Hunter Lovins
Bard College, MBA in Sustainability, Faculty Member
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2016
L. Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably.
A distinguished professor, and creator of educational programs, she serves now as a founding Professor of Sustainable Management at Bard MBA. Hunter lectures at colleges and universities around the globe, from Harvard to the University of Cagliari to the Australian National University.
Twice named Regents' Lecturer in the University of California system (1979 in Economics, University of California, Riverside, and 2014 in Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley) Hunter served as Luce Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth in 1982.
Named a Master at the Chinese De Tao Academy, Hunter helped De Tao launch the Institute for Green Investment in Shanghai. In 2015 she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Fowler Center at Case Western University, and is a core founder of the Leading for Well-being Consortium. She is the Kearney Fellow at Regis University’s College of Business and Economics SEED Regenerative Development program.
She is author of 15 books and hundreds of articles that have appeared from Science and Nature to the Guardian and Huffington Post, for whom she is a registered blogger. Her 1999 book, Natural Capitalism, has been translated into more than 35 languages. Her 2012 book, The Way Out, won the Atlas Award. Hunter has twice won the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Research on Manufacturing. She is currently lead author on the book, A Finer Future, a report to the Club of Rome detailing how humanity can avoid total system collapse.
Hunter has worked in economic development from Afghanistan to New Zealand, and served the King of Bhutan on his International Expert Working Group, charged with reinventing the global economy. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome, the steering committee of the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity and Capital Institute Advisory Board. A founding mentor of the Unreasonable Institute, Hunter teaches entrepreneurship and coaches social enterprises around the world. She is also a founding partner in Change Finance, an impact-investing firm, and advises such Fortune 500 companies as Unilever, Walmart, Royal Dutch Shell Apple, and others, as well as such small businesses as Clif Bar and Patagonia. She was also part of helping the International Finance Corporation create the Equator Principles (principles governing investment in developing countries.)
Hunter has won dozens of awards from the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel), Leadership in Business, The Rachel Carson Award to the Eorupean Sustainability Pioneer award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon. In 2015 she received the Academy of Management’s Humanistic Management Network. Lifetime Achievement Award.edit
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The challenge of sustainable development creates unprecedented demands for learning, thinking, planning and decision-making. Economic, social, and environmental performance must all be improved, usually all at the same time, and often... more
The challenge of sustainable development creates unprecedented demands for learning, thinking, planning and decision-making. Economic, social, and environmental performance must all be improved, usually all at the same time, and often against a backdrop of one or more critically negative trends. All too often, these trends act together to reinforce each other. As if that were not complicated enough, the challenge is often compounded by the need to work in diverse, multi-stakeholder groups-- and to achieve consensus on a set of actions that everyone believes will actually produce results. Finally, initiatives seeking to promote sustainability are often doing so under a sense of time urgency, with limited resources. They do not have time or money to waste on suboptimal solutions or difficult-to-achieve agreements. We developed the process we call Pyramid to address these needs, building on a dozen years of work with sustainability and community development initiatives around the world...
www.efmd.org Taking the first steps towards understanding, implementing and managing sustainability from a cost/profit perspective.
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Some countries have been more successful than others at dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. When we explore the different policy approaches adopted as well as the underlying socio-economic factors, we note an interesting set of... more
Some countries have been more successful than others at dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. When we explore the different policy approaches adopted as well as the underlying socio-economic factors, we note an interesting set of correlations: countries led by women leaders have fared significantly better than those led by men on a wide range of dimensions concerning the global health crisis. In this paper, we analyze available data for 35 countries, focusing on the following variables: number of deaths per capita due to COVID-19, number of days with reported deaths, peaks in daily deaths, deaths occurred on the first day of lockdown, and excess mortality. Results show that countries governed by female leaders experienced much fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita and were more effective and rapid at flattening the epidemic’s curve, with lower peaks in daily deaths. We argue that there are both contingent and structural reasons that may explain these stark differences. First of all, most w...
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In this symposium five leading management thought leaders will present their perspectives on the future of governance of the Academy of Management itself. Starting off, two former presidents of the Academy of Management (Don Hambrick and... more
In this symposium five leading management thought leaders will present their perspectives on the future of governance of the Academy of Management itself. Starting off, two former presidents of the Academy of Management (Don Hambrick and Anne Tsui) will represent an internal perspective on how opening governance can help the AOM itself. Then two public intellectuals (Otto Scharmer and Hunter Lovins) will suggest ways the AOM can open governance more effectively to include ultimate stakeholders of practice, the public and the environment.
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Natural Capitalism: Path to Sustainability? L. Hunter Lovins We live in interesting times. Environmental lawyers frequently define their job as advis-ing their clients on laws and the sorts of is-sues taught in law school. The challenges... more
Natural Capitalism: Path to Sustainability? L. Hunter Lovins We live in interesting times. Environmental lawyers frequently define their job as advis-ing their clients on laws and the sorts of is-sues taught in law school. The challenges now facing the world, however, will require lawyers, ...
