Natural Capitalism Solutions Employee Spotlight AJ GROSENBAUGH AJ Grosenbaugh has been with Natural Capitalism Solutions for almost a year. Starting as an intern and moving onto a full-time employee this past may, he’s been a huge asset to the NCS team. Read more about him below! Height? 6’2″ Hobbies? Tinkering, whether its the car, my bike, I like to try to fix things. Nicknames? AJ is a nickname. Short for Andrew James. Why did you decide to work for NCS? I was drawn by the approach of realizing practical, economically viable solutions to the decline of...
Ocean Acidification Still Matters in Colorado
Blog Post: Ocean Acidification BY: TATJANA KUNZ (Summer Intern 2017) Even those of us in landlocked Colorado, 745 miles from the nearest shore, rely on the ocean. The ocean absorbs large amounts of the carbon dioxide that we release, provides us with tasty seafood, is a major source for pharmaceuticals, and generates 70 percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere[1] But our oceans are at risk. Unless we do something about it, ocean acidification (OA) will continue to threaten and erode the marine life that our economy relies so heavily on. The ocean absorbs about a third of the excess...
4 October 2017 | Boulder, CO | Rachel’s Network Fall Retreat
L. Hunter Lovins “The Mother of All Disruptions” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
Sue the Bastards
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins September 2017 When flood waters rose in Houston and Hurricane Harvey spread eastward to already battered regions of the Gulf coast, the urgent priority was preservation of life, evacuation of those threatened and long-term care of the displaced. The unfolding tragedy that is Harvey has already killed dozens, with more to come. Cost estimates rose from $30 billion before the storm, to $75 billion, as the severity became obvious, to over $100 billion. Harvey will certainly exceed Katrina, the previous record holder, costing up to one percent of U.S. GDP. As usual, Americans reached deep to lend sympathy, understanding...
Business Stepping Up Episode II: Entrepreneuring a Finer Future
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins August 2017 Episode II – Wrath of Businesses Stepping Up With Alejandro Crawford: managing director of Acceleration Group, and partner in Tangible Creative, As the U.S. steps back from the Paris Climate Agreement and doubles down on the economies of yesterday, business leaders must step up. Last week I presented the business case for sustainability. Today Alejandro Crawford, professor of entrepreneurship at the Bard MBA in Sustainability talks about how disruptive innovation can unleash the next industrial revolution. At Bard, every MBA takes entrepreneurship because we believe these skills are essential for all sustainability leaders, not just those doing startups. Faculty members connect their...
Business Stepping Up: The Principles of Sustainable Management
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins August 2017 The first in a series in which I will chat with change-agent professors delivering sustainability expertise. In the early 1990s, Professor Mike Russo suggested that there was a broader context for our work helping companies profit by using resources more efficiently. There is, he stated, a business case for sustainability. This sounds self-evident today, but back then it was heresy. It flew in the face of the widespread belief spread by Milton Friedman, and the other neoliberal economists that greed is good; the only social responsibility of business was to increase profits and deliver value to owners. Then,...
Crisis May Trigger Transition
Policy Forum February 2017 Could Trump be the catalyst for a seismic shift toward a sustainable and desirable future? The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency could enable the creative destruction needed for the transition to a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world, write Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Maja Göpel, Ida Kubiszewski, Hunter Lovins, Dirk Philipsen, and Stewart Wallis. Donald Trump’s rise to the White House has shocked many around the world, especially now that controversial decisions are being taken on immigration, climate change, education, environment, and energy policy. It represents a massive regression to parochial governance: the...
AWOKE || KUCI Radio Interview with Hunter Lovins || July 5, 2017
On July 5, Hunter spoke with KUCI Radio to discuss current business trends, our present economy and the impacts of global climate change. For more on the talk-show host Calvin Grace, visit his website here.
3 July 2017 | Munich, Germany | Radical Hope: Inspiring Sustainability Transformations through Our Past
L. Hunter Lovins “Radical Hope for a Finer Future” https://natcapsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Radical-Hope-Workshop-Hunter-Lovins-Keynote.mp4
Annual Conference of The CLUB OF ROME 2016 in Berlin
Interviews from the attendees of the Annual Meeting of the Club of Rome, in Berlin, November 2016. Hunter Lovins was in attendance.