It was all so easy back then. Good guys and bad guys. Our spy versus their spy. The hyperlinked global economy muddles the old categories. Our next CIA director must have the Net in his blood and the world on his browser.
Most people think about energy only when gas prices spike or when heating oil is in short supply.
Amory B. Lovins has been thinking about energy throughout his entire career. Two decades ago, Lovins cofounded the Rocky Mountain Institute, an influential, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit energy think tank in Snowmass, Colorado. He'd be a perfect fit. Maybe he'd even save Social Security by taking the SBA public. The only things in his cabinet today are canned goods.