L. Hunter Lovins “The Mother of All Disruptions” (Download PDF Slideshow Here) Please contact [email protected] for the powerpoint slides.
Sue the Bastards
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins September 2017 When flood waters rose in Houston and Hurricane Harvey spread eastward to already battered regions of the Gulf coast, the urgent priority was preservation of life, evacuation of those threatened and long-term care of the displaced. The unfolding tragedy that is Harvey has already killed dozens, with more to come. Cost estimates rose from $30 billion before the storm, to $75 billion, as the severity became obvious, to over $100 billion. Harvey will certainly exceed Katrina, the previous record holder, costing up to one percent of U.S. GDP. As usual, Americans reached deep to lend sympathy, understanding...
Business Stepping Up Episode II: Entrepreneuring a Finer Future
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins August 2017 Episode II – Wrath of Businesses Stepping Up With Alejandro Crawford: managing director of Acceleration Group, and partner in Tangible Creative, As the U.S. steps back from the Paris Climate Agreement and doubles down on the economies of yesterday, business leaders must step up. Last week I presented the business case for sustainability. Today Alejandro Crawford, professor of entrepreneurship at the Bard MBA in Sustainability talks about how disruptive innovation can unleash the next industrial revolution. At Bard, every MBA takes entrepreneurship because we believe these skills are essential for all sustainability leaders, not just those doing startups. Faculty members connect their...
Business Stepping Up: The Principles of Sustainable Management
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins August 2017 The first in a series in which I will chat with change-agent professors delivering sustainability expertise. In the early 1990s, Professor Mike Russo suggested that there was a broader context for our work helping companies profit by using resources more efficiently. There is, he stated, a business case for sustainability. This sounds self-evident today, but back then it was heresy. It flew in the face of the widespread belief spread by Milton Friedman, and the other neoliberal economists that greed is good; the only social responsibility of business was to increase profits and deliver value to owners. Then,...
Crisis May Trigger Transition
Policy Forum February 2017 Could Trump be the catalyst for a seismic shift toward a sustainable and desirable future? The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency could enable the creative destruction needed for the transition to a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world, write Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Maja Göpel, Ida Kubiszewski, Hunter Lovins, Dirk Philipsen, and Stewart Wallis. Donald Trump’s rise to the White House has shocked many around the world, especially now that controversial decisions are being taken on immigration, climate change, education, environment, and energy policy. It represents a massive regression to parochial governance: the...
AWOKE || KUCI Radio Interview with Hunter Lovins || July 5, 2017
On July 5, Hunter spoke with KUCI Radio to discuss current business trends, our present economy and the impacts of global climate change. For more on the talk-show host Calvin Grace, visit his website here.
3 July 2017 | Munich, Germany | Radical Hope: Inspiring Sustainability Transformations through Our Past
L. Hunter Lovins “Radical Hope for a Finer Future” https://natcapsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Radical-Hope-Workshop-Hunter-Lovins-Keynote.mp4
Annual Conference of The CLUB OF ROME 2016 in Berlin
Interviews from the attendees of the Annual Meeting of the Club of Rome, in Berlin, November 2016. Hunter Lovins was in attendance.
Killing Your Future
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins February 2017 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”. As I write, the U.S. Administration is announcing that it is leaving the Paris Climate Accord. The environmental and business communities are outraged. Advocates of withdrawal claim that it will put America first. Little could be further from the truth. This used to be the position developing nations took at international climate negotiations:...
Can Trump’s Election Open The Door To A Sustainable And Desirable Future?
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins February 2017 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”. With Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Maja Goepel, Dirk Philipsen and Stewart Wallis Donald Trump’s narrow victory in November has shocked many around the world. Made possible only by an antiquated electoral system, his claim to the most powerful position in world politics seemed previously inconceivable. Controversial decisions on immigration, climate change...