Brittle Power- PARTS 1-3 (+Notes) - Natural Capitalism Solutions

AcknowledgementsThe official study which gave rise to this book was suggested and commissionedby Mr. Bardyl Tirana, then Director of the Defense Civil PreparednessAgency, and carried out under the auspices of that Agency’s successor, theFederal Emergency Management Agency, through the vehicle of the President’sCouncil on Environmental Quality. Mr. Tirana’s and our belief that the subjectdeserved such an examination in depth grew out of a seminar which he and Dr.Frank Kapper kindly arranged for Mr. Lovins to give for Armed Forces energydirectors and others in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and another seminarset up by Dr. Robert Hayes at the National Defense University.Throughout the contract we received valuable help and guidance from ourProject Managers, Mr. George Divine of FEMA and Dr. John Davidson ofCEQ, and administrative aid from our colleagues Jeffrey Knight, Esq. ofFriends of the Earth (the contracting organization) and Mr. Jim Harding of theInternational Project for Soft Energy Paths, a project of Friends of the EarthFoundation.For the content of this book we are alone responsible, but we owe an intellectualdebt to many vicarious contributors. We thank especially: Dr. Jan Beyea(formerly at Princeton University and now with the National AudubonSociety); Captain Howard Bucknell III (USN Ret.) and his colleagues at theEnergy and Security Project at The Mershon Center of The Ohio StateUniversity; Dr. William Clark of the Institute for Energy Analysis at OakRidge, for incisive comments and papers on biological resilience; Mr. WilsonClark, whose independent but parallel work helped bring energy vulnerabilityto public attention; Dr. Paul Craig of the University of California; Mr. F.R.Farmer and his colleagues in the nuclear industry who generously shared theirinsights into the principles of resilient design; Dr. Karl Gawell and Mr. BruceGreen of the Solar Energy Research Institute; Ms. Tina Hobson of the U.S.Department of Energy; Professor C.S. Holling of the University of Britishxi