2008 colloquium on the environment
Amory Lovins Scheduled Keynote Speaker for 2008 Colloquium on the Environment
Amory B. Lovins will
be the keynote speaker for the 2008 Colloquium on the Environment, which will be held on April
29, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Auditorium on the University Park Campus. The title of
his talk is "Whole System Thinking and Radical Energy Efficiency."
This year's event is also supported by the Center for Sustainability and Penn State Outreach.
Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), nine honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood ("Alternative Nobel"), World Technology, and Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes, and honorary membership of the American Institute of Architects.
He has lately led the redesign of $30 billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors for radical energy and resource efficiency. He has briefed nineteen heads of state, held several visiting academic chairs (most recently the 2007 MAP/Ming Professorship at Stanford), written twenty-nine books (including Natural Capitalism <www.natcap.org> and his Pentagon-cosponsored 29th book Winning the Oil Endgame <www.oilendgame.com>)and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide.
The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of thirty-nine people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers"; and Car magazine ranked him the twenty-second most powerful person in the global automotive industry.