Ms. Buntje serves as Research Director for Natural Capitalism, manages the organization’s creation of new intellectual
capital. She directed the development of our Climate Protection Manual for Cities and currently directs
the development of our Climate Protection Manual for Business. Her other recent accomplishments
include lead researcher on aspects of Natural Capitalism’ consulting projects for USAID to Afghanistan and On The
Frontier (OTF) Group as well as for Clif Bar. In addition to developing presentations and researching
past publications with the Chicago Climate Exchange, her responsibilities include helping to develop
articles and books that are in the works and overseeing the internship program.
Ms. Buntje earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major in Psychology and a
minor in Business. She also studied at New South Wales University, Australia. She has worked in
financial planning, retail, mortgage banking, and marketing research before coming to Natural Capitalism.
