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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Amory Lovins and RMI, was gas prices
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:03:57 -0700


On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Jerry W. Shepperd wrote:

At the moment, however, as James, Gene, Don, and several others have
said, while multiple sources of alternative energy are necessary,
conservation is still the single best approach.

One of my heros is Amory Lovins, the funny looking energy genius who started Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked long to show that conservation is the least expensive form of energy. Recent article about him:

Lovins Proposes Environmental Win-Win Situations

Reader's Digest, May 2007

Best Energy Saver
Amory Lovins Proposes Environmental Win-Win Situations.

For three decades, physicist Amory Lovins has preached that America can wean itself from fossil fuels — and save money by doing so. Now businessmen and bureaucrats are beginning to listen. As founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit consultancy group, Lovins helped persuade Wal-Mart to switch to more fuel- efficient trucks, Texas Instruments to build a chip plant that uses 20% less energy, and the U.S. Army to give solar power a shot. "I don't do problems," this environmental visionary recently told The New Yorker. "I do solutions."

For complete article, see: www.rd.com/content/best-energy-saver

Lots more good stuff available here:

http://www.rmi.org/





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