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Jason Lovins - Pilgrim Road -Episode 570 - Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)     JASON LOVINS BAND CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PILGRIM ROAD   NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Celebrating two decades of music and ministry in 2025, the Jason Lovins Band is poised to commemorate the milestone year with Pilgrim Road (New Day Digital Distribution), out January 17. Featuring 11 tracks produced by the Kentucky-based group and showcasing their signature sound—a unique tapestry of gospel, country and pop influences—Pilgrim Road is hallmarked by guest appearances from bluegrass hitmakers Chosen Road and longtime NewSong frontman and acclaimed singer/songwriter Russ Lee. The title cut, a modern hymn written by Noah Baker and Jason Lovins, encapsulates the album's theme as well as the overarching mission of the Jason Lovins Band. “Not only does ‘Pilgrim Road' capture the heart of what we want to say with this record—sharing the Gospel and reflecting on the journey from Genesis to Revelation—but naming the album Pilgrim Road felt right as we look back on 20 years together and see God's faithfulness every step of the way," says Lovins. "Even after all this time, it feels like we're just getting started, and we're excited for the road ahead.” Further highlights of Pilgrim Road include the project's latest single, “Hide My Soul,” a joyful worship anthem penned by Daniel Doss, Emma Feldman, Jonathan Jackson and Jonathan Turner, along with the band's two guest collaborations: a bluesy bluegrass take on the 1890 Gospel classic “Life's Railway To Heaven” featuring Chosen Road, and the impassioned pop anthem “Constant” with vocal contributions from Russ Lee. In addition, Pilgrim Road continues the Jason Lovins Band's longstanding tradition of showcasing a Spanish-language selection on each album. “En La Cruz,” a rendition of the beloved hymn “At The Cross,” is a nod to group member Rodney Mora's heritage and serves as a poignant reminder of the Gospel's power to transcend languages and cultures. “Our pianist Rodney Mora was born and raised in Venezuela and grew up in a Christian home, which is not the norm there,” explains Lovins. “I remember the first time we sang a song together, me in English and Rodney in Spanish, it really opened my eyes to just how big God is. He has no barriers, and He understands and hears us both.” “Hymns have shaped our lives and faith, and we feel blessed to carry them forward,” Lovins adds. “I grew up surrounded by these songs that have stood the test of time and tell great stories of the faith. Hymns have a way of bridging and connecting generations, so we want to keep putting our own twist on them.” ABOUT THE JASON LOVINS BAND   With a unique fusion of country, gospel and worship styles anchored in Jason Lovins' Appalachian heritage, the Jason Lovins Band has been delivering modern arrangements of sacred hymns alongside their own acclaimed originals since 2005. Lovins' personal testimony propels the band's mission and purpose, and they have released 11 full-length recordings to date, including the three-volume Songs From Sunday series and two Christmas projects. Helmed by Lovins and comprised of members Rodney Mora, Aaron Crozier and Jonathan Nicholson, the Jason Lovins Band has opened for Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Crowder and Point of Grace, among others. In addition, the group has appeared at Billy Graham Crusades and multiple Southern Baptist state conventions, and they perform at numerous churches and conferences around the country each year. Jason Lovins' life is a testament to the faithfulness of God—the only Father he has ever known. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, to a 15-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger as she walked home from the community swimming pool, Lovins was raised by his mother and grandmother in a devout household of faith. As a child he traveled throughout Appalachia with his grandmother's Gospel singing group, but it was his first encounter with contemporary Christian music as a teenager that changed the trajectory of his life. Immediately captivated by the modern worship he heard at a youth group meeting, Lovins was inspired to embark on a lifelong mission of ministry-driven music. Early in his career, while performing with his college band in a local church, Lovins felt compelled to tell his birth story for the first time on stage. Deeply moved by his testimony, the church's pastor made Lovins promise he would continue to share the pivotal account each time he performed. Since that day, Lovins' testimony has been a cornerstone of the Jason Lovins Band's ministry platform. For further information, visit jasonlovins.com or turningpointpr.com. Follow the Jason Lovins Band on Instagram and Facebook. ----more----     Don't forget about our music sale on Bandcamp. Use the code “10off” on RickLeeJames.Bandcamp.com to get 10% off your purchase. Blessings, Rick Lee James Email: Rick@RickLeeJames.com Don't forget about our music sale on Bandcamp. Use the code “10off” on RickLeeJames.Bandcamp.com to get 10% off your purchase. Blessings, Rick Lee James   Email: Rick@RickLeeJames.com Blessings, Rick Lee James     Get the new song - Whatever You Do       VINYL SALE THUNDER by Rick Lee James ONLY $9.99. (Plus you get a free digital download of the album)   VINYL SALE - “KEEP WATCH, DEAR LORD” BY RICK LEE JAMES

JASON LOVINS BAND CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PILGRIM ROAD NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Celebrating two decades of music and ministry in 2025, the Jason Lovins Band is poised to commemorate the milestone year with Pilgrim Road (New Day Digital Distribution), out January 17. Featuring 11 tracks produced by the Kentucky-based group and showcasing their signature sound—a unique tapestry of gospel, country and pop influences—Pilgrim Road is hallmarked by guest appearances from bluegrass hitmakers Chosen Road and longtime NewSong frontman and acclaimed singer/songwriter Russ Lee. The title cut, a modern hymn written by Noah Baker and Jason Lovins, encapsulates the album's theme as well as the overarching mission of the Jason Lovins Band. “Not only does ‘Pilgrim Road' capture the heart of what we want to say with this record—sharing the Gospel and reflecting on the journey from Genesis to Revelation—but naming the album Pilgrim Road felt right as we look back on 20 years together and see God's faithfulness every step of the way," says Lovins. "Even after all this time, it feels like we're just getting started, and we're excited for the road ahead.” Further highlights of Pilgrim Road include the project's latest single, “Hide My Soul,” a joyful worship anthem penned by Daniel Doss, Emma Feldman, Jonathan Jackson and Jonathan Turner, along with the band's two guest collaborations: a bluesy bluegrass take on the 1890 Gospel classic “Life's Railway To Heaven” featuring Chosen Road, and the impassioned pop anthem “Constant” with vocal contributions from Russ Lee. In addition, Pilgrim Road continues the Jason Lovins Band's longstanding tradition of showcasing a Spanish-language selection on each album. “En La Cruz,” a rendition of the beloved hymn “At The Cross,” is a nod to group member Rodney Mora's heritage and serves as a poignant reminder of the Gospel's power to transcend languages and cultures. “Our pianist Rodney Mora was born and raised in Venezuela and grew up in a Christian home, which is not the norm there,” explains Lovins. “I remember the first time we sang a song together, me in English and Rodney in Spanish, it really opened my eyes to just how big God is. He has no barriers, and He understands and hears us both.” “Hymns have shaped our lives and faith, and we feel blessed to carry them forward,” Lovins adds. “I grew up surrounded by these songs that have stood the test of time and tell great stories of the faith. Hymns have a way of bridging and connecting generations, so we want to keep putting our own twist on them.” ABOUT THE JASON LOVINS BANDWith a unique fusion of country, gospel and worship styles anchored in Jason Lovins' Appalachian heritage, the Jason Lovins Band has been delivering modern arrangements of sacred hymns alongside their own acclaimed originals since 2005. Lovins' personal testimony propels the band's mission and purpose, and they have released 11 full-length recordings to date, including the three-volume Songs From Sunday series and two Christmas projects. Helmed by Lovins and comprised of members Rodney Mora, Aaron Crozier and Jonathan Nicholson, the Jason Lovins Band has opened for Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Crowder and Point of Grace, among others. In addition, the group has appeared at Billy Graham Crusades and multiple Southern Baptist state conventions, and they perform at numerous churches and conferences around the country each year.Jason Lovins' life is a testament to the faithfulness of God—the only Father he has ever known. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, to a 15-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger as she walked home from the community swimming pool, Lovins was raised by his mother and grandmother in a devout household of faith. As a child he traveled throughout Appalachia with his grandmother's Gospel singing group, but it was his first encounter with contemporary Christian music as a teenager that changed the trajectory of his life. Immediately captivated by the modern worship he heard at a youth group meeting, Lovins was inspired to embark on a lifelong mission of ministry-driven music. Early in his career, while performing with his college band in a local church, Lovins felt compelled to tell his birth story for the first time on stage. Deeply moved by his testimony, the church's pastor made Lovins promise he would continue to share the pivotal account each time he performed. Since that day, Lovins' testimony has been a cornerstone of the Jason Lovins Band's ministry platform. For further information, visit jasonlovins.com or turningpointpr.com. Follow the Jason Lovins Band on Instagram and Facebook.Don't forget about our music sale on Bandcamp.Use the code “10off” on RickLeeJames.Bandcamp.com to get 10% off your purchase.Blessings,Rick Lee JamesEmail: Rick@RickLeeJames.com  * Web Site: https://rickleejames.com* PURCHASE ALBUM: www.RickLeeJames.Bandcamp.com* SongSelect: https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/6152291/advent-hymn-watching-waiting-longing* Downloadable Charts and More available from LIFEWAYWORSHIP.COM: https://worship.lifeway.com/findAndBuy/songPage/AdventHymn(Watching%2CWaiting%2CLonging)?versionId=93901&rowNum=0&searchString=Advent%20Hymn%20(watching,%20Waiting,%20Longing)#song-Parts* Loop Community: https://loopcommunity.com/en-us/songs/advent-hymn-(watching%2C-waiting%2C-longing)-by-rick-lee-james-3892 Endorsements:“A perfect and needed addition to any Christmas playlist this year. Rick Lee James bringing home the Advent Message.”-CCM Magazine https://www.ccmmagazine.com/music-video/rick-lee-james-advent-hymn-watching-waiting-longing/“I love Advent Hymn (Watching, Waiting, Longing), which gives newness to the phrases of Isaiah. Watching, waiting, and longing is what we do now, and these songs help us do that in confidence. I anticipate that this album will be received as a great gift by many who will find their faith nourished and awakened by it.”–Walter Brueggemann (Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary)"I've watched Rick grow as an artist and songwriter for many years. Congratulations brother on an excellent independent release."-Paul Baloche (Dove Award Winning Songwriter)"Rick Lee James is a poet and singer. You will not only enjoy listening, you'll be drawn into the source –Jesus."-Mike HarlandRICK LEE JAMES INFOWeb Sites:https://www.rickleejames.comGet The Single:https://rickleejames.hearnow.com/halls More from Rick Lee JamesShine A Light In The DarknessGet The Single: https://rickleejames.hearnow.com/shine-a-light-in-the-darknessMusic Video:Rick Lee James Playlist on Spotify:https://t.co/S7nCRl0xqa This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rickleejames.substack.com/subscribe

