Podcasts about Amory Lovins

Patrick Molloy, Principal at RMI's Climate-Aligned Industries program and co-host of Everything About Hydrogen, joins the Hydrogen Innovators Podcast to explore ammonia's rapidly expanding role in the clean energy transition—as a shipping fuel, hydrogen carrier, and critical input for fertilizers. This episode also marks the debut of our new co-hosts, Stanford PhD students Milenia Rojas Mendoza and Emma Kerr, who bring fresh insight and sharp questions to the conversation. Together, they discuss the impact of recent policy developments like the IMO carbon levy, the balance between centralized and decentralized production, and the global lessons emerging from hydrogen and ammonia deployment efforts. Patrick shares his personal path into the hydrogen space and reflects on the visionary leadership of Amory Lovins, offering a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion on where this market is headed next.

Aslında birçok insan uyanık olduğu saatlerin çoğunu ofiste geçiriyor. Bu nedenle, besleyici ve sağlık odaklı bir çalışma alanı yaratmak önemseniyor. İnsanlar ve topluluklar için olumlu değişimleri teşvik etmeye adanmış bir tasarım firması olan Mithun kendi ofisini çalışan refahını gözeterek iddialı bir şekilde yenilemiş. Living Building Challange sertifikası ilkelerine uymuş.  Ekip, yeniden tasarlanan ortamın personelinin fiziksel ve duygusal sağlığını iyileştireceğinden emin olmaya odaklanmış. Rocky Mountain Enstitüsü, kaynakların verimli ve onarıcı kullanımı hakkında araştırma, analiz ve eğitim sağlayan bağımsız bir kar amacı gütmeyen kuruluş. Yeni İnovasyon Merkezini, 1982'de kurulduğu Colorado Snowmass dağlarından, Basalt'taki daha erişilebilir ve toplum temelli bir yere taşımışlar. İnovasyon Merkezi, araştırmacıları çekmeyi ve toplumla iletişimi artırmayı hedefliyor. Rocky Mountain Enstitüsü Baş Bilim İnsanı ve kurucu ortağı Amory Lovins hedeflerini şöyle özetlenmiş: "Bu binaya girildiğinde keyif, işgal edildiğinde sağlık ve üretkenlik, terk edildiğinde ise pişmanlık yaratacak.

Hello, I'm Michael Liebreich, and this is Cleaning Up.I hope you are having a good break over the holiday season, and getting to spend some quality time with your family. I'm in Switzerland, where it has just snowed about a meter in 24 hours.In case you're missing your regular dose of climate content, we're starting something new, which we're calling Cleaning Up Redux. During the break between seasons, we'll be republishing some gems from our back catalogue, which now covers nearly 200 episodes.To kick us off, today we'll be listening back to episode 68, from Season 4, released in December 2021. It's a conversation with Amory Lovins, whom I dubbed the Einstein of Energy Efficiency. Amory is the co-founder and former chairman and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He is also the author of more than 30 books and 700 papers, and now an Adjunct Lecturer in Atmosphere and Energy at Stanford University.I first became familiar with Amory's work even before I founded New Energy Finance journey, as a fierce promoter of the cause of energy efficiency by design, and equally fierce opponent of the idea of any role for nuclear power. Amory and I do not see eye to eye on everything, but we have become good friends and occasional sparring partners.Amory joined me on Cleaning from his passive house high up in the Rocky Mountains, which is so warm despite not having any active heating that, at the time of recording, he had produced 78 crops of indoor bananas – a fact of which he is rightly proud.The reason I chose this episode to kick off Cleaning Up Redux is that, in these very turbulent and politicised times, it has a refreshing back-to-basics feel. If you can save energy you save money, and that is always a good thing. If we all focused more on making clean energy cheaper for consumers and businesses, and a bit less on persuading politicians to do things that drive up energy costs, the transition might be moving a lot faster.I hope you enjoy my December 2021 conversation with Amory Lovins.Further reading: IEA Energy Efficiency 2021 report: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-efficiency-2021 Official bio: https://rmi.org/people/amory-lovins/ How Big Is the Energy Efficiency Resource?  (a half-hour summary talk is at https://energy.stanford.edu/events/special-energy-seminar-amory-lovins-holmes-hummel) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad965 Recalibrating Climate Prospects https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab Can a Virus and Viral Ideas Speed the World's Journey Beyond Fossil Fuels? (with Kingsmill Bond) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc3f2 SAE: Reframing Automotive Fuel Efficiency https://doi.org/10.4271/13-01-01-0004

Our guest in this episode is Amory Lovins, a distinguished environmental scientist, and co-founder of RMI, which he co-founded in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute. It's what he calls a think do and scale tank, with 700 people in 62 countries, and a budget of well over $100m a year.For over five decades, Amory has championed innovative approaches to energy systems, advocating for a world where energy services are delivered with least cost and least impact. He has advised all manner of governments, companies, and NGOs, and published 31 books and over 900 papers. It's an over-used word, but in this case it is justified: Amory is a true thought leader in the global energy transition.Selected follow-ups:Inside Amory's Brain - RMIGet to know us - RMIBooks by Amory B. Lovins - GoodreadsReinventing Fire - RMIIntegrative Design: A Practice to Tackle Complex Challenges - Stanford d.schoolWhat is Integrative Design? - RMIMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

Erik Distler is responsible for overseeing AEG Sustainability, the organization's corporate sustainability program. In this capacity, he focuses on global strategies and tactics that address operational impacts and capture and measure data across key environmental metrics, such as greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and waste reduction. He also supports AEG's global business units in the implementation and execution of sustainability initiatives, manages external partnerships related to sustainability, facilitates the sharing of best practices, and ensures that sustainability is a source of value across the company. Distler has worked at the intersection of environmental and social responsibility in sports and entertainment for more than ten years. Before joining AEG, he built and led the sports-focused sustainability strategy and program at Nike. Prior to Nike, he was with the Green Sports Alliance where he oversaw relationships with corporate partners, live entertainment events, professional sports leagues and clubs, sports governing bodies, and collegiate schools and conferences, as well as working extensively with ESPN. He also spent time as a sustainability consultant with PwC. Distler began his career in accounting and finance, where he worked for Deloitte and The Siegfried Group LLP for the first seven years of his career. He received his Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Iowa State University, graduating with Honors and High Distinction.. Erik Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: How AEG manages sustainability at large events like music festivals Piloting initiatives at smaller events to apply learnings and replicate at larger events Incorporating reusable materials at events in partnership with Our World Advice and recommendations for sustainability professionals Erik's Final Five Questions Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I would say have as many conversations as you can. Sustainability departments are often departments and functions that are in service to the business. We tend to operate as internal consultants. So how can we be everywhere at the same time? How can we ensure that every part of the business has the opportunity to build sustainability into their work? How do we consult to provide subject matter expertise to the business? The work we do within the department is measurement and data and setting sustainability targets and all that kind of exists within our function. But it all starts with having conversations. I wouldn't be afraid to sit down with someone and ask them more questions than provide statements on how they feel, how they perceive sustainability, where they feel as though it's working, where it's not working, what can we do more of that really helped build out our sustainability strategy. Do a little bit of a needs assessment on what stakeholders and partners value. The only other thing I'd say too secondary is, don't be afraid to start somewhere. I think we often feel as though the challenges we're up against are audacious and global and all encompassing, and they are. It can sometimes feel like we're out at sea against a massive challenge on our own  when we think of climate issues. That can freeze one up. It can stifle movement. You can feel like, "well, what can I do? I can't possibly make a difference." It's amazing what just taking one small step can lead to. There's been this kind of backlash against incrementalism in the space, like we need big changes, not incremental changes, but I don't know that I agree with that. I think an incremental quick change that you can grow on and iterate from can turn into something very big. So don't be afraid to start somewhere. Start with something that you can measure, for sure. But have those conversations and turn those small steps into big steps. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? There's a lot to be excited about. When realizing the gravity of the issue that we're facing, I think it's important to find sources of encouragement and hopefulness. There's really no other way. There's a line by Walt Kelly from his pogo comic strip many years ago that says, “we are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.” I use that and refer to that a lot. Try to figure out what is the opportunity in front of us and be optimistic about it. I think there's an excitement around the external forces. They're becoming louder and more influential, and that's encouraging. Our fans, our partners, our sponsors, our artists and entertainers. There's more of a voice and more influence that is being laid upon us and expected from us. I think collaboration is increasing cross-sector research companies that are competitive coming together in a pre-competitive way. Higher education institutions are pulling us in to do research that will help us in our business. We're seeing a lot of that. There's also a healthy kind of push, pull and engagement among our partners and sponsors. There's that untapped space with partnerships and sponsorships where it's determining inventory and the assets and how sustainability can be valued and monetized, but the conversations that we're having with partners or potential partners around shared goals, targets, aspirations, and what we can do together to help achieve our individual sustainability goals, kind of matches up. There's a lot of energy and excitement around that. What is one book you would recommend sustainability leaders read? One is Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. It's a book that'll retrain your brain to consider the interconnectedness of literally everything around you. And then Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins. It's that seminal book on environmental economics. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work? I read Green Bizz, 3BL and Triple Pundit. We get a lot of resources from our longtime partner, Schneider Electric. We've worked with them for many years and they have webinars and lots of sessions and thought leadership that we use a lot. I also keep up on the guidance from the GHG protocol, the EPA, the UN. In our space in particular, there are two organizations that are co- holding up the movement, Green Sports Alliance on the sports side and a more newly formed music sustainability alliance on the music side. We look to these two entities to hold and convene us, and there's a lot of good research and thinking coming out of those orgs as well. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work being done at AEG? Our website, aegworldwide.com. There's an About Us dropdown at the top, and we have a somewhat newly revamped sustainability page and more changes coming. We're building out a microsite off that page when we have our next generation sustainability goals finalized. We'll have all that good stuff up there. We also have case studies or what we call sustainability stories up on that page. Also under About Us, you can read about our social impact and DEI functions as well. We have a Twitter account, we recently rebranded it from AEG One Earth to the handle, @AEGSustain or the account name, AEG sustainability. We're trying to get information up there. And of course, LinkedIn is a great place to reach out to myself or anyone from our sustainability team.

