Natural Capitalism Solutions

NCS helps clients implement innovative yet pragmatic solutions to corporate sustainability challenges. Our approach is grounded in corporate reality, helping clients seize opportunities, increase profitability and create competitive advantage while responding to pressing global challenges. Through our work, NCS has consulted for companies representing 3 percent of the U.S. GDP – collectively saving over $4 Million for these companies through energy efficiency and sustainable design over the past three years. NCS Corporate  Services Include:

Employee Training

Employees are an organization’s greatest asset, but when it comes to sustainability they are often left out.
Learn how NCS’ online training programs can train and engage employees, driving profitably, enhancing innovation, and maximizing the return on sustainability initiatives.

Strategic Sustainability Planning

Creating a profitable sustainability strategy requires more than setting emission reduction targets and instituting a recycling program – it takes thoughtful strategy, innovative process design and monetized performance metrics. Discover how we work with clients to develop and execute strategic sustainability programs.

Integrated Bottom Line

Every manager knows that non-financial performance contributes to the financial bottom line and vice versa, but how can you prove it? See how the integrated bottom line is changing how the world accounts for sustainability.

Other Services

The global business environment is volatile and constantly changing, creating new challenges and opportunities. As a leading sustainable practitioner, we work on a wide range of issues, from redesigning industry in Asia on behalf of the United Nations, to helping local utilities transition to renewable energy, but all of our projects focus on implementing the business case for sustainability.

Got something else in mind? NCS routinely creates and conducts customized research projects, providing independent, business-critical research to help clients stay ahead of the curve and advance sustainability on an array of topics. Through Natural Capitalism Solutions’ decades of experience and robust network of associates, we can help you identify best practices from the leading practitioners in the field.

Now accepting applications for the Summer 2015 program.
Application deadline March 6th.

Are you looking for more sustainability education in a cutting-edge, dynamic organization that promotes, supports, and teaches sustainability? Are you ready to put theory into practice in the real world? Are you passionate about making a difference? If so, join us as an intern at Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS), a non-profit that works with companies, communities, countries, and governments to increase sustainability, efficiency, and profits.

Hunter Lovins and the Natural Capitalism Solutions team create tools to enable businesses and industry to implement sustainable practices. As an intern at NCS you will learn how to research and analyze existing management tools, techniques, and actual practices of organizations pursuing sustainability. Interns learn by doing, developing new tools and strategies.

At Natural Capitalism Solutions, interns have the opportunity to:

• Receive training and pragmatic experience in the field of sustainability consulting
• Work with the NCS team and sustainability pioneer, Hunter Lovins.
• Take active part in innovative discussions and planning sessions involving critical thinking about sustainability issues and practice.
• Research, compose, and prepare background materials for various levels of project work.
• Gain practical research experience in the sustainability field.
• Help create tools to assist businesses and industry to develop sustainable practices and become sustainable organizations.
• See the direct results of your work on the structure of capitalism.
• Receive recognition for work on published reports.
• Participate in local conferences, industry & networking events, staff meetings, and company outings.
• Hear world-class speakers from various fields pertaining to sustainability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A desire to learn,
• Past research experience,
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office,
• Ability to be flexible and multitask,
• Awesomeness, and
• Knowledge of the Principles of Natural Capitalism.

The internship is unpaid and requires 15-25 hours per week (flexible).

Interns are required work out of the Longmont office for the majority of the internship, not remotely or off-site.

Internship Positions

Throughout the program interns will assist with a variety of tasks but will typically follow one major project. Our current internships are listed below, find the one that fits your interests:

Sustainability Implementation Intern

Now accepting applications for Summer 2015 | Application deadline March 6th

Sustainability Implementation Interns assist project managers on various levels of corporate work. Specific projects depend on client needs and can incorporate any of our services. Interns receive training in our approach. They are expected to take responsibility and ask questions. Interns will gain experience in project work, and can assist on all levels from proposal writing to initial research to composition toward the final report. Sustainability Implementation Interns will typically work on one project throughout their internship but should be flexible in order to assist on other projects as the need arises.