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  • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 12:24 PM
Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia and Ramón,
Pati and I were saddened by Lee’s departure, but our memories are full of the moments we lived together — some of them off-the-ordinary but all of them positive. We’ll never forget the Christmas he spent at our home, where he amazed us with his knowledge of classical music.
Lee was an unusual person, full of intellectual energy, combining  analytical rigor with a great sense of humor.  Many colleagues who consulted him on transport or environmental issues told me that they were impressed about his quick and thoughtful responses.  To me he was a person who knew how to think outside the box and at the same time be kind to other people.  It was a privilege to know such an outstanding man.
We’ll always remember him.

 

Gerhard Menckhoff

  • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 11:43 AM

    I loved your chaos
    I loved your energy

    By calendar twice as old
    You had no less energy, youth and life in you than I
    And no less chaos either

    Once we spent a week
    In my hometown
    What a great week it was
    Talking to the City Mayor and other local guys
    About the local transport strategy
    And ways to reduce emissions
    They all loved you

    We spent evenings and nights
    Talking
    About life, the universe and everything
    I loved every moment

    I wish I could say that I did not refuse any of your invites
    I did
    Once
    And I am left with regret
    For loosing out on another great few days with you

    But I am also left with vivid memories
    Of Leon the great
    Of Lee the comedian
    Creating sparkles of life in conferences and events
    With energizing music
    With inspiring speeches
    Coming up with those great thoughts and ideas
    Challenging
    Provoking
    Creating chaos on a huge empty stage
    And than just getting on to whatever needed to be dealt with next

    To be able to keep you focused
    On talking to me
    Whether for minutes or for days
    Was an honour

    I love you
    We all loved you

    It hurts to know that
    I will no longer be distracted from work
    By Mr.Meter popping up with a ‘hello’ on skype
    And me dropping whatever I was doing
    As I knew I’d better focus here
    To keep this guy’s attention
    And to get a dose of brilliant thoughts and ideas

    You will no longer be a partner in crime
    In finding unorthodox ways for dealing with shortage of time
    Like smuggling takeaway food into posh concerts
    Or preparing the speech while on stage already

    You will not come over to listen to Wagner in Germany
    And Chopin in Warsaw or Milan
    And I will not join in with my violin to play music with you

    So, although deep down I know you made it to a better place
    The world feels now to be an impoverished place indeed
    Lee, as always full of contradictions

    A man of integrity
    A friend of chaos
    A humble mind
    A genius

    We shall not let you die
    You will live in our hearts and memories

    Yours
    Sylwia
    Sylwia Klatka

  • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 6:02 AM

    A great man has left us. A good friend, a great teacher of many in the global transport/energy/environment community, somebody who connected people, and ideas. I recall his invitations that I was unable to refuse, Hanoi, Washington, Kaunas, Brussels. I will miss him, cherish my memories. They will continue to inspire me. No more Belgian beers together. We are all dreaming of making the world a better place. Lee, you actually succeeded in doing this. Farewell, rest in peace.

     

    Marcel Rommerts

  • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 9:45 AM

     

    Lee will simply be unforgettable. A deep loss for the environment community. Fernando Tudela

     

    Fernando Tudela

  • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 4:36 AM

     

    I came to know of Lee being no more from the WRI webpage. I had met Lee in Hanoi, Pune and Bangalore. What a great person he was! How pleasant are the memories of discussing with him about environmental and transportation  issues! I did not know that he studied astro-physics. I will remmebr him for ever.

    I know he had many many friends and admirers in India. We convey our condolences to the family and pray for their future strength and welfare. May God bless Lee’s sole in the heavenly abode.

    Upendra Tripathy

     

     

    Upendra Tripathy

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 10:57 PM

     

    I and members of my staff used to meet regularly with Lee and his Lawrence Berkely Lab colleagues when they visited to discuss latest research on energy matters.  Lee was always a font of new ideas and offered different ways of looking at otherwise conventional issues.  His enthousiasm and good humor was infectious.  He made an indelible impression on all of us.

     

     

    Ronald Gold

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 5:27 PM

     

    In honor of Lee Schipper – he was not only a visionary but also motivator and expert how to bringing people together with a great sense of friendship. I and We miss him.

    Jose Vieira Lima former Mercedes Benz Mexico CEO

     

     

    jose vieira lima

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 4:26 PM

     

    I was surprised and deeply saddened to hear of Lee’s passing. While I did not see him as often as I would have liked, our connection went back over 30 years and extended from New York, to Paris, Dallas, Washington etc.  I have many fond recollections of dinners and discussions on energy conservation, fuel switching, price responsiveness and the whole range of topics of mutual interest.

    Lee made many valuable contributions to our industry and the enthusiasm, curiosity and insights he brought to his work will be sorely missed.

     

    Mark Schwartz

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 11:53 AM

     

     

    I am very sad to hear from Lee’s passing away. My deepest condolences to Lee’s family. I still remember very well our pleasant joint dinner in the Japanese mountains.

