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Not Lovins nukes	Erik Hoffner	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
It's not news that Amory Lovins opposes the expansion of nuclear power (unlike Obama and McCain) -- it was gnawed over here at Grist quite a bit. But in case you'd like to hear, rather than read, his arguments against (which are largely economic), then Democracy Now! radio has it all for you here. There's a transcript, too, for you bibliophiles which simply insist on reading.
Topics: Amory Lovins, nuclear power (all these topics)

Nuclear deterrence, part two Lovins and Sheikh defend definition and record of micropower	Guest author	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh of the Rocky Mountain Institute. It is part two of a series; see part one here. ----- Part two of David Bradish's critical look at 'The Nuclear Illusion' (PDF) raises two additional issues to which we respond here. As in his first critique, it appears that, unable to rebut and hence unwilling to address our paper's data and logic, Mr. Bradish must content himself with trying to manufacture an illus ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Nuclear questions for Lovins What should I ask the efficiency guru about nuclear power?	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amory Lovins. Photo: © Judy Hill Amory Lovins is on the warpath against nuclear power, battling the industry PR push that says nuclear is a viable climate solution. He's got a new report, co-authored with Imran Sheikh, called 'The Nuclear Illusion' [PDF]. Spinning off from that report are a Newsweek article called 'Missing the Market Meltdown' and an article on the RMI site called 'Forget Nuclear.' I was on a conference call with Lovins earlier today in whic ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy, interview, nuclear power (all these topics)

TED talks	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I keep seeing TED talks referenced here and there. I really need to start checking that site more often. Here are a couple of cool presentations. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame (sure to enrage all you car-haters out there): Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism, or at least that's what the talk is called -- I watched it, and actually he makes an incredibly powerful case for pessimism, followed by a much weaker case for optimism: Here David Keith t ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, climate (all these topics)

All You Need Is Lovins A conversation with energy guru Amory Lovins	David Roberts	26 Jul 2007	Main Dish
If politicians think in sound bites and intellectuals think in sentences, Amory Lovins thinks in white papers. His speech is studded with pregnant pauses -- you can almost hear the whirs and clicks as an enormous mass of statistics, analyses, and aphorisms is trimmed and edited into a manageable length. I've talked to experts who struggle to substantiate their answers. Lovins struggles to leave thing ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, biofuels, cars, coal, Congress, energy, energy efficiency, ethanol, fuel efficiency, Iraq, renewable energy (all these topics)

Lovins	David Roberts	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Hey, did y'all notice that my interview with Amory Lovins is up? Go read it, if it so pleaseth you to do so.
Topics: Amory Lovins (all these topics)

What should I ask Amory Lovins? Send me your questions before tomorrow	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Tomorrow, I'm interviewing Amory Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. I suppose Lovins needs no introduction here, but if you want a compact summary of his contributions, Wikipedia's got a decent entry. If you'd like to read some of his stuff, check out Winning the Oil Endgame, which promises a roadmap for getting the U.S. "completely, attractively, and profitably off oil" by 2025. This year, he won the highly pre ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

Nuclear debate Lovins v. Richter	David Roberts	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Energy guru Amory Lovins and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Burton Richter face off, mano a mano, debating the merits of nuclear energy for addressing the climate crisis. MongaBay offers a blow-by-blow account. No one will be shocked to hear that I would call the bout for Lovins, though it was far from a TKO.
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Tighten Up Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Apr 2007	Muckraker
What's not to love about energy efficiency? It's the paradigmatic win-win scenario -- save money, protect the climate and broader environment, and reduce reliance on unsavory sources of energy, all in one fell swoop. As efficiency guru Amory Lovins puts it [PDF], "Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza -- not because of the benefits of stopping global warm ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Material intensity Indirect greenhouse-gas savings	Gar Lipow	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) Previously I pointed out that efficiency, doing more with less, is a key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (A lot of people on Gristmill are fans of conservation, doing less with less. I have nothing against this, so long as it is a voluntary choice, but I won't be spending a lot of time on it.) Normally, when people think of efficiency they think of direct savings -- insulating homes, electric cars, and so on. That is: ma ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Is nuclear power green? CSM investigates	David Roberts	07 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Mark Clayton at the Christian Science Monitor looks into it. This describes my position quite well: But for those energy experts who have done life-cycle analysis of nuclear power, the big concern is that policymakers may be misled into believing that just because nuclear CO2 emissions are low, the cost of nuclear as an option to address climate change would be a bargain. Better, they say, to take the huge amounts of money needed for nuclear plants and use it ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Profitable opportunities to save energy: Why do we keep missing them? It's all about inequality	Gar Lipow	30 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Blogging about the new Elizabeth Kolbert article in the New Yorker, David writes: But then, there's the nagging thought. Lovins can always talk and explain and persuade better than we can -- he's a friggin' genius -- but the intuitive question keeps returning: if there were so many errors, and so much benefit to be gained by correcting them, and it's all so easy ... why isn't it happening? Something doesn't fit. Roberts quotes Kolbert expressing similar thoug ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

Elizabeth Kolbert profiles Amory Lovins And does it well	David Roberts	22 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The New Yorker has a great profile of Amory Lovins written by journalist, book author, and interviewee Elizabeth Kolbert. (It's not online -- check last week's issue.) It's a fantastic piece, really capturing Lovins' entrepreneurial drive not just to do research and develop strategies but to evangelize for his perspective. He's tireless trying to get his stuff into the right hands. I suspect most everybody in the green world has mixed feelings about Lovins, and the ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

