[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 February 2013 There’s no question that when it comes to fixing national problems, Congress has bigger power tools than the President of the United States. But the President is not powerless. He has a variety of authorities conferred by the Constitution, validated by the courts, implied by tradition or delegated by Congress. Nor does President Obama lack ideas on how to use those tools, especially on the topic of climate disruption. Since he...
2 February, 2013 | Thimphu, Bhutan | New Development Paradigm in Focus
Bhutan TV interviews International Environmental Working Group members David Suzuki, Frances Moore Lappe and Hunter Lovins. Hunter’s segment is 12 min 46 sec into this video.
26 Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA | TEDxBGI
TEDx BGI “What’s Your Story?” by L. Hunter Lovins (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides. Hunter Lovins talks about the power of story to bring about a sense of purpose in the business world. youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV8TsdhRFRk
Fewer Swords, More Plowshares: A Marine Rethinks Defense
[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 22 & 23 January 2013 With a new foreign policy team about to join the Obama Administration and with the possibility of budget cuts for the Department of Defense, are changes ahead in how the United States approaches national security? That question is on the minds of thought leaders in the security and defense communities. In the discussion, a novel idea is emerging: that sustainable development at home is a critical dimension of America’s...
0-Dark Thirty
Dawn of the great day. I woke before the alarm, packed my gear and got gone downstairs to catch the bus to Ensenada to board the boat. With some anxiety. I’d asked the clueless ol’ gal sitting on the Semester at Sea desk in the lobby of the Hilton about the details of the bus to meet the boat in Mexico next morning, to be told that the bus was going Wednesday AM. Not tomorrow. But my hotel reso was for one night. Gawd, did we get it wrong? I checked with the inveterate Nancy, my Exec, who assured me...
7-15 January 2013 | Unreasonable at Sea (San Diego, CA – Hilo, HI)
Hunter sailed from San Diego, CA – Hilo, HI on the first leg of the Unreasonable Semester at Sea. Click here to watch on Unreasonable.is, or if you cannot view the videos enbedded below you can click here to watch on Vimeo. Full Video Sections
The Adventure Begins
The coast of Mexico stretches away south. From my hotel room in San Diego I can see where I will journey tomorrow to join the Semester at Sea ship to sail to Hawaii. As a mentor for the new program, Unreasonable at Sea, I’ll be working with 25 young entrepreneurs who have joined this inaugural program to bring social entrepreneuring to the world. The lines from Tennyson’s Ulysses come to me: Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail...
The Incontrovertible Business Case for Clean Energy
Huffington Post 9 January 2013 Imagine this: You live in beautiful house with the best of everything. However, when you turn on your faucets, only one-fifth of the water you pay for comes out. The rest leaks from bad plumbing onto your basement floor. That describes America’s situation with energy. Only 13% of the energy we burn results in useful work. The rest is wasted by inefficiencies in buildings, power plants, infrastructure, transportation systems and equipment. Much of it ends up as pollution. Just as a responsible householder would fix his plumbing, a responsible nation would fix the leaks in...
Still Hurting in the Heartland
[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”] ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 19 December 2012 Superstorm Sandy may be remembered years from now as the pivot point in the United States’ response to global climate change. Politically speaking, Sandy’s true power was not its wind and water; it was the fact that it hit the principal center of America’s population, financial institutions and media. It was another wake-up call, but with more people in high places hearing the alarm. Network news anchors are...
Don't Buy This Jacket: Lessons in Successful Values Marketing
[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”] Sustainable Brands (by LH Lovins & Colette Crouse, 2012 NCS Intern) 18 December 2012 Ask any member of the Outdoor Industry Association’s Sustainability Working Group or Sustainable Apparel Coalition and they will tell you consumers are not the ones driving sustainability. Companies such as prAna, Patagonia and GoLite were weaving environmental good into the fibers of their operations long before ‘green’ became a buzzword. For them, using — or abusing — sustainability purely as a marketing strategy...