Guest: Jason Lovins of the Jason Lovins BandAlbum Project: Pilgrim RoadTopic: he shared about his young mother's life-affirming decision & shared about the concept of the band's music, including songs on an album called, Pilgrim RoadWebsite: jasonlovins.com

Jason Lovins shares his remarkable life story with Kelly Wright. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, to a 15-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger as she walked home from the community swimming pool, Lovins was raised by his mother and grandmother in a devout household of faith. As a child, he traveled throughout Appalachia with his grandmother's Gospel singing group. Ultimately, he embarked on a career in contemporary Christian music, opening for Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, and more. ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

Tennessee Evangelist Stan Lovins joins to talk about the victims who live in areas that were recently devastated by Hurricane Helene.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us for the fifth session of our Soil Conversations series, featuring a compelling discussion with Hunter Lovins, renowned environmentalist, author, and champion of sustainable development. This session promises to delve into the intricate relationships between soil health, climate resilience, and sustainable agriculture. Lovins will share her wealth of knowledge on how nurturing our soil can lead to a regenerative future, offering insights drawn from her extensive experience and pioneering work in the field.In this conversation, we will explore practical strategies for improving soil health and enhancing ecosystem services. Lovins will discuss the role of innovative agricultural practices, such as agroforestry and holistic management, in building resilient food systems. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how healthy soils contribute to carbon sequestration, water retention, and biodiversity, and how these benefits can be realized on both local and global scales.This session is an invaluable opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in sustainability and to engage in a dialogue about the future of our soils. Hunter Lovins' unique perspective, grounded in decades of activism and research, will provide a rich context for understanding the critical importance of soil stewardship in addressing the pressing environmental challenges of our time.L. Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably.  A professor of sustainable business management at Fordham University, Hunter teaches entrepreneuring and coaches social enterprises around the world. A Managing Partner of NOW Partners, she is also a board member of Aquion and several non-profits. Hunter has worked in energy, regenerative agriculture, climate policy, sustainable development and resilience for 55 years.A consultant to industries including International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and Clif Bar, Hunter has briefed heads of state, the UN, and the US Congress, leaders of the numerous local governments, the Pentagon, and officials in 30 countries. Author of 17 books – including the recently released A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life, which won a Nautilus Award – Hunter has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon. Support the show

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/korean-studies

EPISODE 113 | Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid Guest: Chris Underwood, author of the The Cold Winter series Our digital age needs electricity more than anything else. But what would happen is part of the power grid went down during one of the worst winter storms in history? That's the premise of Chris Underwood's thriller series The Cold Winter. The fact is that power grid is vulnerable, and a series of low-tech in recent years have highlighted some serious problems that have still not been addressed.  Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:35 -  A look at the first two novels, the inspiration and overall plot 09:10 - The third book, the history of the Ohio River, companies still use COBOL, Huey helicopters and LST-235 13:56 - Blackouts inspire the Pentagon to commission the report Brittle Power, it all costs money, attacks against the grid in the 70s and later - the Metcalf Sniper Attacks, Russian hacks by Grizzly Steppe, transformers made in China, Jason Woodring's Arkansas attacks, a neo-Nazi couple in Baltimore, human attacks increasing, power stations themselves need power 24:20 - Weaponizing extreme climate, HAARP, the Walking Dead with weather, people become extreme in extreme situations 27:47 - Four types of threats, false flags  32:57 - We ship coal to China, cold fusion holdouts, education is the cure, the cavalry is not coming  37:38 - Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival, The Creatures of Holden Beach, this is a different Chris Underwood, prepper conventions, the Dayton Air Show Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Chris Underwood website The Cold Winter series by Chris Underwood The Mist by Stephen King The Road by Cormac McCarthy How a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath / Chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystems Blackouts cause N America chaos Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard Keeping the electric grid safe from attack Sophisticated but low-tech power grid attack baffles authorities U.S. Power Grid Vulnerable to Attack: Congressional Research Service Attacks on power substations are growing. Why is the electric grid so hard to protect? How the US power grid is a target for far-right groups The story of Jason Woodring, the Arkansas power grid vandal Southern Idaho Man Sentenced for Destruction of Energy Facility After Shooting at Idaho Power Hydroelectric Plants Sniper attack on California power grid may have been 'an insider,' DHS says Physical attacks on power grid surge to new peak Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that's not even the scariest part What is going on with attacks on American power stations? Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Electric Power Grid 'Inherently Vulnerable' to Terrorist Attacks Girding the Grid in Security Management  Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant episode Mothman Festival website The Creatures of Holden Beach.....And the Murder they did NOT Commit! by Chris Underwood Prepper Camp The Dayton Air Show Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER  

In the latest Plastic.Climate.Future. episode, we dive into the world of sustainability with the incredible Hunter Lovins. As the founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions and a key figure in NOW partners, Lovins brings a wealth of experience and insights to the table. Throughout the episode, we explore the importance of education in driving sustainable decision-making and how implementing sustainability practices can actually boost profitability for companies. Lovins also introduces us to the "D.O.T. approach" - Everyday Do One Thing - encouraging listeners to take small steps towards a greener future. Join us as we uncover the power of everyday actions and their potential to make a big impact. Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts, and let's take strides towards a more sustainable world together.

Wednesday – We discuss what burns you out at work. Jim is angry at Apple's list of best albums, at Tom Brady for his Roast excuse, and at us for hoping he gets a cat that will destroy his home. Jim's new character, High Blood Pressure guy. Kathy Burns from the Pet Alliance brings Fiesta the dog in for Animal House. Plus, WOKE News, JCS Trivia & You Heard it Here First.

