[Env seminars] Energy Colloquium features Amory Lovins on February 27, 2006

[Marie Tangney]

MIT's Energy Research Council initiated a series of energy colloquia 
that is of interest to faculty, staff and students across the campus. 
MIT President Susan Hockfield and former Provost Robert Brown 
appointed the Energy Research Council "to lead the planning for the 
initiative in energy-related research and education--including 
developing a picture of the current state of MIT energy-related 
research and expertise; developing a list of promising science and 
engineering research areas that match global needs and MIT 
capabilities; and recommending an organizational structure that would 
facilitate work in these areas."  (Tech Talk, June 8, 2005)  The 
third colloquium will be presented by Amory Lovins, Founder and CEO 
of Rocky Mountain Institute, on February 27, 2006 in Wong Auditorium, 
E51, Tang Center at MIT. The flyer is attached.  Everyone is welcome!


		ENERGY COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT

Title:		"Winning the Oil Endgame"

Speaker:		Amory Lovins, Founder and CEO of Rocky 
Mountain Institute

Date:		February 27, 2006

Time:		4:00 PM

Place:		Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, E51
		Corner of Ames and Wadsworth Streets at MIT

Sponsor:		Energy Research Council and LFEE

Reception:		Ting Foyer immediately following the colloquium

Abstract:
By the 2040s, the United States can eliminate its use of oil and 
revitalize its economy, let by business for profit. Existing 
technologies can redouble the efficiency of using oil (including 
tripling the efficiency of uncompromised cars, trucks, and planes) at 
an average cost of $12/bbl, and can replace remaining oil use with 
advanced biofuels and saved natural gas. These innovations don't 
require fuel taxes, subsidies, mandates, or new Federal laws, but can 
be driven by competitive strategy for the car, truck, plane, and fuel 
industry and by military requirements.

Bio:
Amory Lovins co-founded and leads the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), 
an independent, market-oriented, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, 
nonpartisan applied research center that creates abundance by design. 
Much of its pathfinding work on advanced resource productivity 
(typically with expanding returns to investment) and innovative 
business strategies is synthesized in Natural Capitalism. RMI has 
served more than 80 Fortune 500 firms, lately redesigning upwards of 
$20 billion worth of facilities spanning 22 sectors.  RMI spun off E 
Source in 1992 and Fiberforge, Inc., a composites engineering firm, 
in 1999.  His 28th book, Small is Profitable, an Economist book of 
the year, was published in 2002, and his Pentagon-cosponsored 29th 
book, Winning the Oil Endgame, in 2004.

Amory Lovins has been named a MacArthur Fellow and has been 
recognized by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and 
Mitchell Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine 
honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the 
Planet, and World Technology Awards. He has advised the U.S. 
Departments of Energy and of Defense and industries and governments 
in more than fifty countries.

-- 
Marie Tangney
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room E40-455
Cambridge, MA 02139
U. S. A.

Phone:	(617)258-8891
Fax: 	(617)253-8013
email:	mtangney at mit.edu
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