09 April 2014January 29, 2019

25-27 April 2014 | Benedictine University Distinguished Scholar

Articles: The Knife’s Edge of Cheater Capitalism L. Hunter Lovins to the UN-NGLS North America Regional Consultation Prosperity Without Growth: The transition to a sustainable economy Sustainable Development Commission Time to Leave GDP Behind Nature, L. Hunter Lovins, Robert Costanza and the ASAP team The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance Harvard Business Review, R. Eccles, I. Ioannou, G. Serafeim A Journey of a Thousand Miles: The State of Sustainability Leadership 2011 University of Cambridge Sustainable Capitalism Generation Investment Management LLP, London

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05 March 2014January 29, 2019

What Our Children Will Ask

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Huffington Post 4 March 2014 I know the questions our children will ask When they stop long enough to think of the past. Was there ever a summer when heat didn’t kill, ever a harvest when the grain bins were filled? Was there ever a time when we didn’t fear rain, When the skies were not angry and the rivers were tame? Was there ever a year when no species were lost to what people did...

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05 February 2014January 29, 2019

Why We Rob Our Childern

Bill Becker 5 February 2014   In 1934 when the FBI asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he reportedly answered, “Because that’s where the money is.” Today, if you ask an investor in the fossil energy sector to be candid about why he is robbing our children’s future, he would give the same response: That’s where the money is. Whether we’re talking about government subsidies, or buying stock, or wildcatting for oil, or shoveling coal, or destroying a wetland for economic development, we are investing in things that degrade the future, squander natural capital, and spend our children’s inheritance....

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23 January 2014January 29, 2019

200 More Ideas for the President’s Climate Plan

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Huffington Post 21 January 2014 If you thought that the climate action plan President Obama announced last June contained a complete global warming agenda for the next three years, think again. There are few more things he can do. Two hundred more things, to be precise. In a Washington D.C. news conference, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter released a long menu of new ideas for the President’s consideration. The ideas, collected in a report called Powering Forward,...

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18 January 2014January 29, 2019

Finding the Promise in Promise Zones

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Huffington Post 17 January 2014 President Obama’s designation of five localities as Promise Zones is the latest in a long history of efforts by his predecessors to wage the war on poverty in communities where the war is needed most. It’s a good idea, if it is done well. It would make little sense to put new financial resources into the same strategies and power structures that have created and perpetuated the poverty that exists in parts of...

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18 January 2014January 29, 2019

Sustainability is Better Business – And We Can Prove It

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] The Guardian 17 January 2014 by L. Hunter Lovins It’s become weirdly fashionable to criticise companies cutting their impact on the environment and implementing more sustainable practices as insufficient. A recent piece by Charles Eisenstein claimed: “Let’s be honest: real sustainability may not make business sense.” That’s just wrong. More than 50 studies (PDF) from the likes of those wild-eyed environmentalists at Goldman Sachs show that the companies that are the leaders in environment, social and good governance policies are financially...

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