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

The U.S. corrections system is at a crossroads, grappling with high recidivism rates and the growing need for a shift from punitive approaches to more rehabilitative and supportive measures. By integrating data-driven applications and fostering relationships between inmates and corrections staff, there's potential to reform how jails and prisons operate. This not only aims to better assess risks but also to ensure the safety of both correctional officers and incarcerated individuals, preparing them for a successful reintegration into society. In this episode of the Policing Matters podcast, host Jim Dudley welcomes Dr. Brian Lovins, a criminology expert and principal at Justice System Partners, and past president of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA). Dr. Lovins discusses the application of data-driven technologies in corrections and emphasizes the importance of relationship-building in rehabilitation. The conversation delves into how corrections agencies can use these tools to ensure safety, facilitate rehabilitation and prepare inmates for life after release. About our sponsor This episode of the Policing Matters podcast is sponsored by OfficerStore. Learn more about getting the gear you need at prices you can afford by visiting OfficerStore.com.

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…..

Just Getting Some Puppy Lovins

Join Pastor Todd as he welcomes Evangelist Stan Lovins II! Stan is a Revival Evangelist with a burning passion to see God's Healing Power and Salvation to Rise Up in the heart and soul of today's people with the Love of Jesus Christ “Bringing Healing To The Hurting!”. He is the Founder and President of Stan Lovins II Ministries, Sandlot Ministries and Victory Fire Events. https://www.stanlovins.com/ --------------------------------------------------- To Give: www.ToddCoconato.com/give New Book: www.PastorToddBook.com Website: www.PastorTodd.org Church website: www.RRCNashville.org

Personal testimony of a man who had wrecked his life and was found by Jesus who radically restored his life.

Bonjour à toutes et à tous ! L'épisode n°145 des avis d'Alexis est en ligne, une chronique, un tour décortiqué et évalué. Aujourd'hui, nous allons vous parler d'un tour s'appelant "What Tha" de Rodger Lovins. Il a reçu la note de 3/4 coeurs et une note de 2/5 étoiles en difficulté. Le PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/lesamisdalexis La chaine des Alexis Reviews : http://www.youtube.com/c/alexisreviews Mon Instagram : https://instagram.com/lesavisdalexis?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Mon Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lesavisdalexis/ Si vous avez des questions, je serai ravi d'y répondre ! Bonne écoute :)     Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bart Lovins is an actor, director, writer, and founding director of the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center. Find more at bartlovins.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/elizabethtownpodcast/support

Jesus desires to transform your life! There is not a sin you can get yourself into the that the blood of Jesus cannot get you out of. In this Podcast Dr. Caleb Cooper interviews Stan Lovins II about hope, healing and the need for the body of Christ to walk in unity in the last days. Vist Revivals For Jesus with Stan Lovins at RevivalsForJesus.com Click here listen to another sermon on Caleb Cooper Ministries YouTube Channel called "Strong Foundations Obey the Revelation of God's Word" Subscribe to Caleb Cooper Ministries YouTube Channel YouTube.com/CalebCooperMinistries Be sure to read Frank Shelton's latest book called URGENCY: Heaven or Hell? Available at Frank Shelton.com and Amazon.com  Be sure to read Dr. Caleb Cooper's book "Uncompromised Revival Fire: Burning Hotter Than Hell" Forword by Todd Smith as well as his latest  book "Battle Ready Remnant: Called To Contend" Foreword by Todd Coconato. These Books, E-books, Classic Sermon Series (audio/downloadable), Articles and a Sermon library are all avalaible at calebcooperministries.com and Calebcooperbooks.com Finally, be sure to watch the new movie NonCompliant 2: The Sheriff and use the promo code "CALEB20" to save 20% OFF for individual and group showings as well as the purchase of the film. Go to NonCompliantMovie.com. Click here to watch the trailer for the movie: NonCompliant 2: The Sheriff.

The house Stan Lovins grew up in can only be described as a literal hell...

The house Stan Lovins grew up in can only be described as a literal hell...

The house Stan Lovins grew up in can only be described as a literal hell...

The final BLK Lion's Airspace episode on April 23, 2022! We are now over 666 episodes. Time to move forward. We're on the road to 700. How are we getting there is one word. Lovins!

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.

On this episode, we welcome Peter Lovins, Associate General Counsel for the Columbus Blue Jackets to discuss his role with the team, as well as the importance of representation of LGBTQIA+ folks in NHL Front Offices such as himself. We talk about the idea of Hockey is For Everyone and have meaningful conversation about how the sport of hockey can be better for folks of marginalized communities. We cover on-ice topics, such as the Blue Jackets successful four game stretch against four of the league's best teams (Toronto, Florida, Carolina, and Pittsburgh) and look ahead to Tuesday's matchup against the New Jersey Devils. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @CBJectivelyPod, find us on Facebook by searching "CBJectively Speaking", and check out our website cbjectivelyspeaking.com. You can also access our merch store by heading to cbjectivelyspeaking.threadless.com. Be sure to follow Peter on Twitter @PeterLovins Rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen! Keep up with the other shows on The Hockey Podcast Network by following @Hockeypodnet. Support for this podcast is brought to you by DraftKings, use promo code "THPN" for your chance to win cold hard cash this season!

Today's guest: Evangelist Stan Lovins  Here is a link to Stan's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanLovinsII/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help us fund the operation here: www.ToddCoconato.com/give Get up to the minute news here: www.Remnant.News Download our new app at www.ToddCoconato.com/app Follow Pastor Todd here: www.toddcoconato.com/findme Go to our store for special deals for Remnant Warriors here: https://remnant.news/hanews/deals-for-remnant-warriors/  

Mark Nelson joins me to discuss Amory Lovins, the man behind the “soft energy path” and the intellectual godfather of Germany's Energiewende. Amory Lovins shot to relevance in the 1970s for advising against the prevailing model for electric utilities, which was to build as much generation capacity as possible. Lovins charted an alternate path, which focused on efficiency and distributed energy sources. Mark offers his critique of Lovins, based on what he identifies as the two main faults that have persisted in Lovins' argument for decades: 1) the idea that the “soft” and “hard” energy paths are mutually exclusive, and 2) the supremacy of nuclear “problem.” Mark Nelson is the managing director of Radiant Energy Group. He holds degrees in mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, as well as Russian language and literature.

Listen in as author and entrepreneur Bill Nussey and his wife, Melinda, reveal the arc of the journey that is Freeing Energy.  This is the story behind what Kirkus reviews calls, “an unfailingly realistic and doggedly clear-eyed blueprint for the billion dollar opportunities that will reshape how we generate, store, and consume clean local renewable electricity.” Written for innovators, entrepreneurs, and advocates for clean energy, Freeing Energy, the book, is now available.

This week we have a great conversation with Dr. Brian Lovins, President of the American Probation Parole Association (APPA).   We discuss his work with the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute, the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department as well as his insightful publications.  Dr. Lovins has a passion for his work, and it comes through in this interview…..enjoy! 

Showing love for my client, audience and more!

I love writing; alternatively, I've been a Power Rangers fan nearly 30 years. I talk about the general Tokusatsu fandom I have. It goes beyond PR.

