Recommended Resources:

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution By: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins   ISBN: 0316353000 Little Brown & Co., 1999 Email us and you can come by the office in Eldorado Springs and pick up a copy! ($15 U.S.) [Click Here] to read excerpts and download chapters.

The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century Edited by: Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves and Michael H. Smith of The Natural Edge Project Forewards by: L. Hunter Lovins, Alan AtKisson, Amory B. Lovins, William McDonough and Michael Fairbanks [Click Here] to download Hunter's forward (190 KB .pdf) ISBN: 0060533226 Earthscan, 2005

The Next Sustainability Wave By: Bob Willard Foreward by: L. Hunter Lovins ISBN: 0865715327 New Society Publishers (April 15, 2005)

Nature's Operating Instructions (Chapter: "Natural Capitalism: Where the Rubber Meets the Road") Edited by: Kenny Ausubel and J. P. Harpignies Chapter by: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins ISBN: 1-5705-099-5 Sierra Club Books, 2004

Fueling the Future (Chapter: "Boom, Bust and Efficiency") Edited by: Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon Chapter by: L. Hunter Lovins with Wyatt King ISBN: 0-88784-695-5 [Click Here] to download 131 KB .pdf

Green Development By: Alex Wilson, with L. Hunter Lovins et al ISBN: 0-471-18878-6 John Wiley and Sons, 1998

Factor Four By: Ernst von Weizskcker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins ISBN: 1-85383-497-6 Earthscan, 1997

Least Cost Energy: Solving the CO2 Problem By: Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Florentin Krause and Wilfred Bach ISBN: 0-931790-36-0 Brick House, 1989

Energy Unbound: A Fable for America's Future By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins and Seth Zuckerman ISBN: 0-87156-820-9 Sierra Club Books, 1986 [out of print]

The First Nuclear World War By: Patrick O'Heffernan with Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins ISBN: 0-688-01589-1 Morrow, 1983

Brittle Power By: L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins ISBN: 0-931790-28-X Brick House, 1982 [Click here] to download it, thanks to RMI.

Energy War: Breaking the Nuclear Link By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins ISBN: 0-913890-44-8 Friends of the Earth, 1980

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Recommended Books:

If you cannot help your community become more sustainable by buying books locally, you can buy your books through the below links and have ~5% of your purchase price donated back to NCS from Amazon.

The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0-394823-37-0 Random House Books for Young Readers (August 12, 1971)

Biomimicry By: Janine Benyus ISBN: 0060533226 Harpercollins, 1997

Capitalism at the Crossroads : The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems By: Stuart L. Hart ISBN: 0131439871 Wharton School Publishing (February 15, 2005)

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time By: Jeffrey Sachs ISBN: 1594200459 Penguin Press HC, The (March 15, 2005)

Investing In Development: A Practical Plan To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals (Un Millennium Project) By: Jeffrey D. Sachs ISBN: 1844072177 Earthscan Publications (March 30, 2005)

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The SRI Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially By: Peter Camejo ISBN: 0865714770 New Society Publishers (September 1, 2002)

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart ISBN: 0865475873 North Point Press; 1st edition (April 22, 2002)

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Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World By: Joel Makower ISBN: 0671883259 Simon & Schuster (October 1, 1994)

Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future By: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers ISBN: 0930031628 Chelsea Green Publishing Company; Reprint edition (August 1, 1993)

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Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World By: Alan AtKisson ISBN: 1890132160 Chelsea Green Publishing Company (September 1, 1999)

Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (Conscientious Commerce) By: John Elkington ISBN: 0865713928 New Society Publishers (September 1, 1998)

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Biosphere Politics: A Cultural Odyssey from the Middle Ages to the New Age By: Jeremy Rifkin ISBN: 0062506951 Harpercollins; Reprint edition (September 1, 1992)

Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature By: Dan Dagget ISBN: 096662291X Good Stewards Project (August 1, 2005)

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An Unexpected Light : Travels in Afghanistan By: Jason Elliot ISBN: 0312288468 Picador (October, 2001)

Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision By: by Joan Butterfield, Allan Savory, and Jody Butterfield ISBN: 155963488X Island Press; 2nd edition (November 1, 1998)

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Holistic Resource Management: A Model for a Healthy Planet By: Allan Savory ISBN: 0933280610 Island Press (December 1, 1988)

Articles written by Natural Capitalism staff:

The Business Case for Climate Protection

The content of this article can also be found in Chapter 2 of Natural Capitalism Solutions' Climate Protection Manual for Cities, "Why Act Now." It describes the sustainability imperative, why businesses should be addressing their greenhouse gas emissions. Stay tuned for the Climate Protection Manual for Businesses, development beginning in 2007.

