RMI Gets Nod in New Clinton Book

RMI got some recognition from former President Bill Clinton in his latest book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World. The 256-page book, published by Knopf in September, is about how individuals can have a huge impact in the world by making the right decisions and supporting the right causes. It includes four pages about RMI and its cofounder Amory Lovins.

"I first met [Amory] Lovins in January 1977, when as the new attorney general of Arkansas, I asked him to give testimony before our Public Service Commission in opposition to the construction of a large nuclear power plant that would require a substantial increase in consumer utility bills," Clinton writes.

"…Our arguments were treated with curiosity and almost total disbelief. I was only thirty years old, and Amory was a year or so younger. I still had the long hair I'd worn as a law professor, and he looked like a colleague on the science faculty with his thick mustache, unruly hair, and old-fashioned eyeglass, all three of which he still sports. The conventional, commonsense crowd thought we were both nuts, but I knew he made a lot of sense and understood the details of how energy could be used and consumed better than those who dismissed us…. We lost the battle — Amory has lost a lot of them over the years — but finally he may be winning the war for a clean, progressive energy future."

For more information, see http://giving.clintonfoundation.org.