Since Denise and Fulton Lovin swung the first sledgehammer to begin the renovation of an historic Downtown Boone property, The Horton Hotel has been at the center of community conversation. As the Lovins transformed their dream into reality, their idea for a boutique hotel was carefully executed, sourcing input from locals and future guests, to ensure the property had signature elements of both past and present built into its features.On this week's installment of Mind Your Business, we discuss the transition of this property to a new, locally-centric ownership group, and hear about their vision for building on The Horton's recognition as one of the most unique hotels of its kind. We'll also hear about a new twist to that "local story," that makes The Horton so special -- one of three App State graduates who are using this opportunity to complete their own "Booneerang," and put to use the professional skills they were taught as they were falling in love with our community as students.Featured Guests:Aaron AmmarPaul PessinaSean Sassano Adam Zembruski w/ Hospiamo Jason Boehm, CEO, Aileron Management Ben McKethen, Horton General Manager Mind Your Business is produced weekly thanks to a partnership between Appalachian Commercial Real Estate and High Country Radio.Support the show (https://www.boonechamber.com/membership-information)

Guests: Evangelist Stan Lovins and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel. 8/17/2021 Get in touch with Evangelist Stan Lovins at www.RevivalsForJesus.com Get in touch with Mat Staver at www.LC.org _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Help us fund the operation here: www.ToddCoconato.com/give Get up to the minute news here: www.Remnant.News Download our new app at www.ToddCoconato.com/app  Follow Pastor Todd here: www.toddcoconato.com/findme Go to our store for special deals for Remnant Warriors here: https://remnant.news/hanews/deals-for-remnant-warriors/ Pastor Todd's website: www.ToddCoconato.com

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Graham Hill has always been a pioneer. Early on, he created and sold one of the first internet companies, which gave him the opportunity to shift his focus. Since then he has created more companies, all with a focus on influencing the narrative around sustainability, which have been featured by the New York Times, Dwell, Discovery Channel, and “The Minimalists” documentary. Today, he is a leading figure at the intersection of entrepreneurialism, innovation, and sustainability. One of Fast Company's “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Graham is sought after for his ability to clearly communicate how we can all create a simpler, wealthier, greener, and happier planet. He has presented at many prestigious conferences including two main stage TED talks that have reached over 10 million people.  On this show, he is sharing about how speaking has helped him become a thought leader in the environmental space, and about his latest venture. 20 years in the making, The Carbonauts is the culmination of Graham Hill's environmental career and the start of a movement that could tip the balance in nature's favour, so that our planet and future generations are safe. Enjoy. What you'll learn: How Graham got started on his mission and why. The impact you can have when you have a powerful vision of the way you want things to be. How Graham has pivoted multiple times in his environmental career. Graham's view on the effect that the pandemic has had an effect on our relationship with the planet. Why we need to have an ‘improv mindset' to climate change. The change we could make tomorrow. How the personal benefits of choosing a lower carbon footprint can far outweigh the sacrifices.  The 5 most impactful ways we can reduce our carbon footprint? The impact that 3.5% of the population changing can have on change. Why speaking has been so critical in helping Graham become a thought leader.    All things Graham: Thecarbonauts.com @wethecarbonauts  TED Talk - Why I'm a weekday vegetarian by Graham Hill  TED Talk - Less Stuff, More Happiness Books:  Natural Capitalism - The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins The Overstory by Richard Powers   Resources: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thespeakingclub/ https://www.saraharcher.co.uk/challenge  https://www.facebook.com/SarahArcherSpeak/ https://www.saraharcher.co.uk https://www.standoutpitch.com Thanks for listening!   To share your thoughts:                                                       leave a comment below.     Share this show on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. To help the show out:     Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and review really help get the word out and I read each one.     Subscribe on iTunes.

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It’s an upside down potato head season five episode four episode for potato head season five take nine little piece sticker moist beaver tank lever in the weaver glass pipe in the Bunkie hall metal shards oh flank Stanky Bunkie passcode bigger digger bang bang foggy oh my goodness in a little at a lower Stangl steric all hate little boo-boo and my lemon stunk and Ube cake or Frank and stack I live in now but all on Alton Alton no I said all four and all five I said all bored all 54 legs good to legs bad at all give it give it get it you know who it is you know who you are you know what you be get what you got you get what you have you have what you want and all I ask is just for a little flavor favor come on give it 10 I want all the characters at 105670132158 you got me 32518 I said 32518 and the N8 is good 15 are eaten eight and six take on 914 now you give it to me I said I wanna and you give it to him give it particular tickled pink Lovins tackle fresh now if you get the stack of fresh and you getting the staff gone now stencil go and get it to me now all right you got Bayudan you got the Trump you got to harass you got the Kamala you got to Hawaii you got the German yeah I got some knob see you got the Covid you got this in sexing climate change in it and paint jobs on your freckles stat I can’t see how you don’t wanna ever ever wanna go back to anything so rough sandpaper brown shaving Rama moist pickle pickle a green pickle pickle oh hairy there shortly I got the burning man and you got all the free love and festivals naked when fresh clean pink sublimated win nickel nickel man nickel men in the rise given the science all the science all the psychology all of it all of the philosophical physiological hobnob and elite scientific cognitive science psychology with the biological twist of lime yeah who you gonna call come on give it to me do you want your psychic reading yeah I got the barn load I got the Indica the sativa Bon low whistle blow ass every bit of a kung fu wingchun Wiffle Blast karate chop Jiu Jitsu breaking in no who with zoo I like a dog I like a pitbull pitbull‘s great dog that’s better than a great big old pitbull oh and the good big dick and the great good big Vansville band in the Banville band players featuring a good big band field I’ve been on the road for so long I got the tire tracks in the snow snow bar mountain climb Pacific crest Trail hiking along with the soul burning souls burning with your feet feet stink in like a flower flowers and a flower to bake your flower flower bacon bacon flour salt sugar with cinnamon lots of cinnamon OK so you get the idea here we are we’re on the social medias with the anchor were making it all happen this is season five episode four it’s cranking out something crazy we are talking cranked like methamphetamine were talking crank like Wang boo Ya caccia Julia baba baba Hindi didn’t gotcha job or Zara Gerar Nora Astruc yeah Jean Rosta far I dinky dinky Jed jagged Natty Jack come on Binky Jenkee Nam yo ho renegade chill with a bang your Dunkee recall what we’re talking Wu-Tang clan with the Shaolin kung fu master we’re talking to Chris Chan we’re talking the amazing Randy with a dick grow you know the Dickie Dickey grow we’re talking national outdoor leader ship is Amanda his dizzy dizzy come on give it to me Godsmack in love Satan bring in the angel wings of fire with Vaseline oh my goodness we’re talking King Crimson we’re talking Jimi Hendrix we’re talking Led Zeppelin we’re talking Bjork we’re talking Snoop Doggy Dogg California 2021 may all the Internet action with an outback lunatic clean water fresh clean clean water super sexy put it in you five times in and out goody goody bang bang I got a pumpkin did the sweets secular corn on the cob watermelon fresh garden salad organic in your mouth orgasmic and you ain’t seen nothing until you read it all and you need to put it in your hands and wash your face with it bite off the ends of your hair keep it clean --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/integrity/support

LOVE IS IN THE AIR. AND HERE AT MY FRIEND SHOW, WE'RE FEELING IT HARD, FAST, AND STRONG. Part two of the Valentine's Spectacular features our wonderful guest and recent divorcee, Dakota Lovins (@kotalov16). This episode, we try and fix up Dakota's dating profile so he can forget about his ex-wife Mank and start tearing up the town. With the invaluable love advice that the My Friend Show cast brings, there's no way Dakota won't be finding the love of his life soon. Go listen to Dakota's podcast, Best Original Podcast (@PodBestOriginal)!!! Music by @sparkyandthehillsband; graphic by @joescar305.

2020 was a year of disruption! Join Kendra as she talks about how God has shifted her plans and focus in the middle of the pandemic.

H4, S2 - Puppy Lovins or Manipulation?? / Show Wrap 09/10/2020

L. Hunter Lovins discusses her new book, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service of Life and highlights the role of grazing in building soil to mitigate global warming. Lovins is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natural Capitalism Solutions. Interviewer, Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc.

It was a perfect week for Hot Hubby Jeremy to stop by... because it’s time for some sexy talk!

