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