Amory Lovins
Nuclear Nonsense
Stewart Brand’s book, Whole Earth Discipline, features a chapter claiming that new nuclear power plants are essential and desirable, and that a global nuclear “renaissance” is booming. Amory Lovins reviews the book and finds fatal flaws in the chapter’s facts and logic. Lovins explains why each of Brand’s claims are…
Preface to the Chinese Edition of Winning the Oil Endgame
In the preface to the Chinese edition to Winning the Oil Endgame, Amory Lovins puts the book in context for the Chinese audience. Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending U.S. oil dependence. This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution that is led by business…
Profitable Solutions to the Business, Climate, and Nuclear Proliferation Problems
In this presentation given to the Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Amory Lovins explains how energy can be used in a way that saves money. He argues that this will solve the climate, oil, and proliferation problems, not at a cost but at a profit.
Getting Off Oil: Recent Leaps and Next Steps
This article is a 2008 update on the progress of RMI’s 2005 effort to implement Winning the Oil Endgame. In this article, Amory Lovins provides an update on recent progress in many of the sectors targeted in Winning the Oil Endgame. He also describes the steps required to implement the…
Applied Hope
Amory Lovins outlines RMI's fundamental concept of “Applied Hope.”