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Xcel playing dirty on coal plant plan: It wants us to bear cost now for plant thatmight never materialize

By: Hunter Lovins

Boulder Daily Camera, 30 April 2006

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Sustainable Executives

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Effective Executives, May 2006

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Development as if the World Mattered

By: L. Hunter Lovins

World Affairs Journal, May 2005

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Natural Capitalism: Path to Sustainability

By: L. Hunter Lovins

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* This article is an excellent summary of the concept of Natural Capitalism *

Energy and Sustainable Agriculture By: L. Hunter Lovins and Christopher Juniper Iowa State University: the John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, 9 April 2005 [Click Here] to download 812 KB .pdf

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Making it Last By: L. Hunter Lovins YES! Magazine Cover story, September 2004 [Click Here] to read the article as HTML [Click Here] to download 55 KB .pdf

Natural Capitalism: Path to Sustainability

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Natural Resources and Environment, American Bar Association, Fall 2004

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Climate Wise: Can One Person Change the World? I've Just Seen It Done

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Greenbuzz, July 2004

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What Can I Do?

By: L. Hunter Lovins & Wyatt King

Individual actions to promote sustainability, 2003

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Pension Funds: Key to Capitalizing Natural Capitalism

By: L. Hunter Lovins & Walter Link

Why pension funds may be the largest social institution with a vested interest in sustainability, 2002

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Energy Efficiency

By: L. Hunter Lovins & Wyatt King

The relationship between energy efficiency and renewable energy, 2002

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Getting Down to Business at The World Summit: Disappearing Diplomacy, Exciting Opportunities

By: L. Hunter Lovins

The Guardian, 4 September 2002

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What is real Security?

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

YES! Magazine, Spring 2002

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Need for nuclear is passé

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

USA Today, 17 April 2001 [out of print]

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Energy Security: It Takes More Than Drilling

By: L. Hunter Lovins with R. James Woolsey and Amory Lovins

Christian Science Monitor, 28 March 2002

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Energy Forever (Part 2 of 2)

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The American Prospect, 11 February 2002

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Mobilizing Energy Solutions (Part 1 of 2)

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The American Prospect, 28 January 2002

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Brittle Times

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Buckminster Fuller Institute's Trimtab Bulletin, Winter 2001

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Getting at Trapped Equity

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Business 2.0, December 2001

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Put This in your Pipeline and Smoke It

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Grist Magazine, 20 November 2001

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A Tale of Two Botanies

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

World Business Academy, Volume 15, Year in Perspective 2001

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Frozen Assets Alaskan Oil’s Threat to NationalEnergy Security

By: Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Foreign Affairs, July-August 2001

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The False Promise of Alaskan Oil

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Foreign Affairs, July-August 2001

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Commencement Speech to Northland College

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Graduating Class May, 2001

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A Future Technology Whose Time Has Passed

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Guest Editorial USA Today, 12 April 2001

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Natural Capitalism Path to Sustainability

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Corporate Environmental Strategy, Elsevier, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2001

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The Challenge of Globalization

By: L. Hunter Lovins

The Aspen Institute's 50th Anniversary Symposium “Globalization and Culture”, 22 August 2000

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Energy Surprises for the 21st Century

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Green@Work, May /June 2000

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We can save resources while serving growth

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Denver Rocky Mountain News, 21 April 2000

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Capitalism Naturally: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

www.abcnews.go.com, 11 April 2000

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Design Failure and Conservation

By: Hunter Lovins

Conservation Biology, Volume 16, #2, April 2000

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Harnessing Corporate Power to Heal the Planet

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The World and I, April 2000

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Climate: Making Sense and Making Money

By: L. Hunter Lovins & Amory Lovins

This article served as a basis for the U.S. negotiating position at Kyoto, 13 Nov 1997

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Improving Your Bottom Line Through Sustainable Design

By: L. Hunter Lovins

DesignIntelligence, 15 November 1996

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The Next Energy Crisis

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Popular Science, September 1996

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Paying for the Growth, Prospering from Development

By: L. Hunter Lovins with Michael J. Kinsley

Chronicle & Pilot, 1 September 1995

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To Fight Spread of Nuclear Bombs: Unplug Nuclear Power

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 1995

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No proliferation: Now a Workable Idea

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Christian Science Monitor, 27 April 1995

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World has no use for nukes

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Sunday Gazette, Schenectady, NY, 30 April 1995

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Nonproliferation—Now a Workable Idea

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The New York Times 27 April 1995

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Reinventing the Wheels

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The Atlantic Monthly, January 1995

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Let's Tap Water Efficiency Before Spending on Treatment

By: Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins and Richard Pinkham

The Christian Science Monitor, May 1994

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Environmentalist Gulf Strategy: Make Fuel Efficiency, Not War

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Aspen Daily News, 25 February 1991

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The Energy Saboteurs Are in the White House

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1991

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Make Fuel Efficiency Our Gulf Strategy

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The New York Times, 03 December 1990

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How Not to Parachute More Cats

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

1989

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When the Rain Drops

By: L. Hunter Lovins with Jon Klusimire

Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1988

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Fragility of Domestic Energy

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The Atlantic Monthly, November 1983

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Reagan’s Energy Policy: Conservative or Ultraliberal?

