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 LovinsIf 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 LovinsNature 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 LovinsWe've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
Amory LovinsA package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energyโฆwith a simple payback under 16 months.
Amory LovinsIn 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