The Future of Industry

By L. Hunter Lovins, Emily A. Evans, Bonnie Nixon and Catherine Greener This paper was adapted an expanded for a global audience from a paper 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] Table of Contents Chapter 1. The World Needs Sustainable Production……….. 6 Why Business-as-Usual is Changing: The Drivers of Change……. 7 Rethinking Industry to Achieve Sustainability: Solutions and Opportunities……. 9 How to Change...

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Case Study: Railbelt Electricity Efficiency Landscape (REEL) in Alaska Roadmap

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 in wages, $53,499,850 in business income, and 9,350 new jobs.For more information on how Natural Capitalism Solutions can help your community set and achieve similar goals, contact contact us. Click here to download the complete report. Click here to download the executive summary.

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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 Solutions can help your community set and achieve similar goals contact us. Click here to download the complete report. Click here to download the executive summary. Click here to download the report without appendices.

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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 for distribution of wealth), we exacerbate all of the problems that GDP growth is increasingly causing. We fail to recognize that such growth in the developed countries is not improving human well-being. We fail to recognize that distributing our wealth more fairly would actually improve overall well-being. We...

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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 to life and tourism. Life will move forward. However, what is different here is that this catastrophic environmental disaster marks a watershed in human history. Why? There is not much slack left in the human timeline. We have a small window of opportunity in which...

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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 economic and environmental dilemma.

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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 report provides an economic case study in energy financing. For more information on how Natural Capitalism Solutions can analyze alternatives to your local coal plant contact us. Click here to download the 4 March 2010 Press Release. Click here to download the Executive Summary Click...

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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] This paper was also expanded and adopted for a global audience in July 2010 (read more here). In November 2008, Hunter Lovins was engaged by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to write a paper on sustainable production for Asia. The paper addresses how...

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