Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades. He was named by Time magazine one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Amory Lovins quotes about
efficient prosperous
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.
technology culture speed
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
otters crow pelicans
Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
technology saving energy
Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
faces economics efficiency
The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
technology thorough-knowledge people
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.