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L. Hunter Lovins, renowned author and champion of sustainable development for over 30 years, is the founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and Natural Capitalism Solutions, a 501(c)3 non-profit in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. A professor at Presidio School of Management's MBA in Sustainable Management program, she has taught at major universities, consulted for citizens’ groups, governments and corporations. She co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute and led it for 20 years.[1] In great demand as an inspirational speaker and effective consultant, she has addressed the World Economic Forum, the U.S. Congress, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and hundreds of major conferences. Named millennium Hero for the Planet by Time Magazine, she has received the Right Livelihood Award, the Leadership in Business Award and dozens of other honors. Hunter believes that citizens, communities and companies, working together within the market context, are the most dynamic problem-solving force on the planet. She has devoted herself to building teams that can create and implement practical and affordable solutions to the problems facing us in creating a sustainable future. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 538 pixelsFull resolution (3916 × 2634 pixel, file size: 3. ...
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Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. ...
Presidio School of Management (originally called Presidio World College) is an higher education institution based in San Francisco, California. ...
Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ...
According to its web site, Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. ...
Background A lawyer (member of the California Bar), Hunter helped establish, and was for six years Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), an innovative urban forestry and environmental education group. She served as policy advisor for Friends of the Earth under David Bower. Named Henry R. Luce visiting professor at Dartmouth College, Hunter has taught at numerous other universities, and is currently professor of Sustainable Management at Presidio World College, the accredited MBA in sustainable management. In 1982 she founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a 50-person research centre with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. Until 2002, when she left to join the Global Academy, she was RMI’s CEO for strategy.
Public Service Hunter was one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the UN’s prep conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and lead a delegation to the World Summit. She was a commissioner in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, George Soros and others. In 2003, she created Natural Capitalism Inc. and the non-profit Natural Capitalism Solutions to implement the ideas of sustainable development on a global scale.
Hunter has served on the boards of one government, several corporations, and many public interest groups. She advises numerous companies and non-profits, including Engineers Without Borders, Portfolio 21, GreenMountain.com and The Natural Edge Project. She was a founding director of RMI’s for-profit spin-off, E SOURCE, until its 1999 sale for $18 million to the Financial Times.
Public Appearances
Presentations Hunter has presented to an impressive array of audiences around the world, including:
U.S. Congress
World Summit on Sustainable Development
World Economic Forum
Global Economic Forum
Daughters of the American Revolution Continental Congress
World’s Fair Energy Symposia
State of the World Forum
St. John the Divine Cathedral Epiphany Service
Industrial Designers Society’s WorlDesign
United Nations Development Program
Institution of Engineers Australia
United Nations Industrial Development Organizations Annual General Conference
Hundreds of conferences & college symposia
Queensland EPA Sustainable Industries Division
New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Western Australia Environmental Policy Unit
IPENZ National Convention / Newnham Lecture Australian Conservation Foundation
European Climate Exchange
Television appearances 60 Minutes (USA)
Good Morning America
Bill Moyers’ NOW
Pat Robertson’s “700 Club”
Australian Broadcasting Company
The Merv Griffin Show
Hundreds of TV and radio news programs
Award-winning film “Lovins On the Soft Path”
Chicago Manufacturing Center online training course for the Sustainability Helix
Awards Hunter shared a 1982 Mitchell Prize for an essay on reallocating utility capital, a 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the “alternative Nobel Prize”), a 1993 Nissan Award for an article on Hypercars, the 1999 Lindbergh Award for Environment and Technology, and several honorary doctorates. In 2000 she was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine, and received the Loyola University Award for Outstanding Community Service. In 2001 she received the Leadership in Business Award and shared the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Research. In 2005 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award of Pitzer College.
Selected Publications Hunter has co-authored nine books including Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999), and the upcoming publication The Natural Advantage of Nations (2006), Green Development (19‘98), Factor 4: Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use and Least Cost Energy (1997, together with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker), and Solving the CO2 Problem (‘1981) Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born June 25, 1939 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a German scientist and politician. ...
•She has written dozens of professional papers including Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Journal of the American Bar Association, Natural Resources Journal and Journal of the U.S. Green Building Council
• Recent articles have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, The Guardian, American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, Yes! Magazine (see photo), and In-Business Magazine
Higher Education The business education programs developed by Hunter and her colleagues demonstrate how socially and environmentally responsible business decisions benefit performance in corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Her team draws upon expertise in international business, education, engineering, architecture, law, economics, and natural resources to design custom programs. Universities in Europe, Australia and North America are responding to the challenge of achieving sustainable development. University leaders increasingly acknowledge their responsibility in this arena through networks such as the ‘UNESCO Global Higher Education Sustainability Partnership’. Progress is reflected in the growth of the number of signatories to declarations of sustainability, such as the Talloires Declaration, the development of national and international networks of university staff devoted to improvement in sustainability, such as the ‘University Leaders for a Sustainable Future Network, and the impressive innovation globally in environmentally sustainable design and practice. A shift is occurring in Universities in Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, China and in most countries of the Asia Pacific. Most encouraging has been the leadership shown by the Japanese Government in proposing and developing the UN Decade of Education in Sustainable Development starting in 2005.
Lectures Around the World In August 2003, Hunter and her colleague, Walter Link, delivered the first class of the first accredited business school of sustainable management at Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. Unlike traditional MBA programs that may offer an elective in corporate responsibility, Presidio School of Management weaves sustainability throughout such conventional business topics as economics, accounting, finance and strategy. Hunter has also delivered lectures in courses at leading universities and colleges in the United States and abroad, including:
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business and Boalt School of Law (CA)
Stanford University (CA)
Williams College (MA)
Dartmouth College
Imperial College (London)
University of Kabul (Afghanistan)
International Finance Corporation Sustainability training (Washington D.C.)
University of Iowa, College of Engineering
Presidio School of Management (CA)
University of Wyoming
United World College
Victoria Univ. of Wellington (New Zealand)
University of Canberra (Australia)
Griffith University (Australia)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
Presidio School of Management (originally called Presidio World College) is an higher education institution based in San Francisco, California. ...
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