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Amory Lovins 1
Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins
Born November 13, 1947
Washington, DC
Occupationenvironmentalist,
consultant physicist[1]
[2]
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947)[3]
is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman
and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for
four decades. Harvard University-educated, he was named by Time magazine one of the World's 100 most influentialpeople in 2009.
Lovins worked professionally as an environmentalist in the 1970s and since then as an analyst of 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, briefed 19 heads of state, and published 29 books. These books include Reinventing Fire, Winning the Oil
Endgame, Small is Profitable, and Natural Capitalism.
Early history
Born in in Washington, DC, Lovins spent much of his youth in Silver Spring, Maryland and in Amherst,
Massachusetts. In 1964, Lovins entered Harvard College. After two years there, 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 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, as it was two years before the
1973 oil embargo, and energy was not yet considered an academic subject.[4]
Lovins resigned his 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.
[5]
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Work
Friends of the Earth
Each summer from about 1965 to 1981, Lovins guided mountaineering trips and photographed the White Mountains
of New Hampshire, contributing photographs to At Home in the Wild: New England's White Mountains. In 1971 he
wrote about the endangered Snowdonia National Park in the book, Eryri, the Mountains of Longing, commissionedby David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth.
[6]Lovins spent about a decade as British Representative for
Friends of the Earth.
During the early seventies, Lovins became interested in the area of resource policy, especially energy policy. The
1973 energy crisis helped create an audience for his writing and an essay originally penned as a U.N. paper grew into
his first book concerned with energy, World Energy Strategies (1973). His next book was Non-Nuclear Futures: The
Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975), co-authored with John H. Price. Lovins published a 10,000-word essay
"Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" in Foreign Affairs, in October 1976. Its contents were the subject of many
seminars at government departments, universities, energy agencies, and nuclear energy research centers, during
1975-1977.[7]
The article was expanded and published as Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace in 1977.
Rocky Mountain Institute
By 1978 Lovins had published six books, consulted widely, and was active in energy affairs in some 15 countries. In
1982, he and Hunter Lovins founded Rocky Mountain Institute, based in Snowmass, Colorado. Together with a
group of colleagues, the Lovinses fostered efficient resource use and sustainable development.[6]
Lovins has briefed 19 heads of state, provided expert testimony in eight countries, and published 29 books and
several hundred papers.[5]
His clients have included many Fortune 500 companies, major real-estate developers, and
utilities.[5]
Public-sector clients have included the OECD, UN, Resources for the Future, many national
governments, and 13 US states.[5]
Lovins 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 efficiencyand strategy. His visiting academic chairs most recently included a visiting professorship in Stanford University's
School of Engineering.[8]
Since 1982, RMI has grown into a broad-based "think-and-do tank" with more than 85 staff and an annual budget of
some $13 million.[5]
RMI has spun off five for-profit companies.[9]
Ideas
Soft energy paths
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Solar energy technologies, such as solar water
heaters, located on or near the buildings which
they supply with energy, are a prime example of a
soft energy technology.
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. which are matched in scale and
quality to their task. 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.[10]
Lovins has described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient
energy use and centralized, non-renewable energy sources such as
fossil fuels. 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.[6]
[11]
[12]
Lovins argued that besides environmental benefits, global political stresses might be reduced by Western nations
committing to the soft energy path. He believes soft path impacts are 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.[10]
Negawatt revolution
A "negawatt revolution" would involve the rapid
deployment of electricity-saving technologies,
such as compact fluorescent lamps.
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.[13]
According to Lovins, energy efficiency represents a profitable 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".[14]
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".
[14]
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.[13]
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.
Lovins also believes that many customers "don't know what the best efficiency buys are, where to get them, or how
to shop for them".[13]
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Hypercar
Amory 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.[15]
Designers of
the Hypercar claim that it would achieve a three- to fivefold improvement in fuel economy, equal or better
performance, safety, amenity, and affordability, compared with today's cars.[16]
Awards
Amory 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, the Blue Planet
Prize, Volvo Environment Prize, the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment in 1998,[17]
and the National
Design (Design Mind), Jean Meyer, and Lindbergh Awards.[3]
[5]
Lovins 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.
