Sarah Minczeski, The Energy Conversation, writes: This recent article in The
Federal Times is a great prelude to next Tuesday's Energy Conversation with
Amory Lovins.
Cutting DoD’s fuel addiction: The new
plan
By Tim Kauffman
March 3,
2008
Imagine: Air Force
bombers and tankers up to 10 times more fuel efficient than the heavy aircraft
used today. Soldiers who generate energy from their own motion instead of
energy-sucking batteries to charge electronic field gear. Buildings and
facilities throughout the world operating entirely on renewable energy.
This is the bold vision laid out in a
new
report by the Defense Science Board that aims to wean the Pentagon
off its insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and unreliable electricity
sources...
continuedPlease
join the Energy Conversation for a special presentation.Endurance, Resilience &
the Defense Science Board Report
The much anticipated Defense Science Board (DSB) Energy Task Force Report
will be briefed by Task Force Member Amory Lovins at the March 11th Energy Conversation.
Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, is a
thought leader, mission steward and strategist. He will offer his thoughts on
the report through the lens of two new strategic vectors - endurance and
resilience.
March 11, 2008
Reception: 5:30-6:15PM
Program:
6:15-8:30
Admission is free. A vegetarian friendly dinner is
$10.
The Doubletree Hotel
300Army Navy Drive
Arlington, VA
22202
map
and directions
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metro: The Pentagon City Metro on the blue/yellow
line is 3 blocks from the hotel.
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Biography
Amory Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, has advised the energy and other industries for more than three decades as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. Published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, his work in 50+ countries has been recognized by the Alternative Nobel, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine honorary doctorates, honorary membership of the American Institute of Architects, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Jean Meyer, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards. A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don (receiving in consequence an Oxford MA by Special Resolution), he advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 19 heads of state.
He cofounded and is Chairman and Chief
Scientist of Rocky
Mountain Institute, an independent, market-oriented, entrepreneurial,
nonprofit, nonpartisan think-and-do tank that creates abundance by design. Much
of its pathfinding work on advanced resource productivity (typically with
expanding returns to investment) and innovative business strategies is
synthesized in Natural
Capitalism. This intellectual capital provides most of RMI's revenue through
private-sector consultancy that has served or been invited by more than 80
Fortune 500 firms, lately redesigning $30 billion worth of facilities
spanning 29 sectors. RMI spun off E
SOURCE in 1992 and Fiberforge, Inc., a composites engineering
firm that Mr. Lovins chairs, in 1999; its technology permits cost-effective
manufacturing of the ultralight-hybrid Hypercar vehicles he invented in 1991.
His 28th book, Small
Is Profitable, an Economist book of the year, was published in 2002, and his
Pentagon-cosponsored 29th book, Winning
the Oil Endgame, in 2004.
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2008:
MARCH 11
APRIL 28
MAY 19
JUNE 23
JULY
21
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OCTOBER 20
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