Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-26 Thread rfriedmann
OTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 9:21 pm Subject: Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI I think that -- as Bram and others had noted earlier, and as the piece by amien White that I recommended on this list argues --

Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread John M. Meyer
> > To: Ronnie Lipschutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Bram Büscher'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Matthew Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; willett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Global Environmental Educ

Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread rfriedmann
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Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread Simon Dalby
gt; >deployed remains, as an intrinsic element of > >policy design, unclear and uncertain. The > >market will apparently reveal them in the > >fullness of time. The UC LCFS report, including > >a technical volume and a policy analysis volume, > >is available for download f

RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread Ronnie Lipschutz
n Behalf Of Bram Büscher Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:29 AM To: Matthew Paterson; willett Cc: Global Environmental Education Subject: RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI Thanks for this clarification Matthew. Perhaps I was too quick in my assertion, but why I felt especially uncomfortable w

RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bram Büscher Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:29 AM To: Matthew Paterson; willett Cc: Global Environmental Education Subject: RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI Thanks for this clarification Matthew. Perhaps I was too quick in my assertion, but why I

RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-25 Thread Bram Büscher
Title: RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI Thanks for this clarification Matthew. Perhaps I was too quick in my assertion, but why I felt especially uncomfortable with the way in which Lovins presented (as such interesting) technological innovations, was that it actually obfuscates wider

Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-24 Thread Matthew Paterson
371 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/pol/eng/index.asp From: willett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:39:59 -0500 To: Bram Büscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Global Environmental Education Subject: Re: Critique on Amory Lovins /

Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-24 Thread willett
Two decades ago, Denton Morrison published a couple of aritlces in the sociological literatuares laying out all of Lovin's social science assertions found in earlier books. He wasn't really critical but it was clear that even the earlier work had huge numbers of unproven assertions about s

Re: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-24 Thread John M. Meyer
John Meyer > Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI > Dear All, > > I was at the Berlin conference of the Human Dimensions of Global Change > yesterday and attended a (video conference) presentation by dr. Amory > Lovins of the Rocky Mountain institute. I have seen few people so bluntl

Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI

2008-02-24 Thread Bram Büscher
Title: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI Dear All, I was at the Berlin conference of the Human Dimensions of Global Change yesterday and attended a (video conference) presentation by dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain institute. I have seen few people so bluntly reduce all environmental