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Amory Lovins (V2)

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Do you know who Amory Lovins is? Nobody. Amory Lovins is an unusual character. He is something of polymath. Just say, he has varied (sort of) knowledge across a wide range of fields. He's not an academic. He actually has a consulting company which he runs until recently out of his home in Colorado. He lives beside Snowmass in a house built into the side of a mountain that has no furnace. For about 30 years, he has been kind of iconic plastic oddball genius, thinking of ways to save energy, thinking of ways to solve problems using technology that already exist. And he has demonstrated several of them. He also offers he is something that he is such an oddball that people tend to think he is kind of crazy. Anyway, Elizabeth Kolbert went to spend some time with Amory Lovins. And so, she has written this piece called Mr. Green.

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Do you know who Amory Lovins is? Nobody. Amory Lovins is an unusual character. He is something of polymath. Just say, he has varied (sort of) knowledge across a wide range of fields. He's not an academic. He actually has a consulting company which he runs until recently out of his home in Colorado. He lives beside Snowmass in a house built into the side of a mountain that has no furnace. For about 30 years, he has been kind of iconic plastic oddball genius, thinking of ways to save energy, thinking of ways to solve problems using technology that already exist. And he has demonstrated several of them. He also offers he is something that he is such an oddball that people tend to think he is kind of crazy. Anyway, Elizabeth Kolbert went to spend some time with Amory Lovins. And so, she has written this piece called Mr. Green.
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