By: Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The Washington Post, 24 November 1980

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Articles recommended by NatCap staff:

 

Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos

By: Eugene Lindon

Fortune Magazine, 17 Jan 2006

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Interviews

Backbone Cabinet Pod Cast

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EcoTalk (National Radio Show)

[Click Here] to listen to Betsy Rosenberg Interview Hunter Lovins 6 Feb 2005

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Gimme Some Lovins & Lovins Spoonful

By: L. Hunter Lovins

Grist Magazine

[Click Here] to read InterActivist Grist Editors' Interview of Hunter Lovins, 2 August 2004

[Click Here] to read Reader Questions of Hunter Lovins, 6 August 2004

Now! With Bill Moyers

[Click Here] to read the transcript of Bill Moyers' interview with Hunter Lovins 18 Jan 2002

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Links:

Environmental News Services

Environmental Events

This site lists upcoming environmental conferences worldwide.

Environmental News Service

Up to date information on environmental news worldwide.

Grist Magazine

Grist is an online environmental magazine with a daily email news service. Grist tackles environmental topics with irreverence, intelligence, and a fresh perspective. Their goal is to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage creative thinking about environmental problems and solutions.

Hunter was Grist's 3 August 2004 Activist of the week-- click here to read it!

Planet Ark

Home of the daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. Like Grist Magazine, Planet Ark also provides a daily email subscription service of environmental headlines from around the world.

 

E Magazine

Our own Hunter Lovins is on the advisory board for this bi-monthly magazine.

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Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Resources for Businesses:

Business for Social Responsibility

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a global organization that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

CERES - Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

CERES encourages corporate environmental responsibility in a number of ways, from encouraging companies to endorse the CERES Principles, working with endorsing companies both on meeting their commitment and on environmental reporting through the Global Reporting Initiative, and mobilizing the network in activist projects like the Sustainable Governance Project and the Green Hotel Initiative. They also convene forums for discussion among diverse groups, from the annual CERES conference to industry-specific dialogues.

Cool Companies

A resource featuring best practices for strategies and technologies that save energy, cut costs and reduce pollution.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Europe

CSR Europe is a business-driven membership network. Their mission is to help companies achieve profitable, sustainable growth and human progress by placing corporate social responsibility in the mainstream of business practice.

GreenBiz.com

GreenBiz.com harnesses the power of technology to bring environmental information, resources, and tools to the mainstream business community. Its mission is to provide accurate and balanced information and resources to help companies of all sizes and sectors combine ecological sustainability with profitable business practices.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

GRI is an international effort to create a common framework for sustainability reporting on economic, environmental and social performance. The mission of the GRI is to elevate the comparability and credibility of sustainability reporting practices worldwide.

SustainableBusiness.com

SustainableBusiness.com serves as the Internet community for businesses that integrate economic, and social and environmental concerns into their core strategy. They exist to help green business grow.

World Business Council on Sustainable Development

Formed in the wake of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 165 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.

WorldCSR.com

WorldCSR.com is a gateway to the websites of the leading business-led organizations on corporate social responsibility, worldwide.

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Resources:

Social Investment Forum

The Social Investment Forum site offers comprehensive information, contacts and resources on socially responsible investing.

SRInvest

SRInvest is a resource guide and information directory for individuals and companies interested in the concept and practice of socially responsible investment.

Socially Responsible Investing

SocialFunds.com is the Internet's most comprehensive personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing. This site offers coverage of social mutual funds, community investing, shareowner action and daily social investment news.

Green Money

A journal devoted to covering issues of socially and environmentally responsible business and investing.

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Sustainable Development Research, Policy and Information Organizations:

Earth Policy Institute

Founded by Lester Brown, EPI is dedicated to providing a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy - an eco-economy - looks like, as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development

The International Institute for Sustainable Development addresses the challenge of sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource mangement to make development sustainable.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. Check out the information on their Business Environmental Leadership Council.

Sustainable Development International

An online publication dedicated to educating a global audience by providing information and knowledge on all aspects of sustainable development and environmental issues through cross-media platforms.

United Nations Environment Program

A global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions.

World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute is an environmental research and policy organization that creates solutions to protect the planet and improve people's lives. WRI is an independent, non-partisan organization that works closely with governments, the private sector and civil society groups in more than 100 countries around the world. Its strength is the ability to catalyze permanent change through partnerships that implement innovative, incentive-based solutions founded upon hard, objective data. WRI believes that harnessing the power of markets will ensure real, not cosmetic, change.

Worldwatch Institute

The Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Their work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society-and how to achieve it.

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