Amory Lovins
Amory B. Lovins founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in 1982. Jon Creyts is the CEO, who "helped found RMI’s China Program and set up RMI’s office in Beijing" according to his profile at the World Economic Forum.[1]
Rocky Mountain Institute's tagline: "Rocky Mountain Institute transforms the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all."
About
Amory Lovins "is known as the Einstein of energy efficiency. His earth-shaking ideas on energy security, efficiency, and renewables have changed the field for more than 40 years. His thoughts continue to change hearts and minds today. He is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of RMI and an adjunct professor at Stanford University."[2]
Influence
Excerpt from a profile at The Guardian:[3]
- "Nicknamed the 'Einstein of energy efficiency', Lovins, an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, has been one of the world’s leading advocates and innovators of energy conservation for 50 years. He wrote his first paper on climate change while at Oxford in 1968, and in 1976 he offered Jimmy Carter’s government a blueprint for how to triple energy efficiency and get off oil and coal within 40 years. In the years since there is barely a major industry or government that he and his Rocky Mountain Institute have not advised...
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- "Germany, Sweden, Denmark, he says, are leading the way for buildings, and Japan for industry. Lovins refers to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (Aceee), which says intelligent efficiency, smart buildings and smart manufacturing are all coming through. “For speed of improvement, though not absolute level since they started so low, China is the undisputed champion,” says Lovins."
Tribune article
Australian Tour
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230819151750/https://www.weforum.org/people/jon-creyts Jon Creyts (accessed August 19, 2023)
- ↑ https://rmi.org/inside-amorys-brain/ Inside Amory's Brain (accessed August 20, 2023)
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/26/amory-lovins-energy-efficiency-interview-cheapest-safest-cleanest-crisis Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins: ‘It’s the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest way to address the crisis’ (accessed August 21, 2023)