Author and global thought leader, Hunter Lovins, discusses her new book, “A Finer Future,” in which a hopeful pathway, grounded in actual developments worldwide, is laid out for achieving a sustainable world. Integrated bottom lines, the helix of managing a sustainable organization, growing “well-being economy alliances,” and the “baking in” of sustainability objectives are among...
Tag: Sustainability
What Do You Say When Young People Ask If There Is Hope?
This last weekend one of my students asked if we might talk…? (I teach the next generation’s business leaders at the Bard MBA.) Sure. “It’s my daughter…,” she said, her eyes moistening. “She asked me this week if she is going to have a future.” It’s heartbreaking that our children have to deal with these fears....
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...
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...
The Day You Changed The Economy
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins April 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”. I was there when we transformed the economy....
Leading for Well-being
Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins February 2016 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”. In a world beset with woes, people hunger...
A Small Team Making a Big Difference: An Intern’s Look at NCS
By 2014 NCS Intern Teija Mortvedt “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” -Steve...
Economy on the Edge: Seeking a World That Works for the 100%
The Guardian 6 June 2014 The global economy is on the edge with 85 people having as much wealth as 3.5bn of the world’s poorest. We need a new story of an economy that doesn’t trash the planet Humanity is learning the hard way. We are exceeding the planetary boundaries that define the edge of our planet’s...
Local Impact
ALSO POSTED BY: Sustainable Industries 27 September 2012 Written by Hanna Schum 2012 Intern If you think engaging employees across several departments within your company is challenging, try engaging every employee from public defenders to road maintenance workers in one of California’s largest counties. Alameda County is tackling just that, using sustainability to rally their employees to...