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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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/