Rocky Mountain Institute : Library

For pre-2000 documents, see Security Archives.

E06-02, How Innovative Technologies, Business Strategies, and Policies Can Dramatically Enhance Energy Security and Prosperity (PDF-400k): This invited Senate Energy Committee testimony by RMI's CEO Amory Lovins tersely outlines how a least-cost national energy strategy can strengthen the United States and make the world safer—and how current national energy policy has unwittingly become a major threat to security (07 March 2006).

S05-06, Gas Pains (PDF-20 k): Over a few decades, while sustaining or improving performance, the Pentagon's land, sea, and air platforms could cost-effectively save two thirds of their fuel directly, plus more fuel to deliver platforms and fuel. Such fuel efficiency would save many lives, billions of dollars a year in fuel cost, and perhaps ten times that in logistics cost, while making war-fighting more capable-and ultimately less necessary. This letter to the editor, by Amory Lovins, appeared in the July/August issue of The Atlantic Monthly (www.theatlantic.com) (August 2005).

S03-12, Some Missing Elements of Sustainable Development (PDF-1.1 MB): Global development is best founded on advanced resource productivity to free up capital and other resources otherwise preempted by supply-side investments. Many innovations, especially from the South, offer potential to combine accelerated development, environmental protection, and global security. This talk for a Stanford group of experts linking development with information technology explores how. This presentation was given by Amory Lovins at the Digital Vision Fellows, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (31 October 2003).

S02-1, How To Get Real Security, Whole Earth (PDF-208k): Amory Lovins's lead article in the Fall 2002 Security issue of Whole Earth Review redefines what security is, where we get it, who's responsible for it, and how to get it in ways that work better and cost less than present arrangements, which cost $11,000 per second but can't keep us safe. Adapted from remarks at a workshop on "Capstone Concepts for Defense Transformation" at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, D.C. This article, by Amory Lovins, appeared in Whole Earth (www.wholeearth.com) (November 2002).

S02-08, Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security (PDF-52k): On September 11, 2001, the Revolution in Military Affairs shifted into fast forward. The asymmetric warfare we had worried about for decades became a reality. A poorly financed and technologically impoverished antagonist proved it could mount devastating attacks on the United States. Adapted from remarks at a workshop on "Capstone Concepts for Defense Transformation" at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, DC (July 2002).

S01-12, Battling Fuel Waste in the Military (PDF-600k): Despite a 36 percent drop in total DOD energy use during 1990–99, chiefly due to force reduction, around $5+ billion of the military budget buys energy. Most of DOD's five billion gallons of annual petroleum use fuels weapons platforms—land, sea, and air—that are manifestly inefficient. To add a little irony, much of the fuel used by the military is exhausted moving fuel around (10 October 2001).

S01-01, Why Nuclear Power's Failure in the Marketplace is Irreversible (PDF-624k): Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: Can We Have One Without the Other? This PowerPoint presentation was given by Amory Lovins to the Nuclear Control Institute (09 April 2001).

For pre-2000 documents, see Security Archives.