Electricity
Home Energy Briefs: #2 Lighting
This Home Energy Brief gives an overview of steps to take in making your home lighting more energy efficient while maintaining and improving lighting quality. Improving the efficiency of your home lighting can not only reduce your electric bills, it can also improve the atmosphere, comfort, and safety of the…
Some Missing Elements of Sustainable Development
In this lecture given at Stanford University, Amory Lovins presents his theories on sustainable development. He argues that the efficient use of energy is a fundamental driver of sustainable development because it is part of the proper allocation of financial capital on the scale of the macroeconomy. Lovins provides several…
Mobilizing Energy Solutions
In this article in The American Prospect, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins argue that the “energy problem” is not that we are running out of it. By defining the problem as one of lack of supply and the answer as forcing more traditional supply, policy has undercut the real solution…
Eight-Fold Way Towards Faster Energy Efficiency
In the keynote presentation to the ECEEE Biennial Meeting in 2001, Amory Lovins presented his idea of eight ways to accelerate energy efficiency. The presentation shows multiple policy approaches and argues that these trans-ideological approaches work better and faster than traditional pricing and regulating structures. He shows alternatives to conventional…
Clean Renewables and Efficiency, not Coal, are the Key
This commentary in the Aspen Daily News was written in response to an op-ed by then Colorado State Rep. Carl Miller (D). In a previous edition of the newspaper, Rep. Miller wrote an opinion titled: “Electricity from Coal is Essential, Affordable and Increasingly Clean.” Sen. Miller’s piece reflected on the…