Amory B. Lovins

Physicist and Energy Analyst Class of 1993
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Snowmass, Colorado
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46 at time of award

About Amory's Work

Amory Lovins is an expert on energy efficiency.

Lovins co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit, resource policy center, with his wife, Hunter, in 1982.  The Institute fosters the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security.  Its staff works on issues such as energy, water, agriculture, transportation, sustainable forest and corporate practices, and the interconnections among them.  Lovins has worked to advance “soft energy” strategies that focus on nonpolluting and economically competitive options, chiefly advanced energy efficiency.  He consults in the private and public sectors on practical ways to adapt end-use efficiency as the cheapest, quickest, cleanest, and most secure energy choice.

Biography

Lovins is a consultant physicist and chief executive officer at the Rocky Mountain Institute.  He served on the U.S. Department of Energy’s senior advisory board (1980-81) and on a defense science board (1999-2001), and has been a lecturer and visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Dartmouth College, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Colorado.  He is the co-author, mainly in collaboration with his wife, Hunter Lovins, of twenty-nine books and several hundred papers.

Lovins studied at Harvard University for two years, became a don at Oxford University (1968), where he received an M.A. (1971).

Last updated January 1, 2005

Published on July 1, 1993

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