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo's changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo's legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/korean-studies

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo’s changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo’s legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo’s changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo’s legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo’s changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo’s legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new scholarship which has reassessed both his reign and his role in Korean history. The latest to do so is Christopher Lovins, who in his book King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea (State University of New York Press 2019) explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch. Lovins situates this within modern definitions of absolutism, showing how their conceptualizations apply to Chŏngjo just as effectively as they do to such period rulers as the Chinese emperor Qianlong and the French monarch Louis XIV. Motivated by the experiences with court factionalism that he blamed for the death of his father, Chŏngjo drew upon Confucian thinking to strengthen his position ideologically. These arguments he used to centralize power in his hands, most dramatically in his strengthening of the traditionally weak Korean army. Though many of Chŏngjo’s changes were undone after his death in 1800, Lovins makes the case that Chŏngjo’s legacy should be considered separate from the failings of his successors rather than as part of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We could use some good news. According to the four scholars who wrote A Finer Future, we are already experiencing some of the dramatic changes our system must undertake in order for our planet to meet the needs of future generations. This episode features a conversation with L. Hunter Lovins about the wellbeing economy and how sustainable behavior makes good business sense. Interestingly, this book grew out of a homework assignment from the King of Bhutan. Please think of us in your year-end giving. GrowthBusters is a non-profit project funded by YOU. DONATE HERE Hunter Lovins is President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions. She co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, and co-authored (with Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins) the landmark book, Natural Capitalism. Lovins consults on sustainability for corporate giants and world leaders. She also finds time to serve as professor of sustainable business at Bard MBA. This conversation was recorded in February of 2019, with introduction and close recorded in December of 2019.   LINKS: A Finer Future – book, blog, resources Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies - Study Wellbeing Economy Alliance Capital Institute Club of Rome The Limits to Growth The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update A Finer Future report for/by Club of Rome Happy Planet Index Global Alliance for Banking on Values Business End of Climate Change - Study Green Illusions by Ozzie Zehner Planet of the Humans - film Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter   Subscribe (free) so you don't miss an episode:

Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ The way smartphones made many devices nonessential is a model for a new way to think about improving energy efficiency. Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube members. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:  Dematerialization - using less (or no) material to deliver the same serviceEnergy conservation - using less energy by adjusting behavior (turning down your heat)Energy efficiency - using less energy by using technology that requires less energy to perform the same function (insulating your house to keep warm while using less energy)Energy intensity - energy consumption per unit of GDP (reduced by increasing energy efficiency)Energy services - the useful functions you're able to perform by using energy (what we refer to as ‘function’) ___________________________________________ If you liked this week’s video, you might also like:  Phones are great for the environment https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-environment-consumption/ Nope, phones are bad for the environment https://theconversation.com/how-smartphones-are-heating-up-the-planet-92793 Amory Lovins on ‘integrative design’ (watch the video abstract) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad965/meta The US would use 85% more energy if it weren’t for efficiency efforts since the 1970s https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/308170-cheap-clean-and-easily-accessible-an-energy-resource US energy intensity has halved since 1970 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=10191 This chart shows just how much energy the US is wasting https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/visualizing-u-s-energy-consumption-in-one-chart _________________________________________ Subscribe to MinuteEarth on YouTube: Support us on Patreon: And visit our website: https://www.minuteearth.com/ Say hello on Facebook: http://goo.gl/FpAvo6 And Twitter: http://goo.gl/Y1aWVC And download our videos on itunes:  https://goo.gl/sfwS6n ___________________________________________ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer, Editor and Video Narrator: Alex Reich (@alexhreich) Video Illustrator: Sarah Berman (@sarahjberman) Video Director: David Goldenberg (@dgoldenberg) With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Kate Yoshida, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, Julián Gómez, Arcadi Garcia Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: ___________________________________________ References: Belkhir, L., & Elmeligi, A. 2018. Assessing ICT global emissions footprint: Trends to 2040 & recommendations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 177, 448-463.   Bento, N. 2016. Calling for change? Innovation, diffusion, and the energy impacts of global mobile telephony. Energy Research & Social Science, 21, 84-100.   Cullen, J. M., Allwood, J. M., & Borgstein, E. H. 2011. Reducing energy demand: what are the practical limits?. Environmental science & technology, 45(4), 1711-1718. Fell, M. J. 2017. Energy services: A conceptual review. Energy research & social science, 27, 129-140.   Grubler, A., et al. 2018. A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies. Nature Energy, 3(6), 515.   Lovins, A. B. 2018. How big is the energy efficiency resource?. Environmental Research Letters, 13(9), 090401.   Popovich, N. March 8, 2019. America’s Light Bulb Revolution.   Suckling, J., & Lee, J. 2015. Redefining scope: the true environmental impact of smartphones?. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20(8), 1181-1196.   Visitor’s Guide. August 2007. Rocky Mountain Institute.  

On the latest episode of Field Days, Chris and Greg welcome back Friend of the Pod Dr. Brian Lovins. A Principal for Justice System Partners, Dr. Lovins is the Co-Editor for the American Probation and Parole Association's (APPA) Perspectives Journal, the former Assistant Director of Harrison County Community Supervision and Corrections Department and the President Elect for APPA.

Spoke with Rap Veteran Ryan Lovins/T13 of the Hip Hop Duo PHD. We talked about his long career as well other topics of interest and he finished off the podcast by spitting a verse.Social MediaMusic Page - www.hyperurl.co/ryanlovinsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/BrokeArtistShow/Instagram - @ryan_lovinsTIMESTAMPS01:30 - Ryan Lovins Managing All His Time05:09 - Cost Of Setting Up A Podcast05:50 - Los Angeles/Hockey07:50 - Differences Between America & New Zealand10:29 - Broke Artist Podcast12:44 - Rappers That Are Over-Confident Killing Them13:24 - PotHeads Days/How Ryan Met Anime16:05 - Digital Age Vs Old School Days17:50 - Looking Back On PHDs Accomplishments18:08 - Hard Making Money In Hip Hop19:14 - PHDs Loyal Fan Base20:25 - Melbourne/Australia21:15 - Proving Themselves To The New Dudes22:23 - PHDs Evolved Sound/Writing Process24:51 - Opening Up For International Acts/Performing Live27:51 - Meeting Hip Hop Celebs28:31 - Tech N9ne31:49 - Graffiti34:38 - PHD Still Working On New Music37:35 - Battle Rap/1Outs41:05 - PFAK43:12 - New School Battle Rappers Bringing Fire43:53 - Unchained XL44:50 - NZ Version Of The BET Cyphers46:40 - Getting More Music Guests/Playing Instruments47:49 - How Ryan Writes Now51:24 - Competitiveness With Other Rappers53:14 - PFAK part II55:04 - Ryan Getting Lost On The Drive Down55:41 - Traffic In Auckland56:45 - Leaving Auckland/Expenses In Auckland59:00 - Ryan Not An NZ Citizen1:00:00 - Christchurch1:02:02 - Wellington1:03:02 - Multicultural Aspect Of Auckland1:04:11 - Doing Your Own Music Videos1:05:00 - Drones1:08:53 - South Island’s Beauty/Culture1:10:18 - Ryan Doesn’t Want To Move For Kids Sake1:11:38 - Melbourne Artsy City1:12:01 - NZ Public Transport Is Terrible1:14:54 - Auckland CBD1:16:44 - Raising Kids Around Scary Technology1:17:57 - Bad Side Of Social Media1:23:58 - Kids Live In A Completely Different World1:26:55 - Cybersecurity/Black Mirror1:28:40 - How To Contact Ryan Lovins1:29:18 - Ryan Spits A Verse

The 17 rare earth elements are often called the spices or vitamins of industry. While we don’t need much of them, they’re sprinkled in small amounts through our most powerful, futuristic, and dare we say it, magical tools. They power our iPhones and computers; they’re in wind turbines and hybrid cars. They’re in dental implants, X-ray machines, and life-saving cancer drugs. They have unusual magnetic and electrical properties that make our gadgets faster, stronger, and lighter. And we've all been coasting along enjoying their magic for a while now. In fact, we've come to expect magic. But magic comes at a cost, and in the case of mining and processing rare earths, that cost is environmental devastation. Most of us in the Western world aren’t aware of the destruction/ because most rare earths are mined elsewhere. But some scientists are trying to find a more environmentally sound way to get them. Credits Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Reporter: Rigoberto Hernandez Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Audio Engineer: James Morrison Music courtesy of the Audio Network, Blue Dot Sessions, and the Free Music Archive. Research Notes Abraham, David. Elements of Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.  The Californian Rare Earths Mine Caught between Trump and China. Bloomberg News, September 26, 2018.   “China-Japan Boat Crash Video Posted.” Al Jazeera, November 5, 2010.  “China Threatens to Cut Off Rare Earth Minerals as Trade War Escalates.” MSNBC, May 30, 2019.  “Colorado Experience: Uranium Mania.” Rocky Mountain PBS, November 2, 2017.  “Critical Materials Strategy.” U.S. Department of Energy, December 2010.   Desai, Pratima. “Tesla’s Electric Motor Shift to Spur Demand for Rare Earth Neodymium.”Reuters, March 12, 2018.  Gifford, Rob. “Yellow River Pollution Is Price of Economic Growth.” National Public Radio, All Things Considered, December 11, 2007.  Haxel, Gordon, Hedrick, James, Orris, Greta. “Rare Earth Elements—Critical Resources for High Technology.” U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 087-02, November 20, 2002.  Kalantzakos, Sophia. China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.  Kean, Sam. “Ytterby: The Tiny Swedish Island That Gave the Periodic Table Four Different Elements.” Slate, July 16, 2010.  Kim, Meeri. “Exposing the Trail of Devastation.” Sarah Lawrence College Magazine,” Fall 2018.  Klinger, Julie. Rare Earth Frontiers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.  Lovins, Amory. “Clean Energy and Rare Earths: Why Not to Worry.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 23, 2017. “Obama Denounces China on Rare Earth Elements.” AFP News Agency, March 13, 2012.  “PBS NewsHour; June 14, 2010 7:00 pm–8:00 pm EDT.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston and Washington, DC. Accessed June 24, 2019.  “Running from Rare Earth Metals.” Bloomberg, June 30, 2015.  Salomon, Charlotte Abney. “Finding Yttrium: Joan Gadolin and the Development of a ‘Discovery.’” CHF Brown Bag Lecture Series, March 10, 2015.  “Story of Color Television.” RCA, 1956.  Thomson, Gene. “Hot Canyon.” Ames Laboratory, June 18, 2012.  Turner, Roger. “Material Matters: The Past and Present of Rare Earth Elements Essential to Our Future.” Joseph Priestley Society Lecture, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, February 14, 2019. 

