The Business Case for Sustainability in Facilities Management

Synopsis:
Many CEOs and other C-level executives from small to large companies think implementing sustainability measures cuts into profits, and for public companies, decreases shareholder ROI.  But in our fast changing world of technology and the growing focus on corporate responsibility, companies who are not driving sustainability are at risk from insurance companies, future employees, supply chain management of vendors, and others. These risks can have a huge effect on a company’s profit and loss sheet.  Join Hunter Lovins, one of the world’s leading advisors on capitalism and sustainability experts, for a lively presentation on the business case for sustainability and raising profits. She will discuss the economic case for solving global warming, peak oil, the vulnerability of our energy infrastructure, land conservation, and others.  Innovation drives profit, and even if you do not believe in climate change, she will show how businesses are using sustainable approaches to drive innovation, increase ROI and create an advantage in today\'s market. Join us to learn more about how facility managers can convince the boardroom they must take a proactive approach to sustainability as a way to stay competitive, contribute to their firm’s integrated bottom line and drive business value. 

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER - HUNTER LOVINS
Hunter Lovins is a worldwide recognized leader in helping companies profit from sustainable business practices. She is an international consultant, professor, speaker and author on ways to use resources more efficiently to enhance business value.  Hunter is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc., a non-profit in Longmont, Colorado that works with companies, communities and countries. She presents regularly to audiences ranging from business, government, community groups and universities.  She spoke this past year in the UK, Sweden, Australia, and locally to the 2011 at the Pacific Coast Builders Show and in 2012 to the San Francisco Bay Chapter of Young Presidents Organization.
Hunter is also one of the founders of the new field of Sustainable Management, a co-developer of several MBA programs in Sustainable Management and currently serves as a Professor of Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington State. Bainbridge offers unique MBA and Certificate programs focused on sustainability.
For over 30 years, Hunter has published hundreds of articles and white papers and has authored and/or co-authored 13 books – the latest is Climate Capitalism (2011).  It is a sequel to her international best-selling book, Natural Capitalism- Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, widely considered to be an inspiration and an essential reference book.

In 2000, Hunter was named as a Time magazine “Hero for the Planet”, and in 2009 a Newsweek “Green Business Icon”.  She holds a J.D. from Loyola University, a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Sociology both from Pitzer College. In her “spare time” Hunter plays polocrosse, is a team roper and barrel racer, and is member of the Boulder County Mounted Search and Rescue Team.