Amory Lovins
Sustainable Design Guide of the Japanese Institute of Architects (Foreword)
In this chapter, Amory Lovins lays out some of RMI’s core principles such as biomimicry and whole-systems design and applies them to Eastern and Western design practices. He describes traditional Eastern design principles and compares them to typical Western technological design. Lovins suggests that the best from Eastern tradition be…
Moving Toward a New System
In this interview with the Society of Automotive Engineers, Amory Lovins responds to questions about the role of the government and business in setting transportation and energy policy, ultralight vehicles, and changes in the transportation industry. He also details the Clean Car Initiative of 1994 and discusses the design and…
Comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In 1995, Amory Lovins wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission commenting on the proposed rulemaking on open access transmission. His primary concern in the proposed rule was the treatment of demand-side options (end-use efficiency and load management) and the potential for new dispersed generators…
Apples, Oranges, and Horned Toads
This article, published in The Electricity Journal, is Amory Lovins’ response to Paul Joskow & Donald Marron’s criticism of utility demand-side management programs. Joskow and Marron are critical of RMI’s stated costs of potential electric end-use efficiency. In the article, Lovins explains the differences in RMI’s technical-potential analyses and Joskow…
Energy Efficient Buildings: Institutional Barriers and Opportunities
In this 1992 paper, Amory Lovins explains that buildings are rarely built to use energy efficiently, despite the sizeable costs that inefficient designs impose on building owners, occupants, and the utility companies that serve them. The reasons for this massive market failure have to do with the institutional framework within…