Taking the long way home: What's wrong with the hydrogen path Warning: techno-engineering speak ahead	Gar Lipow	24 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Amory Lovins is rightfully admired by environmentalists. But nobody is right all the time, and the hydrogen path is one of his few mistakes. He summarizes his argument for hydrogen in Twenty Hydrogen Myths (PDF). More extensive discussion is embedded in his book Winning the Oil Endgame (book-length PDF). His basic proposal: Since most gas stations already have access to natural gas, put natural gas reformers in enough stations to make sure everyone has access to ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, cars, energy, hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics)

Sometimes, big is beautiful Let's not fetishize size	Gar Lipow	22 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Many environmentalists are reverse size queens -- 'small is beautiful.' When Schumacher wrote the book of that title, he was responding to a real tendency to ignore diseconomies of scale -- a tendency that still exists. Up to a certain point, both organizations and physical plants produce more output for each unit of input as they grown in size. Past that point, costs of gigantism kick in, and efficiency begins to fall instead of rising. But Schumacher assumed that ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, hydrogen (all these topics)

Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose Damn he's smart	David Roberts	01 Dec 2006	Gristmill
The Rocky Mountain Institute's Amory Lovins appeared on PBS's Charlie Rose Show on Tuesday. He was, as usual, brilliant and absurdly quotable. The guy's a human pull-quote generator. Charlie Rose is kind of dippy though. Here's the full video:
Topics: Amory Lovins, TV (all these topics)

He's making a list And I'm checking it. Twice.	Kate Sheppard	28 Nov 2006	Gristmill
People like to number things. They like to make lists. But I'm always impressed by the seeming randomness with which organizations decide to publish decisive lists. Why choose Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 to publish your top 100 green campaigners of all time? Why not?! Not quite at the end of the year and a little late for the turn of the millennium, the U.K. Environment Agency released their 'Earthshakers' list today, just in time for ... well, I'm sure it's in time for s ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Hansen, Lester Brown, lists (all these topics)

A new natural capitalism	Maywa Montenegro	17 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I'm going to sit the fence on Kit's poll by saying that reigning in climate change will require both a re-envisioning of capitalism and a revision of our core values. An excellent professor of mine at MIT introduced our class to the concept of 'natural capitalism,' pioneered by Paul Hawkins and Amory and L. Hunter Lovins. Their 1999 book on the subject, probably familiar to many of you, was an eye-opener for me at the time. Here is a short synopsis of the book from ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Bill McKibben, business, oil, politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Lovin' Lovins	Ana Unruh Cohen	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Energy Independence today. Amory Lovins was one of the four witnesses, and his testimony (pdf alert) is worth a read -- even the footnotes.
Topics: Amory Lovins, Congress, energy, politics (all these topics)

The mother of all link posts Everything you ever wanted to know about ... everything	David Roberts	22 Feb 2006	Gristmill
So much material. So little time. So many complicated issues. So little expertise. How about a big fat linky post! Treehugger has a fantastic interview with Hunter Lovins, long-time champion of sustainability, now president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc. She talks about her current international work, focusing on Afghanistan. I particularly like this exchange, which is relevant to our discussion of poverty earlier: Do you believe that economic developm ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, consumerism, eco-terrorism, hybrids, international politics, politics (all these topics)

A more holistic energy discussion Energy use matters as much as -- or more than -- energy supply	David Roberts	24 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Of the many ideas Amory Lovins has pushed into our cultural dialogue, here's one of the most important, one that everyone involved in energy debates should take to heart: It is not energy that people want; it is the services energy provides. The obsessive focus of energy debates on supply -- nuclear or wind? clean coal or hydrogen? -- is so narrow as to distort. The way we use energy is just as important: How do we store it? Transmit it? Where do we liv ...
Topics: Amory Lovins (all these topics)

Cleanup on Aisle Six Wal-Mart unveils specific, ambitious environmental goals		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Cleanup on Aisle Six Wal-Mart unveils specific, ambitious environmental goals After weeks of scattered signs and announcements, today Wal-Mart issued a far-reaching set of concrete environmental goals. CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. announced that the company would invest $500 million in technologies to reduce its stores' greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent in seven yea ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, commercial and industry organizations, environmental planning, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Oh Mighty Crisis, Crisis, Crisis Candidates and country in denial about looming energy crisis		26 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Oh Mighty Crisis, Crisis, Crisis Candidates and country in denial about looming energy crisis The San Francisco Chronicle is running a three-part series on the looming energy crisis and the peculiar refusal of the presidential candidates -- and the country -- to deal with it realistically. Global oil demand is rising, prices are rising, and production is relatively static. Despite the campaign rhetoric, neither ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, elections, energy, politics (all these topics)

States of Grace States take the lead on renewable energy		22 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
States of Grace States take the lead on renewable energy With the climate for renewable energy rather inhospitable at the federal level, states are taking the initiative. For example, a proposal before the New York Public Service Commission would require utilities to get 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2013; if it passes, New York will become the 17th state with renewable portfolio standa ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, New York, renewable energy (all these topics)

Lovins Spoonful Hunter Lovins Dishes Out Cowgirl Wisdom and Lots More		06 Aug 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Amory Lovins, business, energy efficiency, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

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