Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins in the chairman and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute. He describes the Rocky Mountain Institute as a "think and do tank". Amory Lovins has written several books including Winning the Oil Game. He is best known... [more]

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Amory Lovins: The Guru of Whole Systems Thinking #AU2009

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Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute spoke today at Autodesk University about whole systems thinking and the importance of working backward from the desired end result. Lovins calls this approach integrative design or whole system thinking, and he’s a recognized genius on the order of Buckminster Fuller, Raymond Kurzweil and other luminaries. Read Full Story

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Nuclear Roundup – New Plant Costs are Coming Down and Why Amory Lovins is Wrong in Three Parts

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1. The official price tag for Georgia Power’s share of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle is $1.5 billion lower than when the company requested permission to build them, according to testimony Tuesday in front of the Georgia Public Service Commission. Projected construction costs dropped, Mr. Burleson said, because the company is avoiding some interest by charging its customers for the reactors before they begin operation. Customers are paying about $1.30 per month for the reactors; the charge will rise by that amount each year until it tops out at $9.00 per month. When the plants open in six years, the surcharge should stop. ... Read Full Story

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Simple Isn't It

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Amory Lovins Environmentalist: Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital.. the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. Amory Lovins - Economy - Challenges - Environmental Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities. Amory Lovins - Life - People - Questions - Business Ethics - Leadership If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find ... Read Full Story

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Remodeling Amory Lovins’ home

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Amory Lovins’ house Between 1982 and 1984, more than 100 volunteers and a dozen professional builders helped RMI cofounder Amory Lovins construct a state-of-the art energy-efficient home in Old Snowmass, Colo. The house would draw almost all of its space and water-heat from solar energy, use about a tenth the usual amount of household electricity, and grow bananas passively over 7,000 feet above sea-level in the Rocky Mountains. Way ahead of its time then, this private residence and RMI headquarters has just leaped forward another twenty years. We are in the last throes of a major renovation of Amory’s landmark home. The project will ... Read Full Story

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Energy Subsidies and Amory Lovins Misdirection on Private versus Government Money

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Correcting Amory Lovins Grist Aricle: Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic Amory Lovins tries to indicate that nuclear power is unique in getting governments paying for its development. * Per KWH nuclear gets less support than renewable energy Energy Information Agency calculation of per KWH support: Source – subsidy and support in dollars per megawatt-hour (mills per kilowatt-hour) Nuclear – 1.59 Biomass (and biofuels) – 0.89 Geothermal – 0.92 Hydroelectric – 0.67 Solar- 24.34 Wind – 23.37 Landfill Gas – 1.37 Municipal Solid Waste – 0.13 Renewables (average) – 2.80 Total (average) -1.65 Energy subsidies in the US and around ... Read Full Story

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AU Bite #2: Make Mine Short, Fat and Straight

LAS VEGAS, NV (Autodesk University) , Dec 1, 2009 - Amory Lovins is doing the keynote for AU. If there was no sound, you might dismiss Amory as a very unhip character. Dweeby with a slight paunch, he looks like...

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Amory Lovins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. His four decades of work spans and integrates energy policy, resources, security, economy, environment, and development.

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Amory Lovins: 'Efficiency is cheaper than fuel'

Amory Lovins is chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy and resources think-tank. Lovins talked to EarthSky about saving energy... and saving money. When it comes to energy, he said, efficiency is cheaper than fuel. [...]

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Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Four (The “Role of Government Myth” and...

This is the fourth and final post from us that looks critically at the bogus claims in Amory Lovins’ latest study.“Role of Government Myth”In his new book, Stewart Brand states (p. 84):…Energy policy is a matter of such scale, scope, speed, and patient follow-through that only a government can embrace it all. You can’t get decent grid power without decent government power.In reply, Amory Lovins asserts (p. 19, pdf):…nuclear power requires...

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