I have tickets to hear Amory Lovins speak at the Lied Center tonight. Lovins is one of those wonky, engineering types who graduated from Harvard. He is revered in certain circles but largely obscure to most of us. It’s a real shame because this is a guy who has advocated energy conservation since the Opec Oil Crisis of the mid-seventies. He called for a Soft Path approach to energy policy (insulation, green construction for buildings, higher gas mileage, energy efficiency…the most inexpensive megawatt of electricity or barrel of oil is the one you don’t consume… etc.)
In a world that is increasingly cynical its hard to throw around words like visionary or hero without feeling geeky. But this guy has the goods. Take any moment in history, any group of people I could spend ten minutes with, and Amory Lovins shows up in the top five of my list every single time.
Because I’m pumped up to attend this lecture tonight, I felt compelled to put his name out there. Ask somebody who Paris Hilton is, or Tito Jackson and most people could offer a passing reference as to why they’re noteworthy. Ask us to conjure a visionary who has dedicated his life to advocating energy conservation and the collective mind draws a blank. I thought I’d offer Amory Lovins as a person to fill in that blank.
To learn his particulars, search on youtube, or check him out here:
http://www.sqwalk.com/blog2006/000764.html
http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3265.html
http://rmi.org/sitepages/pid41.php
https://secure.bioneers.org/node/518
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