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Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Another fortnight, another flurry of activity vis-a-vis the reliability of the NEM! Your intrepid hosts have some whiplash from the just-published May 2024 Update to the 2023 Electricity Statement of Opportunities, rendered out of date some 48 hours later when the NSW Government and Origin Energy announced their deal to extend the operation of Eraring for two years. Reliability fears? Temporarily allayed. Broader impacts? More coal gen pain! Our main paperThe Australian Government's universally beloved, well received, totally uncontroversial Future Gas Strategy proved too tempting to resist for your intrepid hosts. In what could have been titled ‘Gassy McGasface Says: Gas? Gas!' this report goes to great lengths to paint a picture of gas as far as the eye can see – beyond 2050! – even in the face of the many models suggesting that would be a Very Bad Idea, especially if the need to save the climate is a thing. It might be light on analysis, policy, and funding, but don't worry, we filled in the blanks. One more thingsTennant's One More Thing is some listener mailbag from Summerupperer Kerry Burke, who reckons the LMSU crew got it wrong – it had to happen eventually – with our broad endorsement of Grattan's Keeping the Lights On paper last episode. We'll take a 47/48 strike rate any day, and invite Kerry – who is also not happy with the status quo – to tell us what he'd do instead! Frankie's One More Thing is a plug for the National Construction Code 2025 Public Comment Draft, now open for comment until 1 July! Improvements to energy efficiency for commercial buildings are on the table, including an intriguing measure to mandate solar on commercial building rooftops. If buildings are your jam, hop on it!Luke's One More Thing is a plug for the Energy Efficiency Council's revamped and relaunched First Fuel podcast, featuring no less than the grandfather of energy efficiency, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and Stanford Professor, Amory Lovins. Canvassing extreme efficiency, grid transition and dare we say it, the prospects for nuclear in Australia, we are McLovins it!And that's all from us Summerupperers! Support our Patreon at patreon.com/LetMeSumUp, send your hot tips and suggestions for papers to us at mailbag@letmesumup.net and check out our back catalogue at letmesumup.net.

First Fuel returns with a very special episode this month, featuring none other than Amory Lovins, co-founder of RMI and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. At the end of an incredible week that included Australia's first Industrial Decarbonisation Summit and the 2024 EEC National Conference, Amory joined our host and EEC CEO Luke Menzel to reflect on where Australia finds itself at this point in our energy transition. Luke and Amory also discussed Amory's history with Australia, his thoughts on the potential for energy management in the near and long-term future, nuclear power and much more. As you'd expect from the man dubbed 'the Einstein of Energy Efficiency' this is a wide-ranging, solutions-focussed 30 minutes of conversation that is overflowing with ideas.

Amory Lovins (pictured) is in Australia for an energy conference and was a guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's RN Breakfast and talked with host, Fran Kelly - "Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins on Future Made in Australia"; "Dick Smith says no country has ever been able to run entirely on renewables. Is that correct?"; "Labor's Future Gas Strategy: The greatest capitulation of any Australian government to the fossil fuel industry"; "WA's greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb above 2005 levels despite net zero pledge"; "Tuvalu is being swallowed by the ocean. Its people face a difficult choice"; "Australia and Tuvalu finalize historic treaty to welcome climate refugees"; "Inside the Labor gas rebellion splitting the party"; "Climate Science Initiative, presented at Murdoch University"; "Q&A: The Dire Consequences of Global Warming in the Earth's Oceans"; "94% of psychologists are concerned about the impact of climate change on mental health"; "China makes some of the hottest new EVs. Most aren't sold in the U.S."; "Europe hit by severe floods in the north and heatwaves in the south"; "Future Gas Strategy"; "World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target"; "State of Sustainability Report 2023"; "Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint"; "Eco-anxiety affecting more than two-thirds of Australians aged 16-25 years, study finds"; "Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta: a Native Elder Fights Fossil Fuel Companies in Texas"; "Contemplating an EV? Here's the buzz on the pros and cons"; "Biloxi, Mississippi, is losing a foot of salt marsh shoreline a year": "Climate change made the deadly heatwaves that hit millions of highly vulnerable people across Asia more frequent and extreme"; "Global projections of heat exposure of older adults"; "Australia's offer of climate asylum to Tuvalu sparks controversy"; "Global experts and leaders convene for Vatican climate summit"; "Ministers consider making UK's carbon targets easier to meet"; "'Catastrophic floods' kill more than 300 in Afghanistan, wash away entire villages"; "Chart: Global clean energy manufacturing, by the numbers"; "BP Grabs The Opportunity to Take Over Tesla's Supercharging Sites": "Data Centers Power Demand Fuel U.S. Utility Q1 Earnings Discussions"; "Climate change is affecting mental health literally everywhere"; "Clean Energy Is Driving ‘a New Era in American Manufacturing' Across the Midwest"; "Carbon Offset Deals and the Risks of ‘Green Grabbing'"; "Electric Drive: How China's BYD Is Racing Ahead in the EV Market"; "A water war is brewing between the U.S. and Mexico. Here's why."; "Days after climate talks, US slaps tariffs on Chinese EVs and solar panels"; "Paris summit unlocks cash for clean cooking in Africa, side-stepping concerns over gas"; "'Civil Disobedience Has to Become the New Norm.' Jane Fonda on the Fight Against Climate Change"; "It's a Climate Election Now"; "Azerbaijan pursues clean energy to export more ‘god-given' gas to Europe"; "In Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's net zero vision clashes with legacy of war"; "In Florida, Skyrocketing Insurance Rates Test Resolve of Homeowners in Risky Areas"; "Climate Change Puts U.S. Economy and Lives at Risk, and Costs Are Rising, Federal Agencies Warn"; "Coal's Dying Light: The decline of coal is hurting Kentucky and communities across the country"; "New Rules Help to Answer Whether Clean Energy Jobs Will Also Be Good Jobs"; "America's Green Skills Gap Raises Concerns About Energy Transition"; "Can Biden's new jobs program to fight climate change attract women and people of color?"; "The Civilian Conservation Corps"; "Flash floods in Afghanistan devastate lives and livelihoods"; "Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say"; "What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Amory Lovins has been writing and talking about energy policy, renewable energy, sustainability and energy efficiency for over 50 years. His views have been crucial to our understanding of energy efficiency. Lovins has advised major firms and numerous governments, authored hundreds of papers and books, and taught at several universities most recently Stanford. Time magazine named him one of the world's most influential people. Lovins joins his colleague, Dean Walter, Principal of Strategy at RMI (the Rocky Mountain Institute), to discuss the enormous and still untapped potential of energy efficiency in the transition to a net zero future. For more information about electrification and energy efficiency https://switchedon.reneweconomy.com.au

Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—If there's one thing your intrepid hosts love it's an acronym! PM Anthony Albanese served up fresh fodder for the LMSU crew in the form of A Future Made In Australia or as it shall henceforth be known, FuMiA! At this stage all we have are the tasty tantalising morsels of pre-budget delights in the billion dollar investments announced for the Solar Sunshot program and critical minerals investments with much MUCH more coming our way. Will the Government go big or go home in backing home-grown advantages and sovereign capability?  Our main paperThis week we picked a winner and tackled the ARENA-funded study by the Australian PV Institute, Silicon to Solar, which informed the so-far $1Bn the government is tipping in to the Solar Sunshot program aimed at creating an end-to-end solar PV industry in Australia. A dispassionate, objective look at whether we should establish a domestic solar industry THIS IS NOT! Your intrepid hosts tallied the arguments for ‘making PV in Australia is sensible' vs ‘making PV in Australia is crazy' and tackled the totally-not-fraught topic of what-do-we-do-about-China. Which one stacks up? Definitely not our current costs of production at any stage of the supply chain! One more thingsTennant's One More Thing is “Everything Must Go”, a history of stories about the end of the world (featuring an excellent climate section) by Dorian Lynskey, host of the Origin Story podcast. Tennant's real motivation for the shout out is that it situates Soylent Green as a climate movie. Cue *not listening* emojis. For a taster, listen to the Origin Story podcast's bonus episode on the book!Frankie's One More Thing is the ISSB's recent announcement that they are commencing projects to look at disclosure about risks and opportunities associated with nature and human capital. Signalling expansion to human rights and TNFD is super fast compared to climate risk which was a slower burn - exciting times!Luke's One More Thing is the EEC's Industrial Decarbonisation Summit and National Conference, featuring global energy efficiency legend Amory Lovins. Not to mention a gala dinner co-hosted by podcast superstars Frankie Muskovic and Tennant Reed!And that's all from us Summerupperers! Support our Patreon at patreon.com/LetMeSumUp, send your hot tips and suggestions for papers to us at mailbag@letmesumup.net and check out our back catalogue at letmesumup.net.

Amory Lovins, co-founder and chairman emeritus of RMI, talks about why he thinks we have only scratched the surface of how much efficiency is available and worth buying. He also talks about the importance of integrative design and the role of both speed and drivers in improving efficiency. And he shares how he thinks NACFE has helped the trucking industry and how he views various alternatives to diesel.

I poddens 107:e avsnitt dyker vi tillsammans med Anna Larsson, strategikonsult på företaget Hifab Advisory, ner i energieffektiviseringsarbetet inom bostads- och fastighetssektorn som står för runt 40% av svensk energianvändning.  Mellan 2009 och 2019 gick energianvändningen för att värma och förse varje kvadratmeter lokalfastighet ner med 10% enligt statistik från Energimyndigheten. Lyssnar man på Anna är detta bara början på fastighetsägarnas jakt på effektiviseringar, inte minst tack vare “en dold teknisk revolution” inom byggnadsteknik och allt mer ambitiösa lagstiftningspaket från EU.  Anna berättar om hur EU:s taxonomi för hållbara investeringar och den nya versionen av Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (förkortas EPBD) avser att öka fokus och på vissa sätt även ändra logiken i hur energieffektviseringsarbete sker i fastighetssektorn.  Vad mer? Anna ger exempel på riktigt lågt hängande frukter, hon svarar på frågan varför det inte sätts solceller på alla nybyggda hus i soligt läge och spanar kring hur mycket kommersiella fastigheter lyckats energieffektivisera fram till 2030. Om du gillade avsnittet med Anna kan vi även rekommendera följande avsnitt: Joachim Lindborg, Om flexibla värmepumpar och timprisstyrning av el Amory Lovins, Om den outnyttjade potentialen i energieffektivisering Vill du föreslå en gäst till ett framtida avsnitt? Har du förslag på hur vi kan göra podden bättre? Fyll jättegärna i vårt feedback-formulär.

Unlock the secrets of the energy market evolution with economist Professor Lynn Kiesling, who brings her expertise on transaction costs and the digital transformation of the electricity industry to our table. Our energized discussion orbits around the innovative world of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), where we explore the shift from consumers to proactive producers, thanks to technologies like rooftop solar panels and home energy storage. Professor Kiesling, drawing from her academic journey and reverence for Ronald Coase's work, delves into the institutional structure of production within firms and imparts her wisdom on navigating the complex regulatory frameworks that shape our smart grid technologies.Also, 4 new TWEJ's, and a letter. It's the January TAITC!This month's guest:  Lynne Kiesling:  https://lynnekiesling.com/Our paper:  Theisen, Kiesling, and Munger, "Airbnb to solar: electricity market platforms as local sharing economies."   Public Choice: 2022  Lynne's Substack: "Are We Talking Ourselves Out of Progress?"Lynne's Substack:  "Pareto-relevant Externalities (You don't have to internalize everything, folks!)Links:Buchanan and Stubblebine, "Externality." Economica.  Russ Roberts and the parable of the wind and the sun:   https://www.econtalk.org/david-mcraney-on-how-minds-change/Amory Lovins (cold beer, hot shower, "Nega-Watts"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_LovinsOhtani's contract, from REASON:  https://reason.com/2023/12/15/baseball-star-shohei-ohtanis-new-contract-is-a-massive-tax-avoidance-scheme-nice/If you have questions or comments, or want to suggest a future topic, email the show at taitc.email@gmail.com ! You can follow Mike Munger on Twitter at @mungowitz

Energy has been with us for a long time and, over the past 100 years, fossil fuels have been cheap and plentiful.  Now we are going to have to pay the piper if we want to limit the future impacts of climate change.  How could that happen.  Tune in to hear Amory Lovins, cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and long time energy policy analyst and advisor to many utilities, regulators and businesses.  Almost 50 years ago, Lovins published a groundbreaking article in the journal, Foreign Affairs, entitled “Energy Strategy: The Road not Taken,” which recommended a renewable-based strategy over one based on oil, coal and nuclear power.  Surely, but slowly, that vision is being realized, albeit in a much more complicated and conflicted fashion.  Amory will talk about efficient energy use, integrative design, renewable supply (including grid integration), and long-term energy needs and paths to getting to an electrified future.

MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE 2D HOUR, WHICH GOES FOR TWO HOURS.   THE FIRST HOUR IS JUST A SINGLE HOUR, & WE WON'T USE IT ON TODAY'S PRN.LIVE BROADCAST.  THANKS!! > > A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al. > > > Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy. > > We start with LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace, who updates us on the multi-front fight to shut California's Diablo Canyon Nukes. > > The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale's Small Modular Reactor scam.  > > NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012. > > That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed. > > NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam. > > But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed. > > Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy. > > Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says. > > Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says. > > In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds. > > With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals. > > New grid materials brighten the equation. > > Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production. > > Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables. > > “Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental. > > Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes. > > JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion. > > We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power. > > Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars. > > At the end we learn it's Amory's birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering. > > Don't miss it!!!  & we'll see you in Solartopia…..

Welcome to another episode of "Redefining Energy Tech," hosted by Michael Barnard. Today, we have the pleasure of having Dr. Joseph Romm, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. Dr. Romm, with a rich background in physics and public policy, has significantly contributed to our understanding of climate solutions, especially in areas like direct air capture and offsets.Dr. Romm shared about his journey, recounting his time working closely with Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, and his role as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy. Post his tenure at the Department, he dedicated himself to climate communication, contributing to the Climate Progress blog until its unfortunate closure. Following this, he took up his current position at the Center under the leadership of Michael Mann, where he is actively involved in research and is in the process of writing three papers focusing on bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS), direct air capture (DAC), and carbon offsets as potential climate solutions.The discussion started with the concept of carbon offsets, their limitations, and their role in the broader climate change mitigation strategy. Dr. Romm highlighted the concerning trend of organizations opting to pay for projects in places like Brazil or investing in tree planting and deforestation prevention as a means to offset their own emissions. He emphasized the distinction between voluntary market offsets and regulated offsets, pointing out the lack of oversight in the voluntary market which has led to a decrease in price and quality, and the more robust, yet expensive and complex nature of regulated offsets under agreements like the Paris Accord.The conversation touched upon the 2015 Paris Agreement, its goals, and the challenges in achieving them, specifically addressing the complexities of trading and offsets. They discussed the developments since the agreement, including the introduction of authorized offsets in November 2021, and the concept of corresponding adjustments to prevent double counting of emission reductions. The example of Brazil was highlighted, demonstrating how countries could sell offset credits while maintaining their official emission levels through corresponding adjustments. However, this practice raises concerns about the future, especially for poorer countries that might find themselves at a disadvantage, potentially being pushed out of these markets.The first half of the discussion concluded with the importance of genuine emission reductions, the challenges associated with offsets and corresponding adjustments, and the need for careful consideration to ensure that the mechanisms in place truly contribute to global emission reduction efforts without exploiting poorer nations.Read Dr. Romm's paper on offsets, bioenergy and carbon capture and direct air capture to prepare for COP28. They are available from the University of Pennsylvania.LInk to Joe Romm publications: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/publications/

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Did you ever think being more comfortable could be saving the planet? Well, it's possible. Andy Frank (@AndyJFrank) is Founder & President of Sealed, a climate tech company that finances home weatherization, insulation, and heat pumps using the dollars homeowners SAVE, by using their service. We dive deep into…Who the hell is Amory Lovins (one of the most fascinating humans alive), how does Sealed make a super old, 125-year-old home more efficient, and what's Sealed's GAF (greedy AF) vs LAF (lazy AF) philosophy? Sealed is re-writing the playbook on climate change. They're helping you help the planet, all from never leaving your house. Check out https://climatemayhem.com/andy-part-2 for show notes.   Connect with Ty Wolfe-Jones and Jakub Kubicka With Ty Wolfe-Jones on LinkedIn With Ty Wolfe-Jones on Twitter With Jakub Kubicka on LinkedIn With Jakub Kubicka on Twitter Subscribe to Climate Mayhem On any podcast platform Read all show notes at climatemayhem.com Ask a question or suggest a topic on our What-The-Climate Listener Mail Form

Did you ever think being more comfortable could be saving the planet? Well, it's possible. Andy Frank (@AndyJFrank) is Founder & President of Sealed, a climate tech company that finances home weatherization, insulation, and heat pumps using the dollars homeowners SAVE, by using their service. We dive deep into…Who the hell is Amory Lovins (one of the most fascinating humans alive), how does Sealed make a super old, 125-year-old home more efficient, and what's Sealed's GAF (greedy AF) vs LAF (lazy AF) philosophy? Sealed is re-writing the playbook on climate change. They're helping you help the planet, all from never leaving your house. Check out https://climatemayhem.com/andy for show notes.   Connect with Ty Wolfe-Jones and Jakub Kubicka With Ty Wolfe-Jones on LinkedIn With Ty Wolfe-Jones on Twitter With Jakub Kubicka on LinkedIn With Jakub Kubicka on Twitter Subscribe to Climate Mayhem On any podcast platform Read all show notes at climatemayhem.com Ask a question or suggest a topic on our What-The-Climate Listener Mail Form

Expanding access to clean energy like solar is essential to global climate goals, and it is especially impactful for the residents on island nations in the Caribbean that face high energy costs and are exposed to increasingly violent storms. As the director of projects for the Rocky Mountain Institute (now known as RMI), Chris Burgess navigates the decarbonization and decentralization of energy in markets that have previously been left out of the energy transition. Hilary Langer and Chris Burgess (Director of Projects for RMI) discuss why decentralized power is especially important to quality of life in underserved communities, how to establish alignment among disparate stakeholders, and how urgent action can be scaled. Links: RMI on 60 MinutesRMI (Rocky Mountain Institute)RMI's “Solar Under Storm” ReportChristopher Burgess on LinkedInAmory Lovins, Soft Energy PathsMia Mottley UN Profile: Champions of the Earth Episode recorded: March 23, 2023Email your feedback to Chad, Gil, and Hilary at climatepositive@hasi.comor tweet them to @ClimatePosiPod.

Josh Brooks is a partner with WayBright, LLC, with office in Jacksonville, FL, Asheville, NC, and Torreon, Mexico. WayBright is a project development, finance, and management platform designed to accelerate the deployment of clean energy, clean water, and other infrastructure services across the U.S. and Mexico. Prior to WayBright, Josh served as aide to Amory Lovins, founder and former Chief Scientist of RMI, a world-leading energy and economy think tank. There, Josh focused on implementing integrative design across the energy-intensive sectors: transportation, industry, buildings, and electricity generation as well as utility business model innovation and energy regulatory reform which resulted in numerous successful legislative initiatives. Prior to RMI, Josh served as Project Developer for NTE Energy, a private sector energy production company, where he directed the company's renewables development and related wholesale customer programs in multiple national markets. His work with NTE and other regional utilities produced some of North Carolina's first community solar installations and one of the nation's most diverse public generation portfolios at Appalachian State University, Josh's alma mater. Today, along with his work at WayBright, Josh services as an advisor to the Council for New Energy Economics, which participates in electric-utility resource planning processes across the country and sits on the Board of Blue Link Pro, LLC, the first full-service partner for water and sewer utility infrastructure management, monitoring, renovation, and upgrade, including financing as beneficial to the utility. https://waybright.co/ https://nexuspmg.com/

This week your intrepid hosts recapped some BIG news out of Victoria with the announcement of new emissions reduction targets - 75% to 80% (on 2005 levels) by 2035, net zero by 2045 and a renewable electricity target of 95% by 2035. Wowser! The first government in Australia to formalise a 2035 target which has significant implications for the decarbonisation of fossil gas during that timeframe deserves a special shout out! Your resident Victorian co-hosts lamented the overhyped media focus on the revival of state-owned power company SEC with a measly $1Bn in funding - even if they do have a fab retro logo.A big shout out to friend of the pod Allison Reeve for the recommendation for this week's paper. As we're leaning into our (initially) accidental and now somewhat intentional pile-on regarding IAMs, we've decided to drive another nail into the coffin of these woefully inadequate-but-still-wildy-influential models and talk technology learning rates. Specifically, a look at 'Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition' from Rupert Way, Matthew C. Ives, Penny Mealy and J. Doyne Farmer from Oxford University. This paper has caused quite a stir in IAM-land. Were your intrepid hosts shaken, stirred, dirty or taken with a twist? Only one way to find out.Frankie's One More Thing is some encouraging progress on the circular economy from a recent meeting of Environment Ministers in which Commonwealth and state and territory governments committed to a product stewardship scheme for solar panels and household electronics, regulation of packaging and further work on phasing out single use plastics.Tennant's One More Thing is a computer game called The Case of the Golden Idol in which the intrepid player explores crime scenes frozen in fantasy 18th Century England to solve a bunch of grizzly murders. What's it got to do with climate and energy? Absolutely nothing! Loads of fun for our analytically minded listenership? You betcha.Luke's One More Thing is a 2019 paper he stumbled on and got distracted by, ‘Recalibrating climate prospects' which includes Amory Lovins, a grandfather of the energy efficiency movement, as a lead author and sets out the case for stronger focus on demand management and energy efficiency paired with renewables in IAMs. Yep, it's those pesky IAMs undervaluing energy efficiency again. That's all folks, see you next time! Please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at mailbag@letmesumup.net.

