Hunter
Lovins
Hunter Lovins
is the President of Natural Capitalism Solutions and
co-author of Natural Capitalism. A renowned author
and champion of sustainable development for over 30
years, she has managed international non-profits,
taught at major universities, advised citizens' groups,
governments and corporations, created several corporations,
and is in great demand as an inspirational speaker
and effective consultant.
Hunter believes
that citizens, communities, and companies working
together within a market context are the most dynamic
problemsolving force on the planet. She has devoted
herself to building teams that can create and implement
practical, affordable solutions to the problems facing
us.
A 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 also taught at other
universities. In 1982 she founded the Rocky Mountain
Institute (RMI), a 50-person research center 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.
She was
named 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. She is 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
and the non-profit Natural Capitalism Solutions, incorporated
as a way to implement the ideas of sustainable development
on a global scale. She also helped found, and is now
a professor of business at Presidio World College,
the first school to offer an accredited MBA in sustainable
management.
See photos
from the 2004
Natural Advantage of Nations Tour,
of Australia and New Zealand.
See photos from the 2005
Sustainable Business Practice Tour,
of Australia.
After
hosting successful tours of Australia and New Zealand
by Hunter in 2004 and 2005 TNEP can now step out of
the facilitation role and into a supporting role.
Hunter and her team have ongoing relationships with
a number of groups in our region and is exploring
a number of partnerships and collaborations. With
this success behind us we are focused on our next
round of speakers including Janine Benyus in 2006
and Bill McDonough in 2008.
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