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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. Lovins worked professionally as an environmentalist in the 1970s and since then as an analyst of and advocate for a "soft energy path" for the United States and other nations. He has promoted energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy sources, and the generation of energy at or near the site where the energy is actually used. Lovins has also advocated a "negawatt revolution" arguing that utility customers don’t want kilowatt-hours of electricity; they want energy services. In the 1990s, his work with Rocky Mountain Institute included the design of an ultra-efficient automobile, the Hypercar. Lovins has received ten honorary doctorates and won many awards. He has provided expert testimony in eight countries and more than 20 US states, briefed 19 heads of state, and published 29 books. These books include Winning the Oil Endgame, Small is Profitable, Factor Four, and Natural Capitalism.
[edit] Early history and personal lifeLovins spent much of his youth in Silver Spring, Maryland and in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1964, Lovins entered Harvard College. After two years there, interrupted by a year's medical leave, he transferred in 1967 to Magdalen College, Oxford, England, where he studied physics and other topics. In 1969 he became a Junior Research Fellow in Oxford’s Merton College, where he studied for two years and received an Oxford master of arts (M.A.) as a result of becoming a university don. However, the University would not allow him to pursue a doctorate in energy (it was two years before the 1973 oil embargo, so energy was not yet considered an academic subject), so he resigned the Fellowship and moved to London to pursue his energy work. He moved back to the U.S. in 1981 and settled in Western Colorado in 1982. [1] He has received many honorary degrees recognizing his work.[1] In 1979 he married L. Hunter Sheldon, a lawyer, forester, and social scientist. Hunter received her undergraduate degree in sociology and political studies from Pitzer College, and her J.D. from Loyola University's School of Law. They separated in 1989 and divorced in 1999.[2] In 2007, he married Judy Hill Lovins, a fine-art landscape photographer. [edit] Work[edit] Friends of the EarthIt was during his days in the UK that Lovins's career as a writer began. Having become a devotee of Snowdonia National Park, in 1971 he wrote about the endangered Welsh park in a book, Eryri, the Mountains of Longing, commissioned by David Brower, president of the environmental organization Friends of the Earth.[3] Each summer (except 1968) from about 1965 to 1981, Lovins guided mountaineering trips and photographed in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, contributing photographs to another of David Brower's Exhibit Format Books, "At Home in the Wild: New England's White Mountains" (Appalachian Mountain Club / New York Graphic Society / FOE, 1978). Lovins spent about a decade as British Representative for Friends of the Earth. He wrote a number of other books published by FOE. During this time his interests settled specifically into the area of resource policy, and most especially, energy policy. An essay that he originally penned as a U.N. paper grew into his first book concerned with energy, World Energy Strategies (1973). His next major work was co-authored with John H. Price and titled Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975). The shock of the 1973 energy crisis helped create an audience for his ideas, and he appealed to this new audience with the publication of his 10,000-word essay "Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" published in Foreign Affairs, in October 1976. Its concepts were the subject of many seminars at government departments, universities, energy agencies, and nuclear energy research centers, during 1975-1977.[4] The article was elaborated in Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace in 1977. [edit] Rocky Mountain Institute
By 1978 Lovins had published six books, consulted widely, and was active in energy affairs in some 15 countries, as synthesist and lobbyist. In 1982, he and his then wife, Hunter, founded Rocky Mountain Institute, based in Snowmass, Colorado. Together with a group of colleagues, the Lovinses fostered efficient resource use and policy development that they believed would help make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.[3] Hunter Lovins left RMI in 2002. Working with many in-house and external specialists, RMI focused on efforts to transform to radical resource efficiency, and the other principles of natural capitalism, numerous sectors including automotive (they designed a hydrogen-powered "hypercar"[6] to provide an example to Detroit), electricity, water, semiconductor, and real estate. Lovins has briefed 19 heads of state, provided expert testimony in eight countries and more than 20 states, and published 29 books and several hundred papers. His clients have included Accenture, Allstate, AMD, Anglo American, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter, Borg-Warner, BP, HP Bulmer, Carrier, Chevron, CIBA-Geigy, CLSA, Coca-Cola, ConocoPhillips, Corning,Deutsche Bank, Dow, Equitable, Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Holcim, Interface, Invensys, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Motorola, Norsk Hydro, Petrobras, Prudential, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shearson Lehman/American Express, STMicroelectronics, Sun Oil, Suncor, Texas Instruments, UBS, Unilever, Wal-Mart, Westinghouse, Xerox, major real-estate developers, and over 100 utilities. Public-sector clients have included the OECD, UN, Resources for the Future, the Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German, and Italian governments, 13 US states, Congress, and the U.S. Energy and Defense Departments.