"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 writer, speaker, educator and a globally recognized consultant on sustainability to companies, governments and others. On the occasion of the publication of her latest book, “Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change,” coauthored with Boyd Cohen, I recently sat down with Hunter to...

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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 webinar for Net Impact on the book, and I was focused on remembering what I’d said two hours before and what this new audience hadn’t yet heard – one of the tricky bits of doing multiple interviews in the same day. Margo slipped into my...

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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 the Marin Headlands where I’m camped this week had disappeared into work. Walking to the kitchen down the hall from our new Madrone Project office in the David Brower Center in Berkeley, I spotted John Knox, Executive Director of Earth Island Institute down in the...

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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 in such stupidity? Nuclear is an exceedingly expensive way to boil water, and as this week’s nasty news has shown, remains vulnerable to the caprice of nature. My tweet querying this brought a reply of “Greed.” My friend April wrote, “Some expect the radiation to...

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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 small business leaders in California, Colorado and Iowa. On paper, it stands to make a great deal of money. But last fall I began to question whether this was the best model. Nothing wrong with the circles but I became concerned that the model wouldn’t...

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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 worked on front lines, times past, in places like Afghanistan, and stay there whenever in London, curling into the club room upstairs, with its rickety chairs, delicious whisky and the best mutton pie anywhere. Wars proliferate and the club was packed the other night for...

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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 11-12. Her new book,Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, will be released in April. Here are a few excerpts from a conversation with Lovins that will continue at the Summit. Green Convene Strategies: Do you see organizations engaging with Natural Capitalism Solutions more because...

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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 the debate. Regardless of where you stand on this issue, making your business more environmentally friendly is just good business, according to L. Hunter Lovins, president of Natural Capitalism Solutions and co-author of “Climate Capitalism” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which is set for release in April. “You...

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2 October 2010 | San Francisco, CA | West Coast Green & Madrone League Announcement

West Coast Green 2010 (no slides used) PRESS TreeHugger Michelle Kaufmann video interview with Hunter Lovins Just Means‘ Kevin Long video interview with Hunter Lovins Triple Pundit “Madrone League: Open Source Sustainability Education” (by Erica Frye) 4 October 2010 Triple Pundit “A Look at Women’s Leadership in Sustainability” (by Erica Frye) 14 October 2010 Tree Hugger Video

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Elizabeth Bowman of CAPCOA Climate Change Forum

For me, Hunter’s presentation was the highlight of the conference very inspiring and practical at the same time. . . it’s a good mix. The best singular moment of the conference as a whole was when Hunter entered the room during Van Jones’ keynote address and they saluted each other. It was a special moment in time. Elizabeth Bowman Gladstein Neandross & Associates CAPCOA Climate Change Forum San Francisco, CA 30-31 August 2010

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