Author Bio
Hunter and Amory Lovins have worked as a team since 1979 on a wide range of issues linking energy and other resources, the environment, development, and security. Their research has laid the foundations for many new disciplines and enterprises, including the "negawatt" industry (now a $5-billion-a-year business just in the U.S). They founded Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982.
L. Hunter Lovins, RMI's President and Executive Director, holds BAs in political science and sociology from Pitzer College, a JD from Loyola University School of Law, and an honorary LHD. A member of the California Bar, she cofounded and for six years served as Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), a noted urban forestry and environmental education group. She has consulted and lectured extensively, served with Mr. Lovins as Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, published numerous papers, and coauthored nine books and numerous papers.
Amory B. Lovins, the Institute's Vice President, CFO, and Director of Research, is formerly a consultant experimental physicist. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he received an Oxford MA by virtue of being a don, and later six U.S. honorary doctorates. A MacArthur Fellow, he has held a variety of visiting academic chairs, briefed nine heads of state, published 24 books and several hundred papers, lectured and broadcast widely, and served on the U.S. Department of Energy's senior advisory board. The Wall Street Journal's Centennial Issue named him among 28 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s.
Together the Lovinses have consulted for scores of utilities, industries, and governments worldwide. Their work has been featured in many leading print and broadcast media, including "60 Minutes", "The Today Show", CNN, and "The 700 Club." They shared a 1982 Mitchell Prize and a 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the "alternative Nobel Prize"). In 1989 their "essential contribution towards finding alternative solutions to energy problems" was recognized by the Onassis Foundation's first Delphi Prize, one of the world's top environmental awards. In 1993 their paper on Hypercars received the Nissan Prize at ISATA, the top European car-technology conference.