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Amory Lovins

Showcasing all the Big ‘Green’ Apple Has to Offer

Some of the world's brightest minds in sustainability are in New York City during Earth Week to share innovative approaches to reduce our impact on the environment with a focus on energy, the built environment and resource conservation.

Celebrating Solutions: Thirty Years of RMI

Rocky Mountain Institute turns 30 this year—an important milestone for us. RMI has long been an essential voice and player in energy and resource efficiency. Today, green buildings, energy efficiency, and renewables are commonly recognized topics. In 1982? Not so much.

Jevons Paradox: The Debate That Just Won’t Die

Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza — not because of the benefits of stopping global warming but because saving fossil fuel is a lot cheaper than buying it.

Amory Lovins’s Farewell to Fossil Fuels

In his landmark Foreign Affairs piece in 1976, probably still that august journal’s most-reprinted article, Amory Lovins describes the two energy choices then facing the nation: The “hard path” and the “soft path.”

A 2.6X Economy with No Oil, Coal, or Nukes: Amory Lovins Explains at Xconomy Event on Feb. 16

What if you could “do” fire completely differently? Well, Reinventing Fire is the provocative title of a new book co-authored by energy visionary Amory Lovins, the cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (link to www.rmi.org). Originally published at http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/02/13/a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216-a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216/