In this episode of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Rick Heede, Director of the Climate Accountability Institute. Rick discusses his early roots in Norway, his move to the United States, and his studies in energy and climate change that brought him to Colorado. He describes his early works studying carbon concentrations at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and later joining the Rocky Mountain Institute as one of the first staff members. He and Ted reminisce on the early days and the creativity of founder, Amory Lovins.Rick goes on to share his experiences in quantifying carbon emissions, conducting greenhouse gas inventories, and calculating Scope 3 aviation emissions. He then dives into his work at the Carbon Accountability Institute, describing "The Carbon Majors" study, which details countries and companies that have the largest carbon footprint on a global scale. Rick demonstrates his passion for detailed quantification, ensuring that all aspects of the energy chain are accounted for, and that accountability is taken by those companies that knowingly contributed to the dire consequences of climate change.   

Mark Nelson and I had so much to talk about, we had two hour+ calls on our energy crisis and nuclear power. This is the first one.Mark is a former generation fellow at the Breakthrough Institute and was a senior analyst at Environmental Progress. He holds degrees in mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering. He is the founder and CEO of the Radiant Energy Group.Part 1 covers Mark's origin story, the interesting and unique psychology of nuclear power, the historical link between nuclear weapons and energy, disentangling the physical accident at Chernobyl from the memes, Amory Lovins, nuclear regulations and incentives (good & bad), what the nuclear industry has gotten wrong, the nature of the professional opposition, nuclear medicine, what to do with nuclear waste, are plants built decades ago immortal, have we lost the capability to built large projects in the West and how could we regain it, de-industrialization vs re-industrialization, energy storage, and much more. And there's just as much in part 2, including potential solutions to the crisis, small modular reactors (SMRs), advanced reactor designs, fusion, Canada's CANDUs, the energy crisis worldwide and in Europe and which countries are most screwed, coal and gas, etc.

In 2017, the V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant expansion - meant to hail the renaissance of nuclear power in the US - came screeching to a halt. The project, to build two new reactors at an existing South Carolina facility, was canceled after being delayed more than a year, costing $9 billion USD, and still being only 40% complete. Now, the only new nuclear project in the works in the U.S. is the Vogtle Plant expansion in Georgia; a project also more than a year behind schedule, and billions of dollars over budget. Still, nuclear projects remain a focus of government and think tank decarbonization strategies. Why?Dr. Amory Lovins, adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, and international authority on the clean energy transition, joins Climate Now to explain why he thinks nuclear should no longer be considered as a source of energy. For Amory, it's not just the chance of environmental catastrophe or nuclear proliferation that make it a non-starter, it's the economics.00:00 - Introducing Climate Now00:32 - Introducing Amory Lovins01:12 - How much energy is supplied from nuclear power02:02 - Amory explains why he believes that nuclear has no business case16:25 - If nuclear has no business case, why do governments continue to invest in it?

I poddens 75:e avsnitt - och det allra första på engelska - har vi nöjet att gästas av Amory Lovins, grundare av Rocky Mountain Institute, och en av de stora internationella förgrundsgestalterna för idéerna bakom energiomställningen.  Vi tar avstamp i artikeln Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken som Amory skrev 1976 i en tid som på många sätt liknar idag; det var tre år efter oljekrisen, el- och bränslepriser var skyhöga, och länder över hela världen hade energitrygghet högst upp på agendan. I artikeln presenterar Amory ett alternativ till dåtidens fossilbaserade strategier som gick ut på att “få tag på mer energi till varje pris”; en framtid baserad på ambitiös energieffektivisering och en uppsjö av småskaliga, modulära, energilösningar nära konsumenterna. I avsnittet benar Amory ut vad han då menade med soft energy paths och går igenom på vilket sätt hans åsikter har ändrats sen dess. Vi djupdyker även i Amorys idéer om energieffektivisering. Vi får dels konkreta exempel på något som Amory kallar integrative design, en metod för att i större grad involvera design och systemtänk i energieffektiviseringsprojekt, och dels makroperspektivet på hur väl samhället överlag lyckas med energieffektivisering. (Rapporten Energy Efficiency 2021 från IEA, som citeras vid minut 29, finns här.)  2016 fick Amory Lovins ett hederspris av den tyska regeringen för att bidragit till att skapa en teoretisk grund för Energiewende, den tyska omställningen till förnybar energi och ökad energieffektivisering. Förutom att ge sin syn Energiewende får vi höra om hur Amory resonerar kring utmaningen att säkra tillgången av el under förhållandevis långa perioder av lite sol och vind.  Avslutningsvis får vi höra om Amorys hem på 2200 meters höjd nära Aspen, Colorado — ett passivhus helt utan uppvärmningssystem där han odlar bananer och en rad andra tropiska frukter.

Vad händer när väst ska göra sig fritt från rysk olja och gas? I Europa fruktar man energibrist, men leder Putins krig till en tillbakagång till fossila bränslen, eller kommer det skynda på den gröna omställningen? Veckans konflikt börjar i det starkt gasberoende Tyskland. För att slippa importera gas från Ryssland satsas det nu stort på terminaler för flytande naturgas, LNG. Problemet är att det har en  har en större klimatpåverkan jämfört med gasen som kommer i pipelines från Ryssland. Reporter Marcus Hansson åker till Wilhelmshaven där en av terminalerna håller på att byggas och träffar Imke Zwoch, från miljöorganisationen BUND.En del av gasen som Europa nu hoppas ska ersätta den ryska tror man ska komma från Afrika. Men afrikanska miljöorganisationer är kritiska och anklagar väst för dubbelmoral. Man vill att afrikanska länder inte ska bygga sin ekonomi på fossila bränslen, men när kriget kom till Europa ville vi själva satsa fossilt. Programledare Robin Olin pratar med Landry Ninteretse från miljöorganisationen 350 orgFörst pandemin och nu kriget har gjort att klimatfrågan hamnat i skuggan anser man inom  klimatrörelsen i Sverige. Men kanske kan kriget ge klimataktivisterna nya argument. Putin har tydliggjort kopplingen mellan fossila bränslen och krig säger Kristian Smedjeback, från Extinction Rebellion som David Rasmusson träffar i Pildammsparken i MalmöOch på andra sidan Öresund, i vindkraftslandet Danmark hoppas man att kriget ska sätta fart på den gröna omställningen. David Rasmusson träffa Kristian Jensen, Vd för branchorganisationen Green Power Danmark. som menar att Putin blivit ett försäljningsargument för grön energiKlimatkonferensen Stockholm +50 hölls häromveckan och SR:s klimatkorrespondent Marie-Louise Kristola var där för att prata med forskare. Det finns de som oroar sig för att Europa nu investerar kraftigt i ny fossil infrastruktur, men det finns också dem som Amory Lovins som menar att Putin genom sitt krig sprängt sönder fossilåldern och att han omedvetet snabbat på en grön omställning.Robin Olin träffar Åsa Persson, forskningschef och vice vd på Stockholm Environment Institute som tror att klimatfrågan kommer att fortsätta vara högprioriterad, trots kriget och andra kriser. Men den stora frågan nu är hur mycket dom satsningar som nu görs på fossil infrastruktur kommer att bromsa upp klimatomställningen.Medverkande: Imke Zwoch, miljöorganisationen BUND, Landry Ninteretse miljöorganisationen 350.org, Kristian Smedjeback, klimataktivist Extinction Rebellion, Ebba Reinicke, klimataktivist Extinction Rebellion, Kristian Jensen, vd Green Power Danmark, Åsa Persson, forskningschef och vice vd Stockholm Environment Institute.Programledare: Robin Olin robin.olin@sr.seReportrar: Marcus Hansson, Marie-Louise Kristola Tekniker: Joachim PerssonProducent: David Rasmusson david.rasmusson@sr.se

