Radical Energy Efficiency in Your Community The REEL in Alaska Roadmap demonstrates how Alaskans in the Railbelt region of Anchorage, Juneau, and Homer can meet their electricity needs in 2025, using as little as 50% of the electricity used in the year 2000.Accomplishing this goal will lead to increases of $947,992,100 in economic output, $290,927,800...
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Case Study: Fairbanks First Fuel
Economic Development Through Energy Efficiency Increasing the efficiency with which Fairbanks meets its electricity needs will create jobs, increase business incomes, and provide overall economic development for the community. Directed toward efficiency, each investment of $25,000,000 could eliminate the need for as much as 24MW of generating capacity. For more information on how Natural Capitalism...
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Creating a Game Plan for the Transition to a Sustainable U.S. Economy
Solutions Journal (by: Hunter Lovins, Jeffrey Hollender, Gar Alperovitz, Christina Asquith, Bill Becker, Robert Costanza, Elliot Hoffman, Ellen Kahler, David Levine, David Rapaport) June 2010 The United States—indeed, the global community—is at a crossroads. We have a choice between two futures. The first is business as usual. In an effort to continue economic growth in the conventional sense (growing Gross Domestic Product with little concern...
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Re-Imagining the Economy of the Gulf States by Alexia Parks
Huffington Post (by Alexia Parks) 15 June 2010 What were the Gulf States like before the introduction of oil refineries? Before offshore drilling? Not all of the Gulf of Mexico is destined to become a dead zone. Not all shorelines along the Gulf states — along with the air, itself — will be off limits...
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27 May 2010 | Raleigh, NC | NCSU Center for Innovation Management Studies Spring Meeting
North Carolina State University Center for Innovation Management Studies (NCSU-CIMS) Spring 2010 Meeting PRESS: A student interview with Hunter Lovins North Carolina State’s College of Innovation Management Studies (CIMS). Recorded at The Angus Barn in Raleigh, NC this 2010 Spring Conference highlights the many challenges and opportunities for sustainable, profitable, business solutions to an increasingly larger...
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Case Study: Coal Plants in Transition
Transition from Coal to Clean Energy Makes Good Business Sense Utilities and other large-scale energy providers with significant percentages of coal in their generation portfolios can profitably transition toward more flexible and less capital intensive efficiency and renewables technologies using a business approach outlined in a new economic study completed by Natural Capitalism Solutions. This...
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16 December 2009 | Copenhagen, Denmark | UNFCCC's COP-15
UNFCCC COP-15 Meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark Hunter Lovins interviewed PRESS: Huffington Post “Chaos and Capitulation in Copenhagen” (by Jerry Cope) 16 December 2009
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21 October 2009 | New York, NY | National Climate Seminar at Bard College
Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s National Climate Seminar PRESS: Triple Pundit “Hunter Lovins Speaks On Climate Change Action and Revamping the Economy” (By Gina-Marie Cheeseman) 29 October 2009
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The Future of Industry in Asia (for UNIDO)
By L. Hunter Lovins, Emily A. Evans, Bonnie Nixon and Catherine Greener Written for the UNIDO International Conference on Green Industry in Asia, September 2009. [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”][download the .pdf of the full 200+ page report]...
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15 October 2008 | Berkeley, CA | UC Berkeley's Capitalism Next Seminar
From Sustainable Business to Sustainable Capitalism Hunter Lovins at the Blum Center for Developing Economies – Net Impact sponsor