L. Hunter Lovins

Drivers of Change: the Sustainability Imperative
TIME CHANGE: Saturday, July 28, 3:00 pm

L. Hunter Lovins is President and Founder of the non-profit organization, Natural Capitalism Solutions. Ms. Lovins holds a JD, several honorary doctorates and co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute  in 1982, where she served as CEO for 20 years.  She has extensive, hands-on experience with economic development, forestry, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and construction of sustainable buildings. Ms. Lovins has lectured extensively in over 15 countries, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos, the International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Shanghai, the Annual General Meeting of UNIDO, the Global Economic Forum and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She has consulted for industries and governments worldwide, as well as such multinational companies as Shell Oil, GE and the International Finance Corporation, and has also worked with many community groups, local economic development agencies and small municipal NGO's. In addition, she created the Economic Renewal Project, helping to write much of its work on sustainable community economic development, served on the State of the World Forums' Commission on Globalization and was one of four people from North America named to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep conference for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Recently, Ms. Lovins has worked on projects in Afghanistan, including "Green Afghanistan" and the Afghan Cluster Competitiveness Project with a variety of U.S. government, United Nations and donor agencies. Hunter Lovins has co-authored nine books, including the 1999 book Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution and hundreds of papers, including briefings for President's Clinton and Bush and British Prime Minster Tony Blair.