Tag: Amory Lovins

  • National Design Awards Honor Amory Lovins

    The National Design Awards, sponsored by the Smithsonian and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, are out and a big green winner is Amory Lovins, who got the Design Mind Award, which "recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design

  • Amory Lovins Named One of America's Best Leaders by US News & World Report

    In case you’re not a regular US News & World Report reader, we’d like to point out that Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Thom Yorke, Amory Lovins and Ken Livingstone on Climate Change

    Image credit: National Geographic/Getty Images "We will soon discover whether this bold evolutionary experiment of combining a large forebrain with opposable thumbs was really a good idea. Over the next decade, our species takes its university finals.

  • Whole System Approaches to Sustainable Design

    "By the time the design for most human artifacts is completed but before they have actually been built, about 80-90 percent of their life-cycle economic and ecological costs have already been made inevitable." This is a quote from Amory Lovins,

  • Competitive Enterprise Institute Digs Deeper Hole, Says CAFE Will Cost Lives

    We've covered the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI) hole-digging statements before, from their "CO2: We Call it Life" ads, to their "complaining about Al Gore flying everywhere to promote An Inconvenient Truth,", to an op-ed piece blaming Rachel

  • Sweden swapping efficiency for security?

    Touching down in Stockholm today to pick up his 2007 Volvo Environmental Prize, energy guru Amory Lovins had some harsh words for the Swedes. Sweden, a paradise of innovation around effective energy use and smart building in the 1970's, has lost its top

  • Quote of the Day: Amory Lovins on a Green Pentagon

    Photo credit: Judy Hill/Rocky Mountain Institute In Washington, D.C., a surprisingly strong voice in 2007 for getting off oil will be the world's biggest buyer both of oil and of renewable energy—the Pentagon. This is not just because oiligarchs

  • Amory Lovins, Prophet of Radical Energy Efficiency

    Amory Lovins, physicist, author, inventor, consultant, and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, as well as one of our nation's greatest minds, received Popular Mechanics' 2007 Breakthrough Leadership Award on Tuesday for devising inspiring yet

  • RMI's RetroFUTUREspective: 25 Years of Being Years Ahead

    It would be somewhat of an understatement to say that TreeHugger is a big fan of the Rocky Mountain Institute and its Chief Scientist Amory Lovins. When they announced their 25th anniversary celebrations earlier this year, Collin took the time to

  • Rocky Mountain Institute's 25th Anniversary: Celebrating Solutions

    The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the groundbreaking, seminal green "think and do tank" marked their 25th anniversary of thoughtful, passionate work to improve the state of the world this past weekend (oops! The event is August 9-10 -- stay tuned for

  • Amory Lovins Stepping Down as Rocky Mountain Institute CEO

    According to the Aspen Times, Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins is changing role at the institute, going from CEO to Chairman and Chief Scientist. You can read RMI's official press release here (pdf). "Lovins [will] remain RMI's CEO until

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