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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... more
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 do not address the growing climate and other environmental problems and continue to damage the ecological life-support systems on which we all depend, particularly the poor. We fail to anticipate and deal with the constraints inherent in our dependence on finite resources such as fossil fuels. It is a future that is not sustainable and also not desirable to the vast majority of humans.
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There are still too many companies out there that delay the integration of green into their lean operations, arguing that investment in green will disadvantage them against the competition. Managers whom still don’t have a solid plan for... more
There are still too many companies out there that delay the integration of green into their lean operations, arguing that investment in green will disadvantage them against the competition. Managers whom still don’t have a solid plan for going green or, even worse, in doubt whether going green pays off, must have a look at companies like Toyota, WalMart, DuPont, Tesco, Unilever, Marks and Spencer and General Electric, all of whom have invested heavily in greening their products and processes over the past few years. Unilever plans to double its revenue over the next 10 years while halving the environmental impact of its products. GE is well on course to reduce the energy intensity of its operations by 50% by 2015. Tesco has announced that it will reduce emissions from stores and distribution centres by half by 2020 and that it will altogether become a zero-carbon business by 2050. WalMart’s Zero Waste initiative claims that more than 80% of waste generated in its U.S. operations has...
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Purpose This paperaims to review how the field of lean and green has been evolving. Authors draw parallels between the fields of sustainability and quality management. The paper’s title is borrowed and modified from Crosby’s seminal book:... more
Purpose This paperaims to review how the field of lean and green has been evolving. Authors draw parallels between the fields of sustainability and quality management. The paper’s title is borrowed and modified from Crosby’s seminal book: Quality is Free. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with a review on how early lean researchers in the late 1980s draw upon benchmark studies, looking at Toyota versus other auto manufacturers to demonstrate that quality is free. Similarly, the authors carry out a benchmark to show how the same argument is valid about Toyota’s environmental performance and how Toyota’s concept of Monozukuri can be exploited as proof for the environment is free movement. The paper concludes with an attempt to address the gap between theory and practice in the field of lean and green. Findings The starting point for creating a lean and green business system is the understanding that there is no trade-off between lean and green, that lean and green should be...
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The nuclear proliferation problem, as posed, is insoluble. All policies to control proliferation have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to reduce dependence on oil, economically desirable, and... more
The nuclear proliferation problem, as posed, is insoluble. All policies to control proliferation have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to reduce dependence on oil, economically desirable, and inevitable; that efforts to inhibit the concomitant ...
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In the form of an instructive fable, two energy experts expound their trademark ``soft path`` energy philosophy, which is based on cost-effective and energy-sufficient technologies, citizen action, and a free-market economy.^ In the... more
In the form of an instructive fable, two energy experts expound their trademark ``soft path`` energy philosophy, which is based on cost-effective and energy-sufficient technologies, citizen action, and a free-market economy.^ In the fable, Eunice Anderson, a budget-conscious ...
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10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Natural Capitalism Natural Capitalism THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PAUL HAWKEN AMORY B. LOVINS & L. HUNTER LOVINS with a new Introduction by Amory B. Lovins and Paul Hawken ... PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION... more
10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Natural Capitalism Natural Capitalism THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PAUL HAWKEN AMORY B. LOVINS & L. HUNTER LOVINS with a new Introduction by Amory B. Lovins and Paul Hawken ... PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Three world-...
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Policies to control the spread of nuclear weapons have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to replace oil, is both economically desirable and inevitable, and that the international political order must... more
Policies to control the spread of nuclear weapons have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to replace oil, is both economically desirable and inevitable, and that the international political order must remain inherently discriminatory and dominated ...
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... 253 Page 10. 254 innovations / fall 2009 In 2009, AT Kearney released the findings of their report, Green Winners, comparing the economic performance of companies with a commitment to sus-tainability to that of companies in the same... more
... 253 Page 10. 254 innovations / fall 2009 In 2009, AT Kearney released the findings of their report, Green Winners, comparing the economic performance of companies with a commitment to sus-tainability to that of companies in the same industry without such a commitment. ...
PRAISE FOR FACTOR POUR 'Factor Four made my spine tingle. This is a book which captures the moment, which crystallises a set of seemingly conflicted trends and issues around a simple idea... carries you away with its optimism and... more
PRAISE FOR FACTOR POUR 'Factor Four made my spine tingle. This is a book which captures the moment, which crystallises a set of seemingly conflicted trends and issues around a simple idea... carries you away with its optimism and can-do spirit, its hard facts and concrete ...
The nuclear proliferation problem, as posed, is insoluble. All policies to control proliferation have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to reduce dependence on oil, economically desirable, and... more
The nuclear proliferation problem, as posed, is insoluble. All policies to control proliferation have assumed that the rapid worldwide spread of nuclear power is essential to reduce dependence on oil, economically desirable, and inevitable; that efforts to inhibit the concomitant ...
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CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People... more
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral ( ...