L.  Hunter Lovins
Director, Natural Capitalism Group

L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is the Director of the Natural Capitalism Group of The Global Academy. Trained as a lawyer, she has managed international non-profits, created several corporations, and is in great demand as a speaker and consultant. She holds BAs from Pitzer College (Political Studies and Sociology), a JD from Loyola University School of Law (Los Angeles) with the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service, and several honorary doctorates.

Her areas of interest and expertise include Natural Capitalism, globalization, governance, land management, energy, water, green real-estate development, and community economic development. She believes that individuals working together within a market context are the most dynamic problem-solving force that there is, and has devoted herself to creating and implementing practical affordable solutions to the problems facing life, by working with corporations, communities and citizens.

Background
A member of the California Bar, she helped establish and was for six years Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), an innovative urban forestry and environmental education group. She served as Policy Advisor for Friends of the Earth, under David Brower. Named Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, Hunter has also taught at dozens of other universities.  In 1982 she founded Rocky Mountain Institute, a 50-person, research center with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise.  Until 2002, when she left to join global academy, she was RMI’s CEO for Strategy. She serves as a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization.  She was also named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep conference for Europe and North America for the Earth Summit conference. With Walter Link she is a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Jose Ramos-Horta, Vandana Shiva, George Soros and others.  The commission explores how to resolve key issues on globalization.

Publications
Lovins has co-authored nine books and dozens of papers, and was featured in the award-winning film Lovins On the Soft Path.  Her latest book, Natural Capitalism, co-authored with Amory Lovins and business author Paul Hawken, was released in September 1999 and has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary. Recent articles by her have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, American Prospect, and Los Angeles Times. She is now beginning work, with Walter Link, on a new book, The Human Dimensions of Natural Capitalism.  

Consulting
Lovins has consulted for governments and the private sector, briefing senior management at such groups as Interface, Bank of America, Allstate, Calvert Social Investment Fund, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Interface, and numerous utility companies.  Lovins' public-sector clients have included the U.S.  Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, the Bonneville Power Administration, the Solar Energy Research Institute, and the German Federal Environment Agency. She has addressed such audiences as the U.S. Congress, The World Economic Forum at Davos, the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the World's Fair Energy Symposia, the Industrial Designers Society’s WorlDesign, the Epiphany service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the State of the World Forum, Bioneers, the Global Economic Forum, the World Watch State of the World Conference and hundreds of conferences and college symposia. She has appeared on numerous television shows including "60 Minutes," "Good Morning America," Pat Robertson's "700 Club", "Merv Griffin," Bill Moyers’ NOW and hundreds of news programs. 

Corporate Service
Lovins has served on the Boards of one government, two private corporations, and many public interest groups. She advises numerous companies and nonprofits, including GreenMountain.com. She was a founding director of RMI’s second for-profit spin-off, E source, until its 1999 sale for $18 million to the Financial Times group.

Awards
Lovins has 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, and the 1999 Lindbergh Award for Environment and Technology. She has received several honorary doctorates. In 2000 she was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine, and received the Loyola University award for Outstanding Community Service. In 2001 she received the Leadership in Business Award and shared the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Research.

Personal
In her spare time, Hunter serves on the local fire/rescue service as an Emergency Medical Technician, and is President of Nighthawk Horse Company.  She trains polocrosse horses, and competes at polocrosse and rodeo. (top)