[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 23 October 2012 Earlier this month, federal officials streamlined the development of centralized, large-scale, solar power plants by establishing 17 new “solar energy zones” on 285,000 acres of public land. According to Steven Chu, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, this cutting of red tape will expand solar energy production and help the nation remain competitive in the global clean energy race. While this move marks a step in the right direction, an integral...
Raise the Voltage in the Energy Debate
ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 19 October 2012 While energy got some airtime in the second presidential debate, neither candidate hit at the weakest spots in the other’s positions. Mitt Romney’s energy platform ignores the substantial downsides of fossil fuels and reveals a misunderstanding of how the real world works. President Obama has presided over a national energy strategy that he admits is a “hodgepodge”. This is a topic that deserves far more attention before Nov. 6. After all, we all use energy. We all pay for it. We all breathe its pollution. We all depend on it to be...
Clean Energy is Good for Business
[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 22 October 2012 An ongoing argument in the presidential election campaign is whether Gov. Romney’s or President Obama’s positions are better for small businesses on issues such as government regulation and energy policy. I asked David Levine for his opinion. Levine is cofounder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a growing non-partisan coalition of business networks and businesses committed to creating a vision, a framework and policies that...
18 October 2012 | Star, NC | Future of North Carolina's Water
The Future of North Carolina’s Water Conference “Water and Life” by L. Hunter Lovins (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
16 October 2012 | Tacoma, WA | Housing Washington
Housing Washington Conference “Sustainability in Community” by L. Hunter Lovins (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
14 October 2012 | Los Angeles, CA | AASHE
AASHE 2012 Conference (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) “The Future of Higher Education” Keynote by L. Hunter Lovins (Download PDF Slideshow Here) “Communicating Sustainability” Workshop by L. Hunter Lovins & Toby Russell (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
Welcome to Sustainable Management with Bard
Triple Pundit 10 October 2012 Remember the feeling of excitement on your first day of class? Imagine the first day of creating a whole new MBA program. I was honored last month to give the inaugural lecture to a class of 19 candidates for a Masters in Sustainable Business, the new MBA created by Bard College. Unlike most MBA programs, the fundamentals of doing business in sustainable ways are woven throughout the entire curriculum. More, we will be using the city of New York as a living laboratory – yep, that’s a class that all students are enrolled in –...
3-4 October 2012 | Aimes, Des Moines and Iowa City, IA | ISU, Iowa Environmental Council, U of I
3-city Tour Iowa State University “Technology Globalization and Culture” by L. Hunter Lovins (download slides) Iowa Environmental Council University of Iowa “Finding Iowa’s Way” by L. Hunter Lovins (download slides)
Break the Candidates’ Silence on Climate Change
[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 1 October 2012 The Obama and Romney campaigns are making the point that there are big differences between the positions of the two presidential candidates, and America has a clear choice between two futures. There are no issues on which those statements are truer than energy policy and its impact on global climate change. The candidates haven’t said much about climate change so far. They should be forced to talk about...
Local Impact
ALSO POSTED BY: Sustainable Industries 27 September 2012 Written by Hanna Schum 2012 Intern If you think engaging employees across several departments within your company is challenging, try engaging every employee from public defenders to road maintenance workers in one of California’s largest counties. Alameda County is tackling just that, using sustainability to rally their employees to take climate action. [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”] Alameda County’s 9,000 employees range from sheriffs to librarians to landscapers. County employees provide health and human services...