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Amory Lovins

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Physicist Amory Lovins is Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus and was Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute, with which he continues to collaborate. He has designed numerous superefficient buildings, vehicles, and industrial plants and synthesized an "integrative design" method and practice that can make the energy efficiency resource severalfold larger, yet cheaper, often with increasing returns. Since 1973 he has also advised major firms and governments in >70 countries on advanced energy efficiency and strategy, emphasizing efficiency, renewables integration, and the links between energy, resources, environment, security, development, and economy. He is a Scholar at the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Lovins has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards, many other energy and environment recognitions, and Germany’s highest civilian honor. A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary US architect, Swedish engineering academician, and 2011–18 member of the US National Petroleum Council, he has taught at ten universities, most recently the US Naval Postgraduate School and Stanford, teaching only subjects he hasn’t formally studied, so as to cultivate beginner’s mind.

In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. His most recent books, mostly coauthored, include Natural Capitalism, Small Is Profitable, Winning the Oil Endgame, The Essential Amory Lovins, and Reinventing Fire. His avocations include fine-art landscape photography, music, writing, orangutans, great-ape language, linguistics, and Taoist thought.

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Reinventing Fire

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