[1] He served in 1980-81 on the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Research Advisory Board, and in 1999-2001 and 2006-08 on Defense Science Board task forces on military energy efficiency and strategy. His visiting academic chairs in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, and China most recently included a MAP/Ming visiting professorship in Stanford University's School of Engineering.[7] Since 1982, RMI has grown into a broad-based institution—an independent, nonpartisan, entrepreneurial, public-benefit "think-and-do tank" with more than 85 staff and an annual budget of some $13 million.[1] RMI has spun off five for-profit companies.[8] [edit] Ideas[edit] Soft energy paths Amory Lovins advocates "soft energy paths" involving efficient energy use, diverse and renewable energy sources, and special reliance on "soft energy technologies." Soft energy technologies are those based on solar, wind, biofuels, geothermal, etc.; matched in scale and quality to their task; and widely accessible across society. Residential solar energy technologies are prime examples of soft energy technologies and rapid deployment of simple, energy conserving, residential solar energy technologies is fundamental to a soft energy strategy.[9] Lovins has described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient energy use and centralized, non-renewable energy sources that provided fossil fuels and electricity, the latter made by burning fossil fuels (e.g., coal or petroleum) or harnessing a nuclear fission reaction, and incurring the losses, vulnerabilities, and high costs of the electric grid. One of Lovins' main concerns was the danger of committing to nuclear energy to meet a society's energy needs, due chiefly to what he considered its poor economics and high risk of fostering nuclear weapons proliferation.[3][10][11] Lovins argued that besides environmental benefits, global political stresses might be reduced by Western nations committing to the soft energy path. In general, soft path impacts are seen to be more "gentle, pleasant and manageable" than hard path impacts. These impacts range from the individual and household level to those affecting the very fabric of society at the national and international level.[9] [edit] Negawatt revolution A negawatt is a unit in watts of energy saved. It is basically the opposite of a watt. Amory Lovins has advocated a negawatt revolution, arguing that utility customers don’t want kilowatt-hours of electricity; they want energy services such as hot showers, cold beer, lit rooms, and spinning shafts, which can come more cheaply if electricity is used more efficiently.[12] According to Lovins, energy efficiency ultimately represents a trillion dollar- a-year global market and American companies have at their disposal the technical innovations to lead the way. Not only should they "upgrade their plants and office buildings, but they should encourage the formation of negawatt markets".[13] Lovins sees negawatt markets as a win-win solution to many environmental problems. Because it is "now generally cheaper to save fuel than to burn it, global warming, acid rain, and urban smog can be reduced not at a cost but at a profit".[13] Lovins explains that many companies are already enjoying the financial and other rewards that come from saving electricity.Yet progress in converting to electricity saving technologies has been slowed by the indifference or outright opposition of some utilities.[12] A second obstacle to efficiency is that many electricity-using devices are purchased by people who won’t be paying their running costs and thus have little incentive to consider efficiency. Moreover, many customers "don't know what the best efficiency buys are, where to get them, or how to shop for them".[12] [edit] HypercarAmory Lovins has developed the design concept of the Hypercar. This vehicle would have ultra-light construction with an aerodynamic body using advanced composite materials, low-drag design, and hybrid drive.[14] Designers of the Hypercar claim that it would achieve a three- to five-fold improvement in fuel economy, equal or better performance, safety, amenity, and affordability, compared with today's cars.[15] [edit] AwardsAmory Lovins has received ten honorary doctorates and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1984, of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988, and of the World Business Academy in 2001. He has received the World Technology Award, the Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel"), the Blue Planet and Volvo Prizes, the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment in 1998[16], and the National Design (Design Mind), Jean Meyer, and Lindbergh Awards. He is also the recipient of the Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, and the Shingo, Nissan, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. He has also received a MacArthur Fellowship and is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. In 2009, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.[1] [edit] BooksThis is a list of books which are authored or co-authored by Amory B. Lovins, or which include a foreword by him:
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