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   jjwfmme Posted 5:27 am
   01 Dec 2006

   Cool stuff.Interesting guy. (Hey Jason Scorse, did you hear his comment about the religious environmentalists?)

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   sunflower Posted 5:43 am
   01 Dec 2006

   Love LovinsI'm still down-loading on dial-up, should take a couple hours.  Did you hear '...global weirding"?

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   Biodiversivist Posted 3:08 am
   02 Dec 2006

   I don't have the patienceto sit around watching two guys chat in slow motion. If this were in print I could blow through it in a few minutes, cut and paste quotes, add remarks. Watching people talk, for me, is like having a tooth pulled.
   
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   jscorse Posted 11:29 am
   02 Dec 2006

   jjwfmme....not yet, but I'll get to ask him in person on Thursday when he comes to speak at my school- anyone near Monterey, CA is invited- Amory Lovins at 7PM in the Irvine Auditorium on Pierce St. and Jefferson at the Monterey Institute of International Studies December 7th- please come!!! And email me at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
   
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   jhutson Posted 2:31 pm
   02 Dec 2006

   Here's the transcript of Amory Lovins interviewTo read the annotated transcript of Amory Lovins' interview on the Charlie Rose Show, click here.

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   caniscandida Posted 5:23 am
   03 Dec 2006

   "kind of dippy"I would love to have Charlie Rose's job.  (Bill Moyers's too.)  On the one hand I assume I would be much better at it than he, he can be so inarticulate -- as he comes across in the transcript of this interview.  On the other, though, I admit he must have some subtle talent that escapes notice.  He is so disarmingly friendly and hospitable and non-threatening that he usually succeeds in eliciting full, candid and interesting responses from his guests.  So, good for him.
   Sunflower, I also am stumped by "global weirding."  That is what is printed in the transcript, in quotation marks, so presumably that is what Amory Lovins actually said.  Or, that is what the transcriber thought he said.  And I am not sure the context makes the meaning clear.  Perhaps Jason will remember to ask him about it, when he sees him on Thursday.
   
   Chickens are our cousins!
   
   So are other sensitive animals!
   
   Enough is enough!
   
   No more factory farms!

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   Jones Posted 5:51 am
   03 Dec 2006

   "Global Weirding"= Global Warming = Climate Change = Climate Chaos = Climate Crisis = "increase in severe weather events" = "changing global patterns"
   "Global Warming" is so 1998. Get into the 21st century.

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   jscorse Posted 6:11 am
   03 Dec 2006

   Charlie Rose is to good journalism...as George Bush is to good leadership.
   
   J.S.
   
   
   
   htt://voicesofreason.info

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   caniscandida Posted 7:12 am
   03 Dec 2006

   Ha!Sure, Jones, if you say so.  It's just that I am still stuck back in the 13th century, so there is a ways to go ...
   Actually, I did indeed suspect that "global weirding" had to do with anomalous and extreme weather patterns, over against the simpler idea of temperatures everywhere in every circumstance rising.
   
   Chickens are our cousins!
   
   So are other sensitive animals!
   
   Enough is enough!
   
   No more factory farms!

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    caniscandida Posted 7:52 am
    03 Dec 2006

    Rose, like W?Well, Jason, I certainly would not expect Charlie Rose's interviewing style to please you, so your remark is not surprising.  As I suggested, it makes me impatient too, very often.
    But journalism contains many genres.  There are many ways to conduct an interview, and those various styles get different results, and all of those results can be useful.  Tim Rennert, Jim Lehrer, George Stephanopoulos, Wolf Blitzer, Mike Wallace, Geraldo Rivera, Oprah Winfrey, and everybody in the White House press corps, just to name some examples, all have unique and personal ways of asking questions and eliciting responses.  Is it fair to make oneself a Procrustes of journalism, and force them all to fit the same quantifiable standard of acceptability?
    Charlie Rose obviously is well-loved.  The PBS folks have been running him for many years now, no?, which must count for something.  While he was ill and hospitalized and off the show this past year, a great number of fans showed their support for him, and a number of guest hosts gladly stepped in.
    Rose should not be underestimated.  In this respect at least he is like George W. Bush: it is easy to underestimate his intelligence.  (Yes, I think that W. is in some ways clever and adroit.  That is not meant as a compliment, because however far his cleverness goes, it is not accompanied by intellectual curiosity, or by moral wisdom.)  In fact, for Rose to do his job well, as for any interviewer, he needs to prepare with a good deal of research, and a lot of reading.  And I believe he has done his job well for many years.
    
    Chickens are our cousins!
    
    So are other sensitive animals!
    
    Enough is enough!
    
    No more factory farms!

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    sunflower Posted 8:12 am
    03 Dec 2006

    "global weirding"Amory Lovins is a brilliant scientist/author.  His research into energy efficiency and renewable energy economics predates the 1973 oil embargo and the counter-culture embrace of the same.  Amory is apolitical, and he promotes business as usual to affect a huge change in industrial energy priorities.  His focus has been on the opportunity to influence the path not taken on the oil end game.  (Hunter Lovins was the environmentalist on the team).  The acceleration of AGW is a new wrinkle that my require a new Lovins thesis.   "Global weirding" may be as much about a paradigm shift in global energy politics as it is about climate weirdness.
    I would also like to hear his response concerning this global phenomenon and his use of his new term.

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    amazingdrx Posted 4:20 am
    29 Jun 2008

    Brilliant!I wonder if Obama will have people like this advising him?  Maybe Gore, Lester Brown, and Lovins coming to dinner at the whitehouse.
    I'd vote for that.  
    Compare and contrast to the Cheney secret energy meeting, that is still held as a state secret.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005 ...
    
    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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