[3] [5]
Furthermore he is on the
Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation.[18]
In 2009, Time magazine named Lovins as one of the world's 100 most influential people.[5]
[19]
Personal life
In 1979 Amory Lovins 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.[20]
In 2007, he married Judy Hill Lovins, a fine-art
landscape photographer.
Books
This is a list of books which are authored or co-authored by Amory B. Lovins, or which include a foreword by
him:[3]
• Eryri, the Mountains of Longing San Francisco, Friends of the Earth, 1972. (with Philip Evans) ISBN
978-0841501294. 181 p.
• Openpit Mining London : Earth Island, 1973. ISBN 978-0856440205. 118 p.
• World Energy Strategies: Facts, Issues, and Options London : Friends of the Earth Ltd for Earth Resources
Research Ltd, 1975. 131 p. ISBN 978-0884106012.
• Nuclear power: Technical Bases for Ethical Concern (1975, 2nd edition). 39 p. ISBN 978-0950327365
• Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace San Francisco : Friends of the Earth International, 1977 231p.
ISBN 0-06-090653-7
• The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers (1979) ISBN 978-0913890226
• Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (with John H. Price) San Francisco, 1980. 223p.
ISBN 978-0060907778
• A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture & Technology (1980) ASIN: B000MWEXMC
• Energy/War, Breaking the Nuclear Link San Francisco : Friends of the Earth, 1981 161p. ISBN 978-0913890448
• Least-Cost Energy: Solving the C02 Problem Andover, Mass. : Brick House Pub. Co., 1982 184p. ISBN
978-0931790362
• Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (with L Hunter Lovins) Andover, Mass. : Brick House, 1982
re-released in 2001. 486p. ISBN 0-931790-28-X
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• The First Nuclear World War (with Patrick O'Heffernan; L Hunter Lovins) New York : Morrow, 1983. 444 p
ISBN 978-0091558307
• Energy Unbound: A Fable for America's Future (with L Hunter Lovins; Seth Zuckerman) San Francisco : Sierra
Club Books, 1986. 390 p ISBN 0-87156-820-9
• Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (1991) ISBN 978-0918249098
• Reinventing Electric Utilities: Competition, Citizen Action, and Clean Power (1996) ISBN 978-1559634557
• Factor Four: Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use: A Report to the Club of Rome (1997) ISBN
978-1853834073
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (2000) ISBN 1-85383-763-6
• Small is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (2003) ISBN
1-881071-07-3
• The Natural Advantage Of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation And Governance in the 21st Century
(2004) ISBN 1-84407-121-9
• Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security (2005) ISBN 1-84407-194-4 (Available
Online in PDF[21]
)
• Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Save the Earth (2007) ISBN 978-1578051380• The Essential Amory Lovins (2011) ISBN 9781849712262
• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011) ISBN 978-1603583718
Non-English
• Faktor vier. Doppelter Wohlstand - halbierter Verbrauch (1997) ISBN 978-3426772867
• Facteur 4 : deux fois plus de bien-être en consommant deux fois moins de ressources: Rapport au Club de Rome
(1997) ISBN 978-2904082672
• Öko-Kapitalismus: Die industrielle Revolution des 21. Jahrhunderts (2002) ISBN 978-1400039418
References
[1] Right Livelihood Award. Amory and Hunter Lovins (USA) (1983) (http://www.rightlivelihood. org/lovins. html)
[2] Amory B. Lovins. Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? (http://www.foreignaffairs. com/articles/26604/amory-b-lovins/
energy-strategy-the-road-not-taken) Foreign Affairs , October 1976.
[3] The International Who's Who 2011, 74th edition, Routledge, 2010, p. 1259.
