IF ANYBODY should be on top of the world today, it is Amory Lovins. That is not just because the energy visionary makes his home on a mountain in Old Snowmass, Colorado. Rather, it is because today’s interrelated energy and climate difficulties have at last made the world see the importance of resource efficiency, energy innovation and holistic design—principles that he has been advocating for nearly four decades.

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999219

He’s the smartest man in the world, and people are beginning to be worried enough to pay heed.