The 17 rare earth elements are often called the spices or vitamins of industry. While we don’t need much of them, they’re sprinkled in small amounts through our most powerful, futuristic, and dare we say it, magical tools. They power our iPhones and computers; they’re in wind turbines and hybrid cars. They’re in dental implants, X-ray machines, and life-saving cancer drugs. They have unusual magnetic and electrical properties that make our gadgets faster, stronger, and lighter. And we've all been coasting along enjoying their magic for a while now. In fact, we've come to expect magic. But magic comes at a cost, and in the case of mining and processing rare earths, that cost is environmental devastation. Most of us in the Western world aren’t aware of the destruction/ because most rare earths are mined elsewhere. But some scientists are trying to find a more environmentally sound way to get them. Credits Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Reporter: Rigoberto Hernandez Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Audio Engineer: James Morrison Music courtesy of the Audio Network, Blue Dot Sessions, and the Free Music Archive. Research Notes Abraham, David. Elements of Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.  The Californian Rare Earths Mine Caught between Trump and China. Bloomberg News, September 26, 2018.   “China-Japan Boat Crash Video Posted.” Al Jazeera, November 5, 2010.  “China Threatens to Cut Off Rare Earth Minerals as Trade War Escalates.” MSNBC, May 30, 2019.  “Colorado Experience: Uranium Mania.” Rocky Mountain PBS, November 2, 2017.  “Critical Materials Strategy.” U.S. Department of Energy, December 2010.   Desai, Pratima. “Tesla’s Electric Motor Shift to Spur Demand for Rare Earth Neodymium.”Reuters, March 12, 2018.  Gifford, Rob. “Yellow River Pollution Is Price of Economic Growth.” National Public Radio, All Things Considered, December 11, 2007.  Haxel, Gordon, Hedrick, James, Orris, Greta. “Rare Earth Elements—Critical Resources for High Technology.” U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 087-02, November 20, 2002.  Kalantzakos, Sophia. China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.  Kean, Sam. “Ytterby: The Tiny Swedish Island That Gave the Periodic Table Four Different Elements.” Slate, July 16, 2010.  Kim, Meeri. “Exposing the Trail of Devastation.” Sarah Lawrence College Magazine,” Fall 2018.  Klinger, Julie. Rare Earth Frontiers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.  Lovins, Amory. “Clean Energy and Rare Earths: Why Not to Worry.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 23, 2017. “Obama Denounces China on Rare Earth Elements.” AFP News Agency, March 13, 2012.  “PBS NewsHour; June 14, 2010 7:00 pm–8:00 pm EDT.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston and Washington, DC. Accessed June 24, 2019.  “Running from Rare Earth Metals.” Bloomberg, June 30, 2015.  Salomon, Charlotte Abney. “Finding Yttrium: Joan Gadolin and the Development of a ‘Discovery.’” CHF Brown Bag Lecture Series, March 10, 2015.  “Story of Color Television.” RCA, 1956.  Thomson, Gene. “Hot Canyon.” Ames Laboratory, June 18, 2012.  Turner, Roger. “Material Matters: The Past and Present of Rare Earth Elements Essential to Our Future.” Joseph Priestley Society Lecture, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, February 14, 2019. 

Peter Lovins, director of legal affairs for the Columbus Blue Jackets, talks about growing up as a gay Mormon in Alaska, the professional journey that took him across the country, what it means to be a lawyer for a professional sports team and why the Blue Jackets once had a mascot that looked like a penis.

Peter Lovins, director of legal affairs for the Columbus Blue Jackets, talks about growing up as a gay Mormon in Alaska, the professional journey that took him across the country, what it means to be a lawyer for a professional sports team and why the Blue Jackets once had a mascot that looked like a penis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brian Lovins, is an assistant director for the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department in Texas. The Harris County CSCD supervises roughly 50,000 individuals throughout the year making it the third largest probation department in the United States.  Dr. Lovins talks about the future of community corrections and furthers the conversation on the role of parole and probation agents play in offender success. He encourages agents to supervise as coaches and not referees and urges the corrections system to move towards a winning model.

Hunter Lovins On Our Finer Future Hunter Lovins, President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, believes that citizens, communities and companies, working together within the market context, are the most dynamic problem solving force on the planet. A champion of sustainable development for over 35 years, Lovins has consulted on business, economic development, sustainable agriculture, energy, water, security, and climate policies for scores of governments, communities, and companies worldwide. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and she has won the Rachel Carson and Right Livelihood awards, among dozens of others. Lovins has co‐authored fifteen books and hundreds of articles. Her best known book, Natural Capitalism, won the Shingo Prize. It has been translated into a more than three dozen languages and summarized in the Harvard Business Review. Bard MBA Director Eban Goodstein spoke with Lovins about her trailblazing work in sustainability and her latest book, A Finer Future, which was released in September. impactreportpodcast.com

Josh Radoff is a Senior Vice President at WSP. In today's episode, he joins Charlie Cichetti to share his sustainability journey, including growing a respected green building consulting firm that has since merged with a larger company. Josh also discusses some pretty advanced projects he is working on and gets us thinking about what's around the corner in this green building movement.   Josh Radoff - The Origin Story Boston-born, Josh came from the East Coast, moved to Connecticut when he was three, but eventually ended up in Colorado. He went to college in Maine. With his upbringing, Josh leaned more towards the Red Sox than the Yankees. Josh was a physics major at Colby College, a liberal arts school. Trying to get as much diverse experience as he could, he joined its soccer team. He was also into film, writing movie review columns, and even hosted a radio show with a co-host.   Career Start He liked physics but knew he wasn't going to stay at a lab so Josh became a high school teacher in Virginia, handling physics along with earth science. With a new-to-him environment in the South, he went through some adjustments on top of his daily preparations for the job. Convinced that he wasn't learned enough for his postition, Josh furthered his education by earning a Masters in Electrical Engineering. He didn't realize he nursed an interest in sustainability until he sat in a course on energy and found out that it was something he would like to sink his teeth into. “That may have been my first taste into what would be my eventual career.” - Josh Radoff   The Epiphany The real shift began when Amory Lovins came to speak at his college. Josh had never heard of Lovins, but sustainability had already wormed its way into his brain. After hearing the advocate's words, Josh decided that it was time for a change. “Amory Lovins has a certain way of introducing an idea and transforming the way people think about it. That was certainly true for me.” - Josh Radoff on the radical shift of his interest to sustainability To hear more of Josh's sustainability tale download and listen to the episode!   Learn more about Josh Radoff and the books we reference:   LinkedIn   The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes Master and Commander 1491 1493     Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!

