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
06 April 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
3 April 2014 | Oakland, CA | California College of the Arts
“Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way” by L. Hunter Lovins (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
28 March 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
26 Mar 2014 | Maui, HI | Electric Utilities Conference
Hunter’s Keynote “Future of Electric Utilities” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides. Ililani Media, Henry Curtis Interview of Hunter Lovins Part 1 / Part 2
05 March 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
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...
05 February 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
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....
23 January 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
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,...
18 January 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
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...
18 January 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
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...
17 January 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
19 December 2013 | Conversations with Great Minds – Media's coverage of climate change? by Thom Hartmann
The Big Picture (YouTube) 19 December 2013 Climate change is the greatest threat our planet has ever faced – and we need to take action now to prevent the situation from getting any worse. But will there ever be enough political will to put the policies in place that are needed to save the future of the only planet we can call home? We’ll ask William Becker – Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project – in tonight’s special Conversations with Great Minds
17 January 2014January 29, 2019Natural Capitalism Solutions
Development: Time to Leave GDP Behind
[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”] Nature 15 January 2014 [/fusion_builder_column][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”][download .pdf] By Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Enrico Giovannini, Hunter Lovins, Jacqueline McGlade, Kate E. Pickett, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Debra Roberts, Roberto De Vogli& Richard Wilkinson Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success. Countries should act now to embrace new metrics, urge Robert Costanza and colleagues. GDP measures mainly...