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Amory Lovins Quotes

I’m a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don’t feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example Picture Quote #1

Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage Picture Quote #1

If you ask me, it’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it Picture Quote #1

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously Picture Quote #1

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities Picture Quote #1

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants’ intermittence Picture Quote #1

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What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing? Picture Quote #1

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion Picture Quote #1

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions Picture Quote #1

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer! Picture Quote #1

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities Picture Quote #1

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs Picture Quote #1

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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable Picture Quote #1

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion Picture Quote #1

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system Picture Quote #1

I’m a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don’t feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example Picture Quote #1

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don’t pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies Picture Quote #1

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now Picture Quote #1

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Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital Picture Quote #1

Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them Picture Quote #1

If you ask me, it’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it Picture Quote #1

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I’m a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don’t feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example. (Amory Lovins Quotes) Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage. (Amory Lovins Quotes) If you ask me, it’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. (Amory Lovins Quotes) The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. (Amory Lovins Quotes) Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities. (Amory Lovins Quotes) Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants’ intermittence (Amory Lovins Quotes) What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing? (Amory Lovins Quotes) The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion (Amory Lovins Quotes) Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions (Amory Lovins Quotes) Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer! (Amory Lovins Quotes) Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities (Amory Lovins Quotes) By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs (Amory Lovins Quotes) Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable (Amory Lovins Quotes) Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion (Amory Lovins Quotes) I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system (Amory Lovins Quotes) I’m a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don’t feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example (Amory Lovins Quotes) In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don’t pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies (Amory Lovins Quotes) I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now (Amory Lovins Quotes) Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital (Amory Lovins Quotes) Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them (Amory Lovins Quotes) If you ask me, it’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it (Amory Lovins Quotes)