L. Hunter Lovins is a leading authority in the area of Environmental Sustainability. She is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism Incorporated and Natural Capitalism Solutions, as well as co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) with Amory Lovins, and proceeded to lead that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into a world-renowned, independent, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, applied research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues, and the source innovative policy ideas, including Natural Capitalism. By the time she had left, the institute had grown to a staff of fifty people and a $7 million annual budget, half of which had been earned through programmatic enterprise. In 2000, Hunter was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine. In 2001, Hunter was one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Preparation Conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Lovins is also 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. 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 both her business author Paul Hawken and with Amory Lovins, was released in September 1999. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary. Recent articles by L. Hunter Lovins have appeared in World Link, World Business Academy Review, American Prospect, and Los Angeles Times.