     

    We will miss him. But the spirit of Mr. Meter will continue to guide us in our research and policy advice on sustainable transport.

     

     

    Wolfgang Schade

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011 5:16 AM

     

    I have known and admired Lee for many many years.

    It was such a joy to work with him at the IEA. I do believe he is one of the most original and creative thinkers in the energy field.

    Dear Lee, dear friend, sit tibi terra levis.

     

     

     

    Alessandro Lanza

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011 7:06 PM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    I wanted to express my deepest sympathies to you for the loss of your beloved husband and father. I learned about this very sad news while I was traveling in Germany, a place that Lee appreciated a lot, as far as I can tell. Now I am getting back to campus and I am being reminded of Lee even more and how much I miss him. We still wanted to do so many things together and while it will never be the same, we will try to continue research and education in sustainable transportation in memory of Lee Schipper, a true champion in that field.
    I want you to know that I am thinking a lot about you. May you have all the strength and energy at this time that came much too soon and much too sudden.
    Sincerely,
    Sven

     

    Sven Beiker

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011 6:10 AM

     

    Condolences to Agneta, Julia and Lisa.

    I worked with Lee during 1991-1993 and 1994-95 and co-authored some reports with him when I was at LBL and have even been housesitting for him for a few weeks. We all learned a lot from his careful approach to assessing historical data and his masterful method of combining quantitative evidence with qualitative insights that included social, cultural and institutional issues. I also have strong connection to Sweden like him, including my own Fulbright year in Sweden in 1993-94 and my Swedish wife and family, and now living in Stockholm for over 12 years. I arranged a seminar for him in Stockholm some years ago. Lee inspired a lot of people by combining humor and music with a sharp intellect, painstaking analysis and collegial networking (he knew everyone and always remembered them). He will be missed by many.

     

    Francis X. Johnson

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011 8:57 AM

     

    All the best to your in your great loss.

    I met Lee back in 1968 and we have played together ever since -many times when he visited Denmark. Back in the sixties he was in Europe streching his eurorail ticket to the most. One day picking up his mail in Austria, going to Sweden, playing concerts in Denmark, going to Paris. He was the first to tell us about black holes at a jazz clinic in th early seventees, we played at his wedding in Sweden, did concerts with him and and trumpeter Ted Curson warming up for Herbie Hancock, and he was also a member of the danish group Music Marmalade. Later on, when he got involved in energy and transportation, we often played gigs with him at numerous energy conferences – the last time in Copenhagen during the summit in 2009. We all miss him. A few years ago I copied 25 cds to him with some of the concerts we did in a time span of 40 years.

     

     

     

    Ole Matthiessen

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011 7:29 AM

    Kära Agneta, Lisa och Julia!

    Vi träffades i Hanoi, Washington m m och jag planerade att komma förbi er i San Franscisco nästa år. Det var alltid så kul när Lee virvlade in i föreläsningssalen och presenterade nya unika sammanställningar av data. Diskussionerna tog fart och Lee inspirerade och engagerade sin publik. Vi är flera i Göteborg som kommer att sakna hans besök. En viktig röst har tystnat och det är mycket sorgligt!

    Hjärtliga hälsningar

    Marie

    Marie Thynell

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011 11:54 AM

     

    We all at TRT Trasporti e Territorio (Milan) are truly saddened to hear of this loss and would like to express our sincere condolences to Lee’s family, friends and colleagues.

    Some of us met, talked and worked with Lee personally. He will always live on in our hearts.Ciao Lee!

    the staff of TRT Italy
    Cosimo Chiffi

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011 10:55 AM

    My deepest condolences to Lee’s family and friends. Lee was a giant in his field, an inspiration to me and many others and a wonderfully warm, funny and generous person. He will be hugely missed

    Steve Sorrell

    Steve Sorrell

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011 9:32 AM

     

    As countless people around the world I enjoyed and was inspired by Lee in many ways. I use ASIF, work in EMBARQ, quote his extraordinary charts on vehicle and fuel data, and keep saying: technolgy helps, but good, sustainable transport saves us.  I commuted by bike, as well, and skype a lot!

    I was there when Catalina Ochoa (former EMBARQ, now at the World Bank) opened the box in which his Nobel price certificate was sent (as a member of IPCCC). I enjoyed several of his data rich presentations in incredible places like Manila, Bangkok or Mexico City.   I enjoyed some of his international appearences as a Jazz performer, as well as the parties in DC.

    I miss him a lot, and will like to share my symphaty with his extended family of students, colleagues and friends. I will do my little part on keeping his legacy (broad and deep legacy) alive.

    With love and care

     

    Dario Hidalgo

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011 11:25 AM

     

     

    My sincere condolences to the family of Lee.

    I had the good fortune and honor to know Lee, and be able to see him at least once a year, when he came to Milan to give his lectures on Sustainable Transport at the Enrico Mattei School of Eni. The appointment was often in the spring. Lee brought knowledge, international vision, energy data, and much humor. It was nice to dine together and listen to his speeches on energy, climate, music and, of course, wine. Often, but not always, Lee chose a bottle of Refosco dal peduncolo rosso, and spoke of energy and America, earthquakes and history, food and Bach. Ingenious, simple, informal, full of energy, friendly, tolerant, amusing and amused.

