The Essential Amory Lovins : Selected Writings (Hardcover)

Part1: Into The Wildness: Mountain Climbing, Wales, and Fighting a Copper Mine 1. New England Wanderer, 1969 (excerpt from the journal Oxford Mountaineering) 2. Longing, 1971 (excerpt from Eryri: The Mountains of Longing) 3. To a Poet Met in Cwm Dyli, 1971 (unpublished poem) Part2: Resources and Energy: Efficiency, Analysis, Policy, Potential 4. Only One Earth, 1972 (excerpt from Only One Earth) 5. Long-Term Constraints on Human Activity, 1976 (from Environmental Conservation) 6. Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?, 1976 (from Foreign Affairs) 7. Cost-Risk-Benefit Assessments in Energy Policy, 1977 (from George Washington Law Review) 8. Energy End-Use Efficiency, 2005 (paper commissioned by the InterAcademy Council in Amsterdam) Part3: Nuclear Power: Fission and Confusion 9. Clean Energy or a Choice of Poisons?, 1972 (letter published in the N.Y. Times) 10. Why Nuclear Safety Is Unattainable, 1973 (letter published in the N.Y. Times) 11. Out of the Frying-pan into the PWR, 1978 (from Nature) 12. Nuclear Follies, 1985 (unpublished letter to Forbes in response to James Cook's article of the same name) 13. Mighty Mice, 2005 (from Nuclear Engineering International) 14. Nuclear Socialism, 2010 (from The Weekly Standard) Part 4: Vehicles and Oil: Goodbye Crude World 15. Energy: The Avoidable Oil Crisis, 1987 (from Atlantic Monthly) 16. Reinventing the Wheels, 1995 (from Atlantic Monthly) 17. Drilling in All the Wrong Places, 2008 (from RMI Solutions Journal) Part5: De Architectura: Building Better, Building Smarter 18. Air Conditioning Comfort: Behavioral And Cultural Issues, 1992 (paper prepared for ESOURCE) 19. The Super-Efficient Passive Building Frontier, 1995 (from ASHRAE Journal) 20. Foreword to Sustainable Design Guide of the Japan Institute of Architects, 1996 Part6: Energy Security and the Military: Blood and Treasure (and Opportunities) 21. The Fragility of Domestic Energy 1983 (from Atlantic Monthly) 22. Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security, 2002 (from Whole Earth Review) 23. Towering Design Flaws, 2003 (from the Globe and Mail) 24. How Innovative Technologies, Business Strategies, and Policies Can Help the U.S. Achieve Energy Security and Prosperity, 2006 (testimony prepared for the U.s. Senate, 2006) 25. DOD's Energy Challenge as Strategic Opportunity, 2010 (from Joint Force Quarterly) 26. On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern, 2010 (from Foreign Policy) Part 7: Business and Climate: Making Sense, Making Cash, Making Good 27. A Roadmap for Natural Capitalism, 1999 (from Harvard Business Review) 28. Climate: Making Sense and Making Money (pp. 11-20), 1997 (RMI white paper) Part8: Miscellany: Letters, a Poem, and a Socratic Dialogue 29. Vaguely We Walk, 1962 (unpublished poem) 30. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution a Red Herring, 1964 (unpublished letter) 31. Dialogue on Models in Physics, 1970 (unpublished Socratic dialogue) 32. Definition of British Nationality (letter to The Times (London)) 33. A Tale of Two Botanies, 1999 (from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)34. Imagine a World, 2007 (based on a keynote address by Amory Lovins celebrating RMI's 25th anniversary) 35. Remarks on Acceptance of the Blue Planet Prize, 2007 (description TK) 36. Applied Hope, 2008 (essay published by RMI)