Kelli Barrett Ecosystem Marketplace 29 June 2016 Colorado resident Sandra Laursen was looking for a way to reduce her own personal greenhouse gas emissions, and today her car sports a Project C license plate that reads “advancing clean energy.” “I wanted to put my money where my mouth is on the issue of climate change,” says Laursen, who taught climate-related topics for several years and currently works at Colorado University in Boulder, researching science and math education. The Project C license plate is an initiative within the Colorado Carbon Fund (CCF) and is one easy way Coloradans can contribute to...
A Better Story
L. Hunter Lovins June 2016 “You walk into the future by laying the runway out in front of people. You clear the impediment littering the ground, smooth the surface, and enable people to see the route. If you want to change a paradigm, you have to tell a better story” The Problems The global economy rests on a knife-edge, based on the unsustainable assumptions and business practices of Cheater Capitalism. The current paradigm, subsidizing incumbent technologies and corporate profits and bailing out too-big- to-fail banks and companies, while socializing losses and privatizing commons, is impoverishing citizens, communities, and countries, driving societies and ecosystems into...
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Roughly Right vs Really Wrong
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins June 2016 Hunter Lovins explains that when it comes to valuing nature, it’s better to be roughly right than really wrong. This article has been submitted as part of the Natural Capital Coalition’s series of blogs on natural capital by Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Professor of Sustainable Management, Bard MBA and Time Magazine Millennium “Hero of the Planet”. “NATURAL CAPITAL!” the famous author snarled at me, “It’s NATURE! It’s PEOPLE! not capital. You can’t call them capital; they’re… they’re…spiritual,” he spat at me. “You can’t put a price tag on them. It’s immoral.”...
18 May 2016 | Boulder, CO | 8th Annual ARCS Research Conference
L. Hunter Lovins: “What Sustainability Needs to Know” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
9 May 2016 | Los Angeles, CA |Campbell Hall General Assembly
L. Hunter Lovins: “What Can You Do” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
24 April 2016 | Dallas, TX | Earth Day TX
L. Hunter Lovins: “Economics for the Anthropocene” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
Colorado Mountain College Sustainability Conference
Hunter Lovins was the Keynote for the 2016 Colorado Mountain College Sustainability Conference in Steamboat Springs, CO. This was a wonderful event where NCS helped CMC launch the “Sustainability Action Plan Recommendations Report”
21 April 2016 | Steamboat Springs, CO | CMC Sustainability Conference
L. Hunter Lovins: “Education in the Anthropocene” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
Sustainable Manufacturing Forum at Pratt & Whitney | April 19, 2016
Hunter Lovins shares how sustainability has a strong business case and smart companies are embracing the challenges of Climate Change and resource constraints in their operations and strategy.
19 April 2016 | Hartford, Connecticut |Sustainable Manufacturing Forum
L. Hunter Lovins: “Flying into the Future” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.