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L. Hunter Lovins (née Sheldon), author and promoter 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 various universities, consulted for citizens’ groups, governments and corporations. She co-founded with her then-husband Amory Lovins the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and led it for 20 years.[1] In demand as a speaker and 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 of the Planet" by Time Magazine, she has received the Right Livelihood Award, the Leadership in Business Award and dozens of other honors.[2] Lovins proposes that citizens, communities and companies, working together within the market context, are the most dynamic problem-solving force on the planet. She has worked to build teams that can create and implement practical and affordable solutions to the problems facing us in creating a sustainable future.
Lovins received her undergraduate degree in sociology and political science from Pitzer College, in Claremont, California and her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.[2] In 1979 she married Amory Lovins; they separated in 1989 and divorced in 1999.[3]
A practicing attorney (member of the California Bar), Lovins helped establish, and was for six years Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), an urban forestry and environmental education group. She served as policy adviser for Friends of the Earth under David Brower. Named Henry R. Luce visiting professor at Dartmouth College, Lovins has taught at several universities, and is currently professor of Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Management which offers an accredited MBA in sustainable management. In 1982 she co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, a 50-person research center with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. She was RMI's CEO for strategy until 2002.
Lovins 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.
Lovins 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.
Lovins has presented to an array of audiences around the world, including:
Lovins 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 Law School Award for Outstanding Community Service.[2] 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.
Lovins has co-authored nine books including Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999), and The Natural Advantage of Nations (2006), Green Development (1998), Factor 4: Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use and Least Cost Energy (1997, together with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker), and Solving the CO2 Problem (1981).
The business education programs developed by Lovins and her colleagues aim to demonstrate how socially and environmentally responsible business decisions benefit performance in corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. These programs draw upon expertise in international business, education, engineering, architecture, law, economics, and natural resources.
In August 2003, Lovins and her colleague, Walter Link, delivered the first class of the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. Lovins has also delivered lectures in courses at leading universities and colleges in the United States and abroad, including:
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