It’s a thrill to launch a book, and standing room only at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco is not a bad way to do it. That’s the honor that a lively audience gave me Tuesday. With my dear friend Joel Makower, editor of GreenBiz, presiding, Climate Capitalism made its formal debut to sustainability thought...
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Principles of Climate Capitalism
GreenBiz.com 11 April 2011 [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”][GreenBiz Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of excerpts from “Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change,” by L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd...
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"Can Climate Capitalism Save the World?" by Joel Makower
GreenBiz (by Joel Makower) 11 April 2011 For roughly three decades, L. Hunter Lovins has been a clear and provocative voice on business and sustainability — first at the Rocky Mountain Institute, which she co-founded in 1982 with Amory Lovins, and later through her own organization, Natural Capitalism Solutions. Along the way, she has been a prolific...
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It arrived.
/]he first ever copy of Climate Capitalism arrived today. Margo Boteilho, our accountant, came in with the mail. I was giving an interview on my new book Climate Capitalism with Robert Colangelo of Greensense. It was my second interview of the day: this morning my co-author, Dr Boyd Cohen, and I did an hour long...
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It snowed in Berkeley last night
It snowed in Berkeley last night. Thought I saw some on a car going past. Then there it was, lining the verges of Interstate 80. OK, it’s still winter for a few more days… My tired mind didn’t register at first. The evening I’d been going to spend snuggled into the cozy little home in...
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I-80 West
It’s a long way from Des Moines to Colorado. We rose early – time-zone scrambled circadian rhythms being useful for something – and headed west. The morning started grimly though, as logging on to check the status of the crippled nuke in Japan brought the breaking news of the explosion. Dammit, why have humans persisted...
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Dispatch from Iowa
Today’s frontline is Iowa. Natural Capitalism has been working with various communities here to enhance the profitability of their small businesses through a for-profit venture that some folk in California has asked us to help create a year or so ago. It’s done OK, that little business, running half a dozen “sustainability learning circles,” with...
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Dispatches from the Frontlines of Sustainability
A block from Paddington Station in London is the Frontline Club, a haven for journalists and NGO activists who work on the front lines around the world. In its chic restaurant hang photos from wars its founders covered. And the original of the solitary man facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square. I belong, having...
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"Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change" by Victoria Stephens and Dena Zocher
Planet-Profit Report (by Victoria Stephens & Dena Zocher) 6 March 2011 Hunter Lovins, the president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, works with businesses, communities and governments to help them adopt sustainability principles and practices to deliver better value to their stakeholders. Lovins will give a keynote presentation at the 2011 Sustainable Opportunities Summit in Denver, April...
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"Convincing Even the Skeptics to Go Green" by Jim Witkin
[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”] New York Times (by Jim Witkin) 2 February 2011 Centuries of burning fossil fuels to power our modern lifestyles is warming our planet and changing our climate. Or not. So goes...