10 year anniversary - natural capitalism

Photo courtesy of Norm Clasen (NCS Board)

Natural Capitalism a 501(c)3 is an internationally recognized leader in sustainability education, strategy, and implementation.

We have decades of experience helping corporate and government clients, collectively representing over 3% of U.S. GDP.

Implementing Genuine SustainabilityNatural Capitalism Solutions

Just Another Day on the Job

With Yvon ChouinardSustainable Pioneer Awards / Zurich

Changing the way business is done worldwide

Think this is lofty? We hope so.

We are a small team with big goals. We magnify our impact by working with and educating other

organizations and individuals that share our vision.


How?

By Working With Leading Corporations

How? By Working With Leading Corporations

As a non-profit we believe in working with organizations that are authentic in their pursuit of sustainability.

This doesn’t mean altruism – we believe businesses should pursue sustainability because it increases profitability and manages risks.

It does mean that our clients should be committed to implementing sustainability and not just talking about it.


Hunter and I were at Walmart's headquarters when CEO Lee Scott introduced their head of marketing. He shares a slide deck that looks like a standard NCS business case deck. Hunter and I looked at each other, "Wow, did we drop down the rabbit hole? Was it the blue pill or the red pill?”

Jeff Hohensee, Former CEO

Wish I Could Be There

By the end of the session Hunter was in front of 500 people throwing a copy of the SmallMart Revolution into the audience asking them what they were going to do about the legitimate concerns about their business model.

• 96% concentrate - less water shipped

•Using the right mix reduces chemicals by 50%

• Boeing used the system to reduce from 1,000 chemicals to 15 from PortionPac

• Color coded reduces errors

• Greenseal certified

• Joining Chicago Climate Exchange

• Sells cleaning services instead of chemicals - incentive to reduce use


Hunter’s energy level to meet, lecture, write and learn from people all over the world seems to be one of the great secrets to her success. Not sure what she is drinking but it should be bottled and sold to the rest of us.

Marvin KleinPortion Pac Cleaning


Hunter Lovins @hlovinsWelcome to global weirding: it's snowing on me now in Boulder. Course it's Colorado: if you don't like the weather, wait a moment

Hunter Lovins @hlovinsBucking hay the old fashioned way walking beside the big ol flatbed hefting 90lb bales neath the high blue Colorado sky meadowlarks trilling

Hunter Lovins @hlovinsPartying w/ my rodeoing friends, all of us in a truck hauling north to Wyoming for a Bren Hill concert: whiskey, cowboy music & good friends

@hlovins

https://twitter.com/hlovins

"NCS provided Clif Bar with a cost-effective approach to understanding our ingredients all the way from the field to our final product.

The team at NCS is world renowned and a great advisor on how sustainability can materially help a business operate”

Diana Simmons, Clif Bar


Highlights include:

• Preventing over 250,00 metric tons of CO2, which is the equivalent of taking almost 50,000 cars off the road.

• Worked with over 175 cities, governments, and businesses—over 35 in Colorado alone!

• Helped clients be able to create new jobs, while lessening their environmental impact by saving over $7 million through resource efficiency and sustainable design projects.


Covers all marketing and promotion materials

Helps Red Bull effectively communicate with vendors

Educates purchasing and procurement staff on sustainability

Sustainable Purchasing Policy


~Curt Johnson, Chair of Diversey


“Our Experience has been that for

every dollar invested in

sustainability you get two dollars

back.”

How? Custom Online Employee Engagement

http://natcapsolutions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=242&Itemid=53

How? Custom Online Employee Engagement

Here's to you Hunter and the NCS team - You are a hearty blend of visionaries and implementors. You see possibilities where other don't see. You are gritty, genuine and smart as hell.

AJ Grant



How?

By Empowering Small Businesses


How? By Empowering Small Businesses

For the past eight years we have been working

with small businesses to help them profit by implementing more

sustainable practices.



Transit & Travel

Lighting

Transit Alternatives & Business Travel

Daylighting, Controls & Equipment

Heating & CoolingInsulation, HVAC

WaterWater Use & Water Heating

WasteReduce, Reuse, Compost & Recycle

Solutions @ the Speed of BusinessInteractive Implementation Software

Office EquipmentPower Management, Purchasing

Provides step-by-step action plans and practical tools that make

implementing efficiency – not just learning about it - fast and effective.


Solutions @ the Speed of Business

TobyRussell

LilyThaisz

HunterLovins

JimThompson

Dear Hunter,

It has been far too long.