Are we underestimating the potential of increased efficiency? It wouldn't be the first time.In 2021, the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasted a 50% increase in global energy demand by 2050. Such forecasts have echoes of the 1970's, when – in the middle of a global energy crisis – forecasters were anticipating as much as a 300% increase in energy demand over the next 3 decades. Those forecasters missed the mark by about 250%, because they didn't count on the significant efficiency improvements in home appliances, vehicle fuel economy, industry and home energy demands that kickstarted in the 1980's.In this episode, featuring Dr. Amory Lovins of RMI and Dr. Roger Aines of Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), we explore whether energy forecasters are missing the mark again: projecting only incremental efficiency gains in the next 30 years, despite the fact that we already have the technologies and smart design approaches that would allow global energy demand to decrease by more than 70%, while still providing the same services of today.Joined by a group of LLNL scientists, Amory, Roger and host James Lawler discuss the potential of smart and integrative design approaches that can provide savings in both energy emissions and costs, as well as the obstacles that are keeping us from taking full advantage of these approaches. Listen wherever you like to get your podcasts, or listen with the transcript at climatenow.com!00:12 - Introduction00:40 - The Energy Efficiency Resource03:02 - Why focus on efficiency?07:11 - How efficiency increases security and reliability of energy delivery08:16 - How efficiency can be cost effective11:39 - Energy efficiency trends in the last 50 or so years15:08 - How to think about efficiency moving forward23:43 - What methods do we need to employ to get to net-zero. What role does efficiency play?

Michael Edesess, a mathematician, economist, and former chairman of the board of the Rocky Mountain Institute, discusses his recent article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "We need to get serious about the renewable energy revolution—by including nuclear power." We discuss changes in energy spurred in the 1970s, Michael's personal acquaintance with the mastermind of the soft energy path, Amory Lovins, and the shortcomings of the all-renewables vision of our energy future. Read the article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2022/05/we-need-to-get-serious-about-the-renewable-energy-revolution-by-including-nuclear-power/

Among the top importers of Russian oil are the EU, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and France. The EU accounted for 71% of oil imports from Russia 2 months after the war in Ukraine began. But cutting off oil and gas imports from Russia completely can pose great challenges. The EU is attempting to wean off of Russian oil dependence in response to the invasion of Ukraine by hastening renewable energy adoption. The 1970's oil crises led to a flattening of the exponential demand growth for oil globally. It never recovered thanks to improvements in efficiency. What lessons can we learn from the past as we face the current oil and gas crisis brought on by Putin's war? We spoke with Amory Lovins, co-author of a recent RMI article assessing the geopolitical dynamics driving a pivot away from fossil fuels.Chapters:1:29 The 70's energy crisis compared to today10:09 Russia's energy role14:12 Policy change following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.23:15 How might this impact Europe's energy sources over the next several years?26:48 How might this impact renewable energy adoption around the world?

Brian Gitt was once a true Amory Lovins all-renewables believer. But then, as he spent time in the industry, things stopped adding up. We talk about his journey towards the radiant light of nuclear and what renewables advocates leave out when they make their case. Follow Brian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianGitt Check out his website: https://briangitt.com/ Subscribe to Grid Brief: https://www.gridbrief.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nuclearbarians.substack.com

In 1973, when Arab countries cut off petroleum exports to the US, the price of oil quadrupled. People couldn't get access to gasoline. The economy shrunk.  The Arab oil embargo was framed almost entirely as a supply problem. But a few years later, a 28-year-old physicist named Amory Lovins published an article in Foreign Affairs magazine that completely shifted how we framed the issue.  Nearly a half century later, we revisit Amory's writing in the face of another global energy security crisis. Fossil fuel prices have spiked to record highs as a result of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. Countries are now racing to stop buying Russian oil & gas as quickly as possible. This week: Amory Lovins explains the profound changes taking place in the global energy system – and how Russia's war will accelerate them. Guests: Amory Lovins, co-founder and chairman emeritus at RMI. Read his latest piece on how Russia's war could accelerate the clean energy transition. We want to hear from you! Take our quick survey for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. This will help us bring you more relevant content. The Carbon Copy is a co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media. The Carbon Copy is supported by Nextracker. Nextracker's technology platform has delivered more than 50 gigawatts of zero-emission solar power plants across the globe. Nextracker is developing a data-driven framework to become the most sustainable solar tracker company in the world – with a focus on a truly transparent supply chain. Visit nextracker.com/sustainability to learn more. The Carbon Copy is supported by Scale Microgrid Solutions, your comprehensive source for all distributed energy financing. Distributed generation can be complex. Scale makes financing it easy. Visit scalecapitalsolutions.com to learn more.

Host Bill Nussey catches up with prolific author, professor, energy expert, co-founder of the global powerhouse, RMI, and “the Einstein of Energy Efficiency”, Amory Lovins. Lovins takes us back to the future, sharing what inspired the seminal work, Small is Profitable, and what surprises him most as he looks at the changes that have taken place since its publication twenty years ago. Lovins offers powerful insights on why local energy makes even more sense today in social, political, and economic terms and what has to change to continue the progress made thus far.

Edgardo Sepulveda, energy economist and seven-time Decouple guest, returns to delivers a synthesis episode. We draw together our previous analysis of the financial and regulatory conditions that enabled the initial build out of our grid, explore the Amory Lovins lost decades that saw electrification atrophy and examine the tools at our disposal to achieve an electrfication 2.0 to deliver a doubling of our current grid to help us meet net zero goals. This conversation builds off of Edgardo's recent research piece on the critical role that nuclear energy has played in the decarbonization of the electricity sector and what should be done to make sure this legacy is continued. Over the last six months Edgardo has compiled an extensive electricity and emissions dataset for 30 countries over the last 50 years at https://edecarb.org/. Based on this project, Edgardo was invited by Myrto Tripathi, head of the France-based nuclear advocacy group the Voices of Nuclear, to prepare this think piece, which went out as the March Newsletter in English. Sepulveda calculates that, over the last 50 years, countries that adopted nuclear power consistently reduced emissions intensity by more than three times as much as those that went without nuclear. Looking forward, the massive “Electrification 2.0” that will require a doubling or tripling of electricity generation by 2050 would provide the financial rationale for the needed massive capacity investments, particularly in nuclear. Lastly, we discuss market reforms that would be needed to correctly value the low-emissions, firm electricity provided by nuclear energy.

