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...
View ArticleRocky 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...
View ArticleRMI'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...
View ArticleAmory 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...
View ArticleQuote 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...
View ArticleSweden 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...
View ArticleCompetitive 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...
View ArticleWhole 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...
View ArticleThom 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...
View ArticleAmory 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
View ArticleNational 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...
View ArticleHow greater efficiency leads to greater waste, or how Jevons' Paradox clogs...
Another example of how we use smart technology to do such dumb things.
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