Despite having increased my carbon footprint with the arrival of Beatrice here, I am still very committed to the cause.

Thanks for the support that you have given me in my chosen cause - education. Your enthusiasm and energy are infectious.

- Jim Thompson

Happy tenth anniversary to Natural Capitalism.

Wish I were able to join you all and toast your future with a whisky.

Always Welcome in Scotland. There are still lots of malts here that you haven’t yet tasted!

Love and best wishes

Jim Thompson


Solutions 4 Sustainability

S4S is a program for Cities, Counties, Utilities, non-profits and other organizations who seek

to reduce energy and resource usage for small business communities while enhancing their

profitability.

TobyRussell

LilyThaisz

KaraSeeley

SteveWilton

How? By Empowering Small BusinessesPartners who NCS has ran programs with:

Wyoming SBDCS4S Component:

Educational Programs


City of San RafaelS4S Component:

Educational Programs


Toby Russell @toby_ncs NY Times gives a shout out to NCS for helping small businesses be more sustainable

RT: Great work from @natcapsolutions 30+ studies, including those wild-eyed environmentalists at Goldman Sachs, have proven the biz case for sustainability

RT: Great to see how @gundersenluth hospital was inspired by #Natural Capitalism + @hlovins to start their journey bit.ly/JLwjHd

@RachelsNetwork Let's fix our #environmental problems using good 'ole American ingenuity & #innovation. Hunter Lovins,@natcapsolutions (Yeah!) #RNSF12

NCS Praise on Twitter


How?

Resigning the Way the World Works

How does nature

do business?

NCS Board Member,Janine Benyus

How? Redesigning the Way The World Works

#With Jigme Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan


Hunter with Richard Branson and Bill Clinton

Between 2007 and 2011, the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) has engaged hundreds of thought leaders to produce scores of recommendations on how the President of the United States could improve the nation's climate and energy security.


BillBecker

#With Jim Wolsey, former head of CIA

sara_donoso Un honor estar con la gran @hlovins @efizity @ppsilvag @cwolleter http://t.co/9RZZ17iD

marcelomena @hlovins people are telling my how awesome you were today in your talk in Vitacura!

Chile 2012Clean Tech

Open

Twitter Chatter


http://twitter.com/hlovins

http://twitter.com/efizity

http://twitter.com/ppsilvag

http://twitter.com/cwolleter

http://t.co/9RZZ17iD

http://twitter.com/hlovins

NCS' Future We Want was chosen by the UN to headline its global gathering on sustainability.


BillBecker

“As I have tried to navigate my career and have the maximum positive impact on climate change and the environment at any time, the one constant at times of change has been Hunter. The result of this is that her impact on my life has been far greater than she can imagine. I will always be grateful for her energy, kindness, passion and generosity of spirit. Thank you so much for all you do, Hunter, and congratulation on a big achievement with ten years of NCS.”

Tom CarnacManaging Director, CDP North America


#intelligence2 / New York

Worked in over 30 countries globally implementing sustainability.

From Jamaica, to Serbia, to Afghanistanand many more…


Economic Development

US

AID

Afghanistan Eric Rasmussen

Hunter Lovins

#HunterInAfghanistan

World Summit on Sustainable Development

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South Africa Hunter Lovins

United Nations: Redesigning Industry in Asia

Emily Evans

CatherineGreener

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Addressing the UN / Manila

Treasure America

Intensive initiative to promote sound economic policy in the United States and the preservation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


Hunter’s straight talking, heart centered, intellectual and emotional rigor has been a compass for all of us for the last 30 years and will be for many more years to come. Much love, respect and congratulations."

Simon MainwaringFounder/author We First



How?

Creating a Clean Energy Future

NCS’ CLEAN Coalition (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now) has pushed the State of California to launch a 750 MW CLEAN Program in early 2013 with a vastly expanded program following within a year or two. In addition, the Long Island Power Authority has already launched a highly successful 50 MW CLEAN Program and is now seeking guidance on a vastly expanded program.

How? Creating a Clean Energy Future

“I speak for the entire CLEAN Coalition team when I say how grateful we are to Natural Capitalism Solutions. Although we have only been partners for 3 of NCS’ 10 years, I know that the best is yet to come for all of us.”

- Craig Lewis, Executive Director


Alaska Energy Roadmap Coal Plant in TransitionDemonstrates how Alaskan’s can meet electricity needs in 2025, using as little as 50% of the electricity used in the year 2000.

Outlined a profitable transition from old coal plants to efficiency and renewables.