Our ecosystems contribute tens of trillions of dollars to our economy every year, but – as L. Hunter Lovins notes, “At present we’re losing every major ecosystem on the planet…What are we doing to ourselves?...We have the…intelligence…to make different choices.” Hunter Lovins co-authored the best-selling book, Natural Capitalism, with Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins. In this interview, she outlines those choices and shares how they benefit businesses and the planet. One of the biggest challenges to living sustainably, says Lovins, is our belief we can meet non-material needs through the purchase of material things. “We keep spending all this money, and we aren’t getting any happier.” Wouldn’t you rather have more time than more stuff? She observes that we all have a profound hunger for authenticy, human connection, love. We recorded this interview in 2004, but offer it here because the concepts are as relevant today. Please visit zhttp://www.tinyurl.com/ceseason3 and let us know you want another season of Conversation Earth. Learn more about Hunter Lovins, find links to her work, and subscribe to get a weekly email announcing the next podcast - at http://www.conversationearth.org

Stan Lovins discusses Franklin Graham's visit to Indianapolis.

Hunter Lovins - Regenerative Economics (Starts 2:42) One of the world’s leading voices for the environment is urging the world to work for even more than a sustainable economy.  She says it’s time for a regenerative economy.  That’s the message from Boulder County resident, Hunter Lovins.  Lovins heads up Natural Capitalism Solutions, and she’s a sought after speaker around the world, as well as here in Colorado.  To give you an idea about what the vision of Lovins for a regenerative economy, here is an excerpt from a recent talk about the Future of Humanity.  This talk was recorded in Boulder as part of the Colorado Chautauqua Events series, in conjunction with the Boulder City Club. For the extended version of this talk, go here. Host: Kendra Krueger Producer: Shelley Schlender Engineer: Kendra Krueger Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Listen to the show:

August 26, 2014 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1rw15Ag. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Amory Lovins, a “recovering physicist” who founded and now leads the Rocky Mountain Institute, is the author of Reinventing Fire and a Forbes contributor who says that existing technology allows us to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent. For this article he provided a quick explanation of his ideas: The United States now wrings more than twice as much work from its energy as it did 40 years ago, yet most of the energy used today is still wasted. We can now save twice as much as I then claimed (to much ridicule), but at a third the real cost. With the best modern techniques, more efficiently converting energy into the same or better services can save, for example, about ⅔ to ¾ of the energy we use in buildings (with a 33% IRR), half in industry (21% IRR), and ≥4/5 in transportation (17% IRR)). “Integrative design”—optimizing buildings, factories and industrial equipment, and vehicles as whole systems for multiple benefits, not isolated components for single benefits—can often make big savings cost less than small or no savings, turning diminishing returns into expanding returns. Modern energy efficiency makes it easier and quicker to switch supplies from old, expensive technologies to newer, cheaper, safer, cleaner ones. RMI’s *Reinventing Fire* synthesis (2011, www.rmi.org/reinventingfire) showed how with a 14% IRR and a $5-trillion NPV saving, the United States could run a 2.6x bigger economy in 2050 with no oil, coal, or nuclear energy and ⅓ less natural gas. This would require no new inventions nor Acts of Congress, but could be led by business for profit.

D. E. Lovins, DO MPH shares about the new medical school being started by William Carey University.

According to our special guest Greg Lovins, communication is not always easy for business officers to do. As vice chancellor for business affairs at Appalachian State University, Greg and his team are responsible to ensure the institution is equipped with the information they need to collectively make smart decisions and keen investments. Ensuring buy-in and collaboration among key constituencies is a challenge for the very best communicators, but when the message is loaded with complexity and offers a high opportunity for jargon, clear communication becomes much more difficult. Greg will be joining Howard Teibel at the SACUBO Annual Meeting on April 13 for “Communicating Financial Information Effectively,” a pre-conference session from 12:30 to 1:20 on Sunday, April 13. This week on the show, Greg joins Howard and Pete Wright for an introduction to the interactive discussion they’ll be facilitating next week.

2013-05-05-0830 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this morning May 5th, 2013 in the 8:30 service after a special Concert and Testimony from the Jason Lovins Band.Scripture: N/ATopic: HopeNotes:

2013-05-05-1030 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this morning May 5th, 2013 in the 10:30 service after a special Concert and Testimony from the Jason Lovins Band.Scripture: N/ATopic: HopeNotes:

2013-04-27-1800 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this evening May 4th, 2013 in the 6:00 service after a special Concert and Testimony from the Jason Lovins Band.Scripture: N/ATopic: Hope Notes:

Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions, will make the business case for sustainability on Wednesday's Access Utah. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer, Lovins is a professor of sustainable business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Bard College, and Denver University. She gave the keynote address at the recent Intermountain Sustainability Summit in Ogden.

A leadership dialogue with Jack Sim, Founder of the World Toilet Organization (WTO) and BOP HUB, Singapore, Amory B. Lovins  the Chairman and Chief Scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, USA and Tom Cummings, Strategic Leadership Advisor and Founder of Leading Ventures, The Netherlands. This session was recorded, Saturday June 16, at the Tällberg Forum 2012.

On February 15, 2012, Amory Lovins, co-founder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent think-and-do-tank discussed his book Reinventing Fire, which maps business-led pathways for the U.S. to phase out fossil fuels and win the global clean energy race. Building on Rocky Mountain Institute’s 30 years of research and fieldwork, Lovins contends that by 2050 the U.S. economy could exist without oil, coal, nuclear energy – or any new inventions. An advisor to major firms and governments in over 50 countries for the past four decades, Amory Lovins is the recipient of the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 11 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers.

Episode Description: “For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret MeadThe 6th Annual AREDAY – American Renewable Energy Day – produced by long-time environmental activist and filmmaker Chip Comins -- is a uniquely innovative and interactive annual gathering of co-creative change in this time of Yes We Can, and Yes We Must. It will take place Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the beauty of summertime in the Rocky Mountains in Aspen, Colorado. This year’s focus is “The Problem IS the Solution: Wall Street Meets Green Street – Creating the New Energy Economy”, bringing together a truly amazing array of people.This gathering will present all of us in attendance with an extraordinary opportunity not just to share information on visionary perspectives and practical tools for change, but to directly experience and co-create one of most important global transformations of our times. Participants will include a number of the people I have dialogued with on this site, such as Lester Brown, Bracken Hendricks, Van Jones, Bob Gough of Intertribal COUP, and many more. See Living Dialogues Episodes 68 and 70.Details, list of other key participants you will appreciate, and registration information available at www.areday.net. At last year’s AREDAY, Ted Turner was asked what he told the Board after he resigned from Time Warner in the wake of the AOL fiasco. He replied: “I just told them to stop doing the dumb things, and start doing the smart things.”To get a sense of how profound this simple message is if our public and private powers would only apply this advice, why they don’t, and why it really is true that the ball is in our court as citizens to show the way, that only “if the people will lead, the leaders will follow”, consider the following statements from one of this year’s AREDAY keynote speakers, Amory Lovins (then a 29 year old physicist), made thirty-three years ago, in his seminal article in Foreign Affairs magazine entitled “Energy Strategy – The Road Not Taken?”:At a time before Al Gore was even in Congress, Lovins noted: “The commitment (of U.S. policy) to a long-term coal economy many times the scale of today’s makes the doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration early in the next century virtually unavoidable, with the prospect then or soon thereafter of substantial and perhaps irreversible changes in global climate.” He dubbed this “the hard path.”The alternative, which Lovins called “the soft path,” favored “benign” sources of renewable power like wind and the sun, along with a heightened commitment to meeting energy demands through conservation and efficiency. Such a heterodox blend of clean technologies, Lovins argued, would bring a host of salutary effects: a healthier environment, an end to our dependence on Middle East oil, a diminished likelihood of future wars over energy, and the foundation of a vibrant new economy.”[The preceding two paragraphs are from the summary by Joshua Green in his article “Better Luck This Time”, reviewing the history of U.S. policy persisting in “doing the dumb things” all this time, in the July-August issue of The Atlantic magazine.]In my view, the U.S. is weighted down with the collective albatross in this Second Gilded Age of greed by highly centralized corporate systems beyond the control of our public government, including the U.S. financial system, fossil fuel energy and utility system, and health care system, among others – disconnected from any meaningful innovation and the public good. We will be exploring these aspects – and how they relate to the evolutionary imperative of consciousness transformation -- in future dialogues, including the upcoming next dialogues with Jeffrey Hopkins, the translator the Dalai Lama’s new book “Becoming Enlightened” (No. 100), Gillian Tett of the Financial Times of London on “Fool’s Gold” the creation by ambitious, self-centered Wall Street “high fliers” of the global economic catastrophe (Nos. 101 and 102), and David Korten on an “Agenda for a New Economy” (Nos. 103 and 104), followed by Judith Orloff on “Emotional Freedom”, and more to come.In the meantime, we invite you and look forward to seeing you at AREDAY on Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the natural beauty of Aspen, Colorado. As a listener to Living Dialogues, you can still receive an early bird discount by emailing Chip Comins directly at ccomins@rof.net. And if you cannot physically put yourself in Aspen Colorado for AREDAY, you’re very much invited to continue participating through your deep listening to not only this dialogue (and those related Living Dialogues listed above and below), but to our continuing Living Dialogues after that. And also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater celebration our own common humanity and our personal ability to shape our collective destiny in very real ways. “We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 As we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livihngdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Lester Brown, David Boren, Jav Inslee, Bracken Hendricks, Bob Gough, Van Jones, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, David Mendell, Michael Dowd, and Barbara Marx Hubbard among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.

