His work focuses on transforming the car, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor and several other sectors of the economy toward advanced resource productivity. He has promoted energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy sources, and the generation of energy at or near the site where the energy is used.

Amory Lovins co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute with Hunter Lovins in 1982. RMI has grown into a broad-based “think-and-do tank” with more than 600 staff and an annual budget over USD 120 million.

Amory Lovins has received the MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz and Lindbergh Awards, and World Technology Award. He is also the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (“alternative Nobel Prize”) and the Delphi Prize, Onassis Foundation.

He received the 1994 regional Award of Distinction from the American Institute of Architects, its highest award for non-architects, and the 2000 Happold Medal of the Construction Industry Council (UK). His books include Reinventing Fire (2011), Winning the Oil Endgame (2005), Small is Profitable (2003), and Natural Capitalism (2000).

Amory Lovins studied physics at Harvard University and the University of Oxford and received an MA (by virtue of being a don) and nine honorary doctorates. Amory Lovins was named by Time magazine one of the World’s 100 most influential people in 2009.