Physicist Amory Lovins is Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization working to transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future.He has written more than 800 papers and 31 books, including Natural Capitalism, Reinventing Fire, and Winning the Oil Endgame. For the past 45 years, he's advised major firms and governments in over 70 countries on clean energy—including the US Departments of Energy and Defense and a 7-year stint on the National Petroleum Council—as well as leading integrative design for superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles. Time has named him one of the world's 100 Most Influential People and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers.A Harvard and Oxford dropout, he's taught at 10 universities, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Scholar of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He teaches only topics he's never formally studied, so as to retain Beginner's Mind—a concept we'll get into in today's conversation. This is a much different side of Amory Lovins than you'll find in other public interviews.In this conversation, we talk about early childhood influences and illnesses, the 15 summers he spent guiding trips in the White Mountains of New Hampshire—a place that sparked his life-long interest in landscape photography and utter devotion to the natural world. I ask him what it's been like to be a pioneer in the clean energy space, facing the almost mythical powers of the fossil fuel industries, the impending threats of climate change, and decades of scrutiny from critics and those with vested interest in the status quo.We discuss biomimicry, natural capital, and integrative design, and the laws of nature that can help us build and live much more efficiently and harmoniously—concepts he discusses using the example of his own home office in Old Snowmass, Colorado, complete with a 900-square-foot tropical passive-solar banana farm inside. Amory quotes environmentalists, writers, spiritual leaders, sacred texts, and the Taoist outlook that keeps him centered and focused in order to carry out his work in the world.RMI.orgSupport the show (https://featheredpipe.com/gratitude/)

Bioneers are successfully employing the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: energy and agriculture. In a few decades, the U.S. can get completely off oil, as physicist Amory Lovins convincingly shows. Economist and anthropologist Jason Clay presents profitable examples of modeling nature's economics, from clean shrimp farms in Asia to healthy potatoes in Wisconsin. 

"Three-quarters of our military expenditure is for forces whose primary mission is intervention in the Persian Gulf. If we got off the oil, we wouldn't need most of the forces we have, it would be a very different world, and I think a much safer as well as a fairer and richer one." The concept of national security is moving beyond bullets, bombs, soldiers and warcraft to encompass the country's internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability. What's needed, say two leading environmental visionaries, is the equivalent of a wartime mobilization to create a sustainable planet including a far more decentralized infrastructure. Global energy strategist Amory Lovins and Oberlin College Professor David Orr advocate sustainability as the strategic imperative and foundation for a new national security narrative. The military is starting to agree.

While this podcast features a conversation with sustainable energy pioneer Paul Popinchalk, you cannot help but notice that every step along the way has been beside his life partner and wife Nancy, whom he mentions regularly. It's fair to say that the journey he has been on is nothing if not a collaboration between two remarkable people who have had one anther's backs through thick and thin. Early in their professional careers Paul and Nancy - after the birth of their first child, Seth - discovered that the waste from the nuclear plant where Paul was employed had leaked from 3 of the 10 massive storage tanks where it had been stored, contaminating more than 50 miles of the Columbia river basin so completely that it was unsafe to even disturb the soil for fear of exposure to high levels of radiation. This and other cascading events caused a sea change in the lives of Paul and Nancy and set them on the path that has placed them in the vanguard of those working to create what Amory Lovins called the "Soft Path" to a low carbon future. In a candid and soul-searching conversation, this Podcast brings us a rare look at the "ground-level" experience of scientists who chose to take a risk that they could help bring about a better future for their son and the sons and daughters of all of us.

Our interview featuring Amory Lovins, the foremost energy efficiency guru in the world [IMHO]. Amory invented the concept of “negawatt” - meaning a watt of energy saved through efficiency replaces a watt of generated energy, but without the huge negative environmental impact, and a higher return on investment. Amory talks to David about why the human brain can't easily comprehend the benefits of designing without (i.e. efficiency instead of mechanical systems), COP26 achievements, the latest and coolest climate technologies Amory is seeing, and why Amory has dedicated more than four decades of service to helping us not only wake up, but actually survive; something Amory calls “applied hope.”

#62: Tech entrepreneur, Bill Nussey joins the Clean Power Hour! Bill has been traveling the globe interviewing the best and brightest minds (like Amory Lovins, the founder of Rocky Mountain Institute) on the topics of solar PV and battery storage. He's compiled these interviews and learnings into a wonderful book. And many of the interviews are found on his podcast, Freeing Energy. Bill is also a solar PV entrepreneur and the CEO of Solar Inventions which is developing next generation solar technology. We discuss “What is a smart grid?” and how innovation in technology makes local energy possible and disruption of the traditional grid likely and inevitable. Listen, learn and share this podcast with your friends! Take aways: The Smart Grid is here to staySolar and battery storage are the bees kneesLocal energy gives power to the peopleBill Nussey - founder of Freeing Energy and CEO of Solar Inventionshttps://www.freeingenergy.com/www.freeingenergybook.com https://www.solarinventions.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billnussey/ Podcast: https://www.freeingenergy.com/podcasts/ More on BillBill Nussey is a career tech CEO with three successful exits, including an IPO. Hehas also been an investor with venture capital firm, Greylock. After IBM acquiredhis company, he became IBM's VP Corporate Strategy, helping lead thecompany's overall strategy. As a CEO, his companies have raised more than $400million, created thousands of jobs and several billion in shareholder value. Mostrecently, he co-founded Solar Inventions, which recently won almost $1 millionin prizes from the first-ever US Department of Energy startup competition for abreakthrough in solar cell architecture. He also hosts a popular podcast andwebsite that laid the foundation for the book. He received a degree in electricalengineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from HarvardBusiness School.Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/ Twice a week we highlight the tools, technologies and innovators that are making the clean energy transition a reality - on Apple,

Biden is pushing for massive green power integration, but our own authors say markets and technology have a lot of catching up to do. Yet famous physicist and energy expert Amory Lovins says the green power revolution is further along than you might think. Plus: New Zealand had its warmest winter ever, and Jared discusses how the healthcare industry is one of America's dirtiest. 

“Energy efficiency is not the only thing we need to be doing, but it's the most powerful, under-scoped, under-invested, under-perceived part of the energy solution." Energy efficiency pioneer, Amory Lovins, on how intelligent design will save the planet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thekampsolutionseries/support

Join us on the final episode of 2020, as we look back and recap the speakers who joined us in our ten-part, six month long Making Energy Work webinar series. On today's episode we're taking a clean energy train ride through topics from net metering to creative financing for LMI communities and wrapping up with a special keynote guest. Throughout this virtual 2020 journey we were joined by the likes of Jeff St. John from Greentech Media, Holmes Hummel of Clean Energy Works, Sushma Masemore of NC DEQ, Jigar Shah of the Energy Gang, and Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute. We're tuning into the highlights of these webinars, but for full recordings you can join NCSEA as a member today: energync.org/join. Enjoy your Squeaky Clean holidays! We'll see you in 2021! Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Matt Abele (Twitter: @MattAbele)

From ecopolitical history to tips on environmental activism techniques, this episode is the perfect primer on ecopolitics in Canada. Guided by the seasoned Robert Paehlke -- one of the founding voices in the field of environmental politics -- we discuss the environmental movement, and the ways in which the movement has changed over the past five decades.