Aired 12/16/08 After 3.8 billion years of R&D, failures are fossils. The conscious emulation of life's genius is a sustainable survival strategy for the human race. Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this "innovation inspired by nature." The core idea is that nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts here on Earth. We are learning how to grow food like a prairie, build ceramics like an abalone, create color like a peacock, self-medicate like a chimp, compute like a cell, and run a business like a hickory forest. Learn more at www.biomimicryinstitute.org and www.asknature.org Janine Benyus' luscious 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature is unique and profound. In the book, she not only invents a new field that she has named biomimicry, but she inverts the way we all think about design - the alchemy that turns intention into action. Benyus draws her design inspiration from nature's wisdom, not people's cleverness. Some 3.8 billion years of evolution have exposed the design flaws of roughly 99% of nature's creations - all recalled by the Manufacturer. The 1% that have survived can teach powerful lessons about how things should be built if they're to last. For example, nature's design genius has led to the creation of bat-inspired ultrasonic canes for the blind, synthetic sheets that collect water from mist and fog as desert beetles do, and paint that self-cleans like a lotus leaf. Little plastic-film patches have been designed using adhesiveless gecko-foot technology, so that carpet tiles can be stored in a big roll, but also easily removed. Equally promising, we'll soon make solar cells like leaves, supertough ceramics that resemble the inner shells of abalone, and underwater glue that mimics the natural as forests. Biomimicry isn't biotechnology. Biomimicry learns and emulates how spiders make silk; biotechnology transplants spiders' silk-making genes into goats, then sorts silk from milk and hopes the genes don't get loose. Biotechnology is smart kids in an oil depot with matches; biomimicry is wise adults in a rain forest with flashlights. Biotechnology is pure hubris; biomimicry is luminous humility - treating nature as model and mentor, cherished not as a mine to be stripped of its resources but as a teacher. Steering this design revolution is a centered, gentle, funny, lovely lady who lives in North America's Montana Rockies, observes deeply, writes with rare beauty, and lectures breathtakingly. By reorganizing the biological literature around function not organism - to reveal which organism knows how to solve your design problem - Benyus and her colleagues at the Biomimicry Guild and Biomimicry Institute in Montana are starting to help the world of the made work like, and live harmoniously with, the world of the born. This will change your life. And it may save the world. -- Amory B. Lovins, chairman and chief scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute

From Sustainable Business to Sustainable Capitalism Seminar 1: The Big Picture Featuring Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author of the acclaimed Natural Capitalism. NCS educates business, government and civil society leaders to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In 1982 Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, an internationally recognized research center well known for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. Lovins has consulted for dozens of industries and governments worldwide, including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar, Wal-Mart, Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and Afghanistan. Moderator: George T. Scharffenberger, Executive Director of Blum Center for Developing Economies Seminar details: Can capitalism as a system be truly sustainable and just? From global climate change and resource depletion to widening inequality and social unrest, current economic and political models are proving unsustainable. Yet businesses, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and governments are collaborating like never before to address these problems. Can these solutions scale? This interdisciplinary seminar series will examine the changes necessary within the free market system — including law and public policy, consumer behavior, science and technology, the design of products and cities, and faith — for a fundamental shift towards a truly sustainable future. Presented by the Berkeley Net Impact Club, Sustainable Products and Solutions Program and the Blum Center for Developing Economies.  

From Sustainable Business to Sustainable Capitalism Seminar 1: The Big Picture Featuring Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capital Solutions and co-author of the acclaimed Natural Capitalism. NCS educates business, government and civil society leaders to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In 1982 Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, an internationally recognized research center well known for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. Lovins has consulted for dozens of industries and governments worldwide, including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar, Wal-Mart, Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and Afghanistan. Moderator: George T. Scharffenberger, Executive Director of Blum Center for Developing Economies Seminar details: Can capitalism as a system be truly sustainable and just? From global climate change and resource depletion to widening inequality and social unrest, current economic and political models are proving unsustainable. Yet businesses, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and governments are collaborating like never before to address these problems. Can these solutions scale? This interdisciplinary seminar series will examine the changes necessary within the free market system — including law and public policy, consumer behavior, science and technology, the design of products and cities, and faith — for a fundamental shift towards a truly sustainable future. Presented by the Berkeley Net Impact Club, Sustainable Products and Solutions Program and the Blum Center for Developing Economies.  

Better design integration and materials innovation can lead to big energy and cost savings, and rapid return on investment, particularly in the automotive and housing industries. Amory Lovins, one of America's most influential energy speakers, offers some profitable business-led solutions to climate, oil, and nuclear proliferation problems in this Stanford Center for Social Innovation sponsored audio lecture. Lovins offers strategies to reduce US oil dependence through a menu of renewable and fossil fuel types. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/amory_lovins_-_business_solutions_to_climate_change

A listener from Flagstaff, Ariz. wants to know what fate awaits his town in the post oil future. The verdict from Jim? At least it's not Phoenix, but most of Flagstaff looks like the service road around Newark Airport. The caller also asks about the new Honda hydrogen fuel cell car, which reminds Jim to bash so-called environmentalist Amory Lovins' fantasy to keep the motoring scene going at all costs. (Info about program and theme music at KunstlerCast.com) Direct Download (7 MB): KunstlerCast_07.mp3

(March 28, 2007) Mr. Lovins’ lectures offer Stanford students and the community a rare opportunity to learn first-hand how compellingly attractive and easy energy efficiency is, focusing on the demand and use side.

Mr. Lovins’ lectures offer Stanford students and the community a rare opportunity to learn first-hand how compellingly attractive and easy energy efficiency is, focusing on the demand and use side. (March 26, 2007)

Mr. Lovins’ lectures offer Stanford students and the community a rare opportunity to learn first-hand how compellingly attractive and easy energy efficiency is, focusing on the demand and use side. (March 29, 2007)

Mr. Lovins’ lectures offer Stanford students and the community a rare opportunity to learn first-hand how compellingly attractive and easy energy efficiency is, focusing on the demand and use side. (March 30, 2007)

Mr. Lovins’ lectures offer Stanford students and the community a rare opportunity to learn first-hand how compellingly attractive and easy energy efficiency is, focusing on the demand and use side. (March 27, 2007)

Oil dependence is an unnecessary problem, argues Amory Lovins, an internationally recognized expert in energy policy. In this audio lecture, Lovins demonstrates how, by the mid 2040s, the United States could reduce its need for oil completely and strengthen its economy in the process. Addressing the 2005 Stanford Net Impact conference audience, he talks about the fundamental shifts that the American society needs to undergo to make this scenario a reality. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/amory_lovins_-_eliminating_u.s._oil_dependence

Talking with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute argues that the United States can operate on a fourth of the energy it now uses, while still providing the same or better services. This may seem far-fetched, but Lovins has been accused of taking off on flights of fancy before, though time has a remarkable way of proving his assertions correct. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/amory_lovins_-_hero_for_the_planet