[4] Amory Lovins (Sep-Oct 2011). "Wonder in the Bewilderness" (http://harvardmagazine. com/2011/09/wonder-in-the-bewilderness).
Harvard Magazine . .
[5] Lovins Bio (http://rmi. org/Content/Files/Acorpbio_16i10. pdf)
[6] Profile of the 2007 Blue Planet Prize Recipient (http://www. af-info. or. jp/eng/honor/hot/enr-lovins. html)
[7] Amory Lovins (1977). Soft Energy Paths, p. 220.
[8] Stanford Energy Lectures (http://www. rmi.org/stanford)
[9] Most recently www.esource.com, www.fiberforge.com, and www.brightautomotive.com
[10] Amory Lovins (1977). Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace ISBN 0-06-090653-7
[11] Amory Lovins. Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs, Foreign Affairs , Summer 1980.
[12] Nuclear Energy Publications (http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid257.php)
[13] Amory B. Lovins. The Negawatt Revolution (http://www. rmi.org/images/other/Energy/E90-20_NegawattRevolution. pdf) Across the
Board , Vol. XXVII No. 9, September 1990, pp. 21-22.
[14] Amory B. Lovins. The Negawatt Revolution (http://www. rmi.org/images/other/Energy/E90-20_NegawattRevolution. pdf) Across the
Board , Vol. XXVII No. 9, September 1990, p. 23.
[15] Hypercars, hydrogen, and the automotive transition (http://www.rmi. org/images/PDFs/Transportation/T04-01_HypercarH2AutoTrans.
pdf) International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vol. 35, Nos. 1/2, 2004.
[16] Diesendorf, Mark (2007). Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy, UNSW Press, pp. 191 – 192.
[17] The Heinz Awards, Amory Lovins profile (http://www. heinzawards.net/recipients/amory-lovins)
[18] "Holcim Foundation Advisory Board" (http://holcimfoundation.org/T226/Advisory_Board_. htm). . Retrieved 11. October 2010.
[19] Carl Pope. The 2009 TIME 100: Amory Lovins (http://www.time. com/time/specials/packages/article/
0,28804,1894410_1893209_1893457,00.html) TIME magazine, April 30, 2009.[20] Iconoclast Gets Consultant Fees To Tell Big Oil It's Fading Fast (http://sierraactivist. org/article. php?sid=41667)
[21] http://oilendgame. com/ReadTheBook. html
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External links
• The Rocky Mountain Institute's home page (http://www.rmi.org/)
• Lectures series on energy efficiency (http://sic. conversationsnetwork. org/series/si-energy. html), March 2007
• Amory Lovins' biography at Right Livelihood Award (http://www. rightlivelihood. org/lovins. html)
• The Volvo Environment Prize is awarded to Amory B. Lovins (http://www. earthtimes. org/articles/show/
news_press_release,213746.shtml)• The frugal cornucopian (http://www. economist.com/science/tq/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=11999219)
• Congressional testimony on nuclear power (http://current. com/items/88905787/
amory_lovins_congressional_testimony_on_nuclear_power. htm)
• America's Best Leaders: Amory Lovins, Energy Scientist (http://www.usnews. com/articles/news/
best-leaders/2008/11/19/americas-best-leaders-amory-lovins-energy-scientist. html)
• TED Talks: Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame (http://www. ted. com/talks/view/id/51) at TED in
2005
• Amory Lovins on Energy Efficiency (http://www. iiea.com/events/amory-lovins-on-energy-efficiency) at
IIEA, 8 May 2009
• Internet Archive (archive.org) video and audio (http://www. archive. org/search. php?query=Amory Lovins)
• Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks (http://www. npolicy.org/thebook.
php?bid=19)
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Article Sources and ContributorsAmory Lovins Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=463003487 Contributors: Al Silonov, Alan Liefting, Amory Lovins, Arthur Rubin, B ananaFarm, Beetstra, Bigdaddy1981,
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