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Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute
About Amory Lovins
In 1976, Amory Lovins published 'Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?' in Foreign Affairs, a watershed moment that reframed energy policy not as a supply problem but a design problem. He didn’t just argue for efficiency; he demonstrated it physically, retrofitting his own Colorado home, the 'Rocky Mountain Institute', into a superinsulated, passive-solar structure that used 90% less heating energy than conventional homes of its era, all before the term 'net-zero' existed. His insight was relentlessly material: energy waste isn’t abstract, it’s heat leaking through poorly detailed walls, motors oversized by 300%, lighting systems ignoring spectral sensitivity. Lovins’ work catalyzed the first generation of utility-sponsored home energy audit programs in the 1980s, embedding building science into policy via empirical measurement, not ideology. He treats kilowatt-hours like verbs, things you *do*, not commodities you buy, and insists that the cleanest, cheapest, fastest 'energy source' is always the one you never need to generate.
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- “How did your 1976 Foreign Affairs article change utility investment decisions?”
- “What specific building physics flaws do most home energy auditors still miss?”
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