    We’ll miss you, Lee.

    enzo

     

    enzo di giulio

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011 2:32 PM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa & Julia,

    I was very sad to hear that Lee has departed.Please accept my deepest condolances. It was a pleasure and an honor to have known Lee. He was a gentleman, a scholar, and a good friend. We had many good trips together which I will remember fondly forever. These are hard times for you, and I wish you all the very best.

     

     

    John Rogers

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011 10:52 AM

     

    Lee remains larger than life. All of us are alive one day and dead the other, but very few of us manage to teach anything of value as Lee did and will continue to do in our memories, well beyond his scientific contributions.

    Early in July, I sent him a short email telling him to ask the doctors that a very large group of his friends and supporters is asking them to do their utmost best to get him better. After a few minutes, an hour may be, Lee responded (as usual), thanking me and telling me he was fine. I read this message as what he managed to teach us best: humility and a way of looking at life that was both deep and light.

    I have been in touch with Lee on and off in the past few years and got to know about his cancer in June, through one of his students. The news shocked me as it shocked all the ones who knew Lee. In the 90s, we worked together closely, trying to develop in India the work on indicators of energy intensity he had done in IEA countries. We were both at the IEA at the time and I traveled to India with Lee a couple of times. His humility and his intelligence helped him connect with people in an amazing way, from bus drivers to ministers, students to noble-prize winning scientists, businessmen to Kings. Lee’s mad schedule never meant his door was closed. His intellectual strength never materialized in arrogance. Lee was essentially a remarkable human being.

    One of the last times I think we met in person was during a barbecue at Lee’s house in Cleveland Park in DC, probably five or six years ago, a bit after we arrived in Washington. Celebrating 4th of July with neighbors. With Lee, Agneta and my wife, we ended up discussing weaving techniques in India and in Scandinavia, living in California compared to DC and the Bush administration attitude to climate change. All that with a bit of wine and music. Living life fully. Engagement and a pinch of salt. Relativity. None of that is all that serious after all, yet all of it is, requiring integrity, commitment, dedication, and a solid dose of humor.

    Having lost Lee is heavy. I try to relativize, but it is hard. My deepest condolences to Lee’s family. And a warm hug to Agneta.

    Pierre & Karthika

     

    Pierre Audinet

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 9:51 PM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    Oh, it is with a sad heart that I learn that Lee has departed from this world,  I wish I could be in Berkeley in this difficult time. Sending you love and caring thoughts.
    I remember back in 1998, when I first met Lee, how impressed I was with his intelligence, enthusiam and generosity. We wrote and article together, which gave me the opportunity to spend more time with him in his lab and learn from his great insights. It was wonderful to have his academic support during my early years in Berkeley. He was always pushing me harder, sendinf me positive feedbacks, and a true believer that we could change this paradigm of fuel consumption and a visionary for more liveble and sustaible cities.  His work will be here for our future.
    In a more personal level, I was able to spend time with him and his cat while catsitting for you back in 2001. It was when friendship grew, and I learnt about his love for opera and classical music. I was so amazed by his knowledge of culture and music from all over the world. He taught me about the different ryhtms and musical instruments he played. Parties in his backyear were always full fo joy and music.
    Your papa was also a papa to me while I lived in Berkeley. Thank you for caring for me!

    Dear Lee, wherever you are reading these words towards eternity, feel my deepest admiration and caring thoughts. Listening to Villa Lobos Bachianas and the Trem Caipira, one of your favourite Brazilian classical music and drinking some caipirinha to celebrate your fantastic and fulfilling life!

    Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade

    Renata Marson

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 1:13 PM

    Lee was an inspiration to me and to many many others, especially during the 1970s and 1980s when he pushed the campus and the world to do better environmentally in so many ways.  He was a pioneer, a leader, and an inspiration.

    David Kessler

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 7:01 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa & Julia,

     

    Please accept my deepest condolances for the departure of Lee. These are hard times for you, and I wish you all the best.

    Lee was, and will remain, a great example of the enlightened and driven scientist, able to produce great results from (his own) chaos. I first met Lee at a meeting we had in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam in 1993, organizing our first conference together in 1994. In fact, Lee introduced me to email, and was the first one to send me an actual attachment. As always, he was ahead of the times and of many of us. Through Lee my contacts with LBL were also established, which later on turned in almost 7 happy years at the lab. Although by that time he had already left for Paris. But his spirit was still wandering the hallways of Building 90 (and beyond).

    Lee will be sincerely missed, and especially his unparalelled sense of humor. That has inspired me and many of us, and will inspire me for a long time.

    My thoughts are with you all, and I hope that we will all remember Lee as an inspiration for not only our work, but especially to take a humorous look at our hectic lives.

    Ernst

     

    Ernst Worrell

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 3:32