’s argument, which counters popular conceptions, is that more livestock rather than fewer can help save the planet through a concept he calls “holistic...

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