Episode 43. March 27, 2020 CLP Topic Category: Vichy Republican Collaborators Who Is It In America That Is Responsible For Implementing the Trade Agreements With China? Note to visitors: Our podcast today is the Introduction to a much longer document that explains who it is in America that was responsible for implementing the trade deals with China. The other sections of the longer podcast are: The American Roots of Globalism The Link Between Globalism and American Crony Capitalism Civil Dissolution or Civil War? Irreconcilable Differences You can access this podcast, for free, for one week, at our website. You can subscribe to our entire archive of podcasts and text at our website for $30 per year.   Introduction: Our podcast today examines the argument made by Mike Slater, on the tv program, The First, that China is an enemy of the United States. Slater explains that the most recent Wu Virus is only the latest of three epidemics, in 20 years, unleashed on the world by the militaristic, repressive Communist regime in Beijing. The most charitable interpretation of this behavior by the Communists is that they are wildly incompetent to control the outbreaks of deadly diseases. The more accurate interpretation of the behavior, explained by Slater, is that they are an enemy of the U. S., intent on destroying the fabric of American society. Our podcast today adopts the second interpretation in order to examine what political and financial forces in America were responsible for forming the close ties between the two countries. We agree with the analysis of Curtis Ellis, in his article, China's Post-Virus Plan to Destroy America's Economy, where he states that, “The “respected voices” calling for America to lift the tariffs on China are simply swallowing Beijing's sophisticated propaganda. China means to use this crisis to destroy us…Moreover, Beijing sees an opportunity in the pandemic to reverse President Trump's call to move manufacturing out of China. China's State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), stated: “China will get more opportunities, including in the reduction of pressure for the international industrial chain to transfer away from China . . . The global epidemic has provided opportunities for improving China's international position and countering anti-globalization.” We argue that, in the late 1980s, the 1500 member companies of the Business Roundtable were effective in perpetrating a fraud that China was just like any other country in terms of global trade. We argue that those same corporate actors continue, today, to coordinate their political strategy with special interest lobbying groups and crony capitalist elected representatives, who obtain personal financial benefits from passing legislation that have continued the re-authorization of the deals with China. The lobbyists for the Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote the draft legislation, in 1999, in order for the corporations to obtain huge profits from moving production to China, and then selling those cheap goods back to the American market. The main political representatives who voted initially to implement the deals, and then voted to re-authorize the deals, are a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, who obtained vast financial benefits from “tribute” paid by the corporations. The large corporations obtained an 80% cost saving in production of goods in China, and while a small portion of the savings showed up in cheaper goods, the vast majority went to the bottom line profits of the large corporations. Most of the profits earned from overseas production were never taxed in the U. S., and were never repatriated, in the form of capital investments, back into the U. S. domestic economy The U. S. corporate profits were reinvested in China, which empowered the successful Chinese economy, and allowed their national champion industries to become wildly profitable. Elected representatives at the state and Federal level worked together to advocate the public benefits of trade with China. For example, In North Carolina, Governor Hunt hosted an annual event, called the Emerging Issues Forum, to promote global trade. Governor Hunt created the Forum in October 1985 to provide a catalyst for the discussion and action needed to move the United States forward in the world economy. His political mantra was that North Carolina workers must be “competitive” with global workers. The second conference, in February 1987, drew 1,500 people to the McKimmon Center on the NC State University campus and featured speakers that included Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton, Steve Forbes, Robert Rubin, Jay Rockefeller, Amory Lovins, Al Gore, and Paul Volcker. While President Trump has correctly ranted incessantly about the unfair trade deals, he never identifies the political or corporate actors, listed above, who are responsible for allowing the trade deals to be enacted. Citizens need to know who it was in America that engaged in a form of national economic sedition of collaborating with an enemy. The Wu Virus is helping the citizens understand the extent of the danger caused by trade with China, but the virus has not clarified who is responsible for the economic damage. Our podcast goes further to explain who these agents are that promoted the trade fraud with China. We argue that the economic chaos inflicted by the Wu Virus is only the most immediate consequence of trade with China. Less well known is the negative effect on U. S. labor markets that became overly dependent on service jobs. In 2000, prior to the trade deals with China,, about  17,000 American workers were employed the production of goods, primarily in manufacturing firms. In 2000, about 75,000 workers were employed in the service industries. In 2018, only 12,688 workers were employed in manufacturing and 129,000 workers, or 80% of the U. S. labor force, was employed in services. The services economy is commonly called the “gig” economy, that features low paying, unstable jobs, that offer no health benefits. In Governor Hunt's propaganda of the benefits of trade with China, required North Carolina workers to be “competitive” with China meant transferring North Carolina jobs from manufacturing to the gig economy. North Carolina's formerly diversified economy employed about 800,000 workers in manufacturing, before the trade deals. After the trade deals with China, out of a total state workforce of 5 million, about 400,000 workers were employed in manufacturing, and over 1 million were employed in the service sectors. The service industry is made up of restaurant workers and retail shops, and is the most vulnerable to mass layoffs from the Chinese disruption to the S. economy.   After the trade deals were implemented, the U. S. labor market and economy lacked diversification, and its occupational job structure looked just like the third world economies in Latin America and Africa. The relocation of medical supply chains by large global corporations also exposed another hidden consequence of trade with China. When the entire inter-industry manufacturing supply chains moved to China, local towns that relied on manufacturing jobs were devastated. Those local economies became overly dependent on service jobs, and on increased government welfare payments. More importantly, by moving the supply chains off shore, America's single most important competitive initial factor endowment of technological innovation was lost. Technological innovation, prior to the trade deals, used to occur in the metro regional manufacturing supply chains in 350 metro regions, as a result of tacit knowledge creation and diffusion among the small manufacturing firms. After the trade deals, the citizens discovered that innovation and product commercialization does not occur in the gig economy. Innovation occurs in the industrial supply chains, now located in China. We argue that the members of the Business Roundtable, and the establishment Republican Party knew, in advance, the economic damage that would be caused by moving the supply chains to China, but calculated that the benefits of their increased profits outweighed the social costs imposed upon American citizens. Part of their propaganda, at the time, was that there would be high paying, stable jobs in services that replaced the high paid manufacturing jobs. This was a lie, and the elites knew it was a lie, at the time that they used it to change the laws on trade with China. The dysfunctional American political system is accurately described by Angelo Codevilla, as the Ruling Class, who make decisions that are not connected to the will of the citizens. Secret decisions by the Ruling Class are the primary cause for the trade agreements with China. The American citizens were never informed about the globalist intent of the elites, or the permanent economic damage caused by the deals, until it was too late. We conclude that the problem of a dysfunctional crony capitalist system and the centralized Ruling Class elite tyranny in Washington cannot be fixed, under the existing Constitution. The ideology of globalism, in both the socialist Democrat and crony corporate Republican Party is too entrenched, and the unelected power of the deep state agents are too deeply embedded in the government apparatus to be dislodged by common citizens, through periodic elections. We conclude that nothing binds the globalist factions together in a common national mission with Trump's national sovereignty ideology. The global Democrat socialists will never voluntarily obey the unwritten American rule of law because they will never share the cultural belief that all persons, institutions, and entities are subject to the equal application of the law. The crony global corporate elites will never, willingly, give up their trans-national global trading privileges to share power with common citizens, in the current framework of the representative republic. The establishment Republicans, like Senator Burr, of North Carolina, derive too many financial benefits from collaborating with the Democrats and global corporations, to change the status quo of power, or the distribution of tribute. The solution for citizens is to follow the advice of Jefferson, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to the ends for which it was created, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. The best, non-violent, idea for dealing with the irreconcilable ideological differences is a civil dissolution of the nation and the implementation of a new government, based upon the framework of state sovereignty, under the provisions of Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, the state compact clause. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted Citizen Liberty Party News Network podcast for March 27, 2020. Our podcast today is under the CLP topic category Vichy Republican Collaborators and is titled, Who Is It In America That Is Responsible For the Trade Agreements With China? The most recent podcast of the CLP News Network is available for free. The entire text and audio archive of our podcasts are available for subscription of $30 per year, at the CLP News Network.com.  

Amory Lovins welcomes Jurriaan Kamp at his home in Snowmass, CO to talk about how intelligent design will save the planet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thekampsolutionseries/support

Host Jurriaan Kamp continues to deliver uplifting, inspiring, and impactful conversations to viewers. "The Kamp Solutions Series"​ has become a weekly destination for relevant, real and impactful conversations. Bringing a refreshing solution driven perspective to global problems, Jurriaan's engaging personality and unique take on our world's challenges invite a relaxed and candid environment that allows his guests to engage in entertaining and thoughtful discussions on topical issues. The environment also often leads to having moments of unpredictable discussions, illuminating celebrities "​in the moment,"​ and saying things viewers won't experience anywhere else. First season's guest include: Richard Branson, Bill Joy, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Deepak Chopra, Amory Lovins among others. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thekampsolutionseries/support