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Lovins, Clinton said, got RMI to help green up the White House and now Bill is trying to take that on the road with his foundation, helping 40 cities on five continents—including Philly and New Orleans in the United States—do energy retrofits on their replica Omega 2901.50.37 watch biggest buildings. “I feel sorta like I felt when I got into the business of distributing AIDS medicine,” he said. “We doubled the number of kids getting AIDS medicines, but I tell people, ‘Don’t clap.’ There are 500,000 kids with AIDS; we doubled the number getting medicine from 10,000 to 20,000.” So then he told the RMI audience—a 350-person ballroom full of liberal whities—

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committed to being in the solutions business not the complaints business, and doing it in a way that creates good economics.”Clinton and Lovins, it turns out, go back to Oxford University in the 1970s. Lovins recalled getting a call from Clinton at the White House. “Amory,” he said, “I’m gonna give a speech on climate replica Omega 4617.11.02 watch change in two days. “What should it be?” Clinton became the first head of state, he reminded us, to articulate Amory’s vision and he quickly started tossing stats around— climate, economics, business, profits, etc—like he had founded RMI himself.

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