The Essential Amory Lovins: Selected writings

by Burns; Cameron

• ISBN13: 9781849712262
• ISBN10: 1849712263
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Amory B. Lovins is one of the world#x19;s leading authorities on energy, integrative design, and their links with economy, environment, development, and security. This unique collection brings together his most important and influential writings and forms an inspiring resource for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the issues which lie at the heart of sustainability and energy challenges. Featuring work spanning energy, design, transport, climate, security, law, mountaineering, politics, proliferation, health, business, biotechnology, physics, and politics, this book explores the relevance of the ideas to the sustainability problems we face today.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Editor's Introduction	p. xi
Into the Wildness, Mountain Climbing, North Wales, and Poetry
New England Wanderer	p. 3
Longing	p. 6
To a Poet Met in Cwm Dyli	p. 13
Resources and Energy: Efficiency, Policy, Potential
Only One Earth	p. 17
Long-Term Constraints on Human Activity	p. 20
Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?	p. 41
Cost-Risk-Benefit Assessments in Energy Policy	p. 72
Energy End-Use Efficiency	p. 108
Nuclear Power: Fission and Confusion
Clean Energy or a Choice of Poisons?	p. 143
Why Nuclear Safety Is Unattainable	p. 145
Out of the Frying Pan, into the PWR	p. 147
Nuclear Follies	p. 150
Mighty Mice	p. 152
Nuclear Socialism	p. 164
Vehicles and Oil: Goodbye Crude World
Energy: The Avoidable Oil Crisis	p. 171
Reinventing the Wheels	p. 178
Drilling in All the Wrong Places	p. 192
Our Human Environment: Building Better, Building Smarter
Air Conditioning Comfort: Behavioral and Cultural Issues	p. 197
The Superefficient Passive Building Frontier	p. 241
Foreword to Sustainable Design Guide of the Japan Institute of Architects	p. 245
Energy Security and the Military: Blood and Treasure (and Opportunities)
The Fragility of Domestic Energy	p. 255
Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security	p. 269
Towering Design Flaws	p. 281
How Innovative Technologies, Business Strategies, and Policies Can Help the US Achieve Energy Security and Prosperity	p. 284
DOD's Energy Challenge as Strategic Opportunity	p. 291
On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern	p. 308
Business and Climate: Making Sense, Making Cash, Making Good
A Roadmap for Natural Capitalism	p. 317
Marketplace Energy Savings: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities	p. 335
Miscellany: A Poem, a Letter, and an Opinion
Vaguely we walk	p. 357
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution a Red Herring	p. 359
A Tale of Two Botanies	p. 361
Final Thoughts: Finding the Path
Imagine a World ...	p. 366
Remarks on Acceptance of the Blue Planet Prize	p. 369
Applied Hope	p. 371
Index	p. 373
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