Amory Lovins, is our person to watch of the week. For more than three decades Mr. Lovins has been working tirelessly to impact the way the world consumes energy. Mr. Lovins has published 29 books, hundreds of papers and has consulted U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, briefed 19 heads of state, in 50+ countries. His work has earned him recognition from the “Alternative Nobel,” Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine honorary doctorates, honorary membership of the American Institute of Architects, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Jean Meyer, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards.
Mr. Lovins cofounded and is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), an independent, market-oriented, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, nonpartisan think-and-do tank that creates abundance by design. Much of its pathfinding work on advanced resource productivity (typically with expanding returns to investment) and innovative business strategies is synthesized in Natural Capitalism (www.natcap.org). This intellectual capital provides most of RMI’s revenue through private-sector consultancy that has served or been invited by more than 80 Fortune 500 firms, lately redesigning $30 billion worth of facilities spanning 29 sectors. RMI spun off E SOURCE ( www.esource.com) in 1992 and Fiberforge, Inc. (www.fiberforge.com), a composites engineering firm that Mr. Lovins chairs, in 1999; its technology permits cost-effective manufacturing of the ultralight-hybrid Hypercar® vehicles he invented in 1991. Mr. Lovins was also on the jury team for the first annual World Clean Energy Awards held in June this year in Basel, Switzerland. Look to see more of Mr. Lovins in the future.
His 28th book, Small Is Profitable www.smallisprofitable.org, an Economist book of the year, was published in 2002.
His most recent book was released in 2004 www.oilendgame.com
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