[Env seminars] Reminder: ERC's Energy Colloquium features Amory Lovins today at 4pm

[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, TODAY, February 27, 2006 in Wong 
Auditorium, 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, E51, Tang Center
	Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets at MIT

Sponsors:	Energy Research Council,  Lab for Energy and the Environment

Reception:	Ting Foyer immediately following the colloquium

Abstract:
By the 2040s, the United States can eliminate its use of oil and 
revitalize its economy, led 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 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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