Paul Sheldon

Increasing the efficiency with which Fairbanks meets its electricity needs will create jobs, increase business incomes, and provide overall economic development for the Community.


Paul Sheldon

Hunter and Natural Capitalism Solutions are a critical part of our intellectual civic infrastructure, regularly making breathtakingly smart arguments for a clean energy future for the country and the globe.

Michael Northrop, Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund


#RightLivelihoodAward / Austria


How?

Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

Unreasonable Institute

Education

Bard

BGI Madrone Sustainability Leadership

Sustainable MBA

In the TellingAASHE

How? Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

University of ColoradoColorado State UniversityUniversity of CaliforniaMITArizona State UniversityUniversity of Arkansas

Yale UniversityStanford UniversityWilliams CollegeUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of IowaAASHEEnvirolution

For a long time Hunter has been a guiding light for me and it has been a fantastic pleasure getting to know her. NCS bailed me out when my old NGO board had a cue and her team took me under their wing until I found ground again. Thank you for everything and I look forward to continuing our journey at Bard Sustainability MBA program.

Eban Goodstein, Director, Bard MBA in Sustainability



Certificate in Sustainability Leadership and Implementation

Congratulations Hunter and team for 10 years of inspiration and education. A modern generation understands and guards the principles of sustainability in all they do.

Greg MillerNCS Associate and past Google.org


@AndrewWinston: > @hloviins shows best way to get standing ovation - Agreed & well deserved. What a gr8 opening #sb12con

@lewisperkins Glad to see Hunter Lovins remains on fire. Looking forward to reading her book #sb12con

@MollyLearnGreen Pumped for @hlovins keynote at the #sustainability forum! Inspire me Hunter!

RT:@hlovins you are inspiring & tonight's lecture was amazing. The amazing part is how much one person can do in one life. @designmba #ler5

Hunter Inspires

Hunter @ the University of Queensland


Hunter has supported hundreds of young, up and coming, NCS staff and interns to enter the sustainability workforce. Hunter's belief in people and her faith in a young person's raw potential is both inspiring, and catalyzes amazing leaders.

Jeff Hohensee, Former CEO


Over ten years we’ve educated more than 100 interns ranging from undergrads to experienced individuals.

Now employed at:


NCS Interns!

NCS Interns!

Jeremy ‘06

Brianna

‘05

Kate ‘06

Michael ‘06

Bike to Work Day 2012

The reason I believe in Hunter Lovins is because at her core she is one of the most humble, caring, and integral people I've known. And that is why she's changing the world. Because she refuses to do anything but be exactly who she is.

She refuses to be anything but unreasonable.

Teju Ravilochan, Co-Founder and CEO, Unreasonable Institute



How?

Creating Sustainable Communities

Was sponsored by Paradigm Nouveau Enterprises.

The Johnson Foundation and the Global Energy Center for Community Sustainability (GEC) asked NCS to create a climate protection how to manual for cities of all sizes.

How? Creating Sustainable Communities

Climate Protection Manual For Cities

Rocky Anderson,ex-Mayor of Salt Lake City

“Never before have mayors had such a detailed, helpful resource for implementing strategies that will significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses. You [NCS] have performed such an important service—and with incredible competence and class.”

Climate Protection Manual For Cities


Clean Energy Incubator City of Longmont

Determined feasibility of starting a clean energy incubator in Longmont.

NickSterling

HannaSchum


Bernard Leitier Christopher Juniper

Gwen Hallsmith

LASER is a powerful tool that provides a clear methodology to enable a community to define goals and targets, develop strategies, and measure progress

BriannaBuntje


Sustainable Agriculture in Boulder County

Examined literature and agricultural practices in the county to help Boulder County Parks and Open Space better manage our agricultural land.


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@AmanSinghCSR - Listening to @hlovins at #sb12con:

"Frankly the earth doesn't believe whether u believe in #climatechange or global warming. It's science"

@AmanSinghCSR - Yes Nick_NCS @SustainBrands: "We need to entrepreneur our way out. This is what made America great" @hlovins #sb12con vsb.li/MvE4K7

SaraBAllan My favorite quotation - "You can't have infinite growth on a finite planet." We need sustainability. @hlovins is so articulate#sb12con

Quotable Moments

“If Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was the bible for the first Industrial Revolution, then Natural Capitalism may well prove to be it for the next

- Peter Senge

If you wonder whether there is any hope of humankind’s dealing successfully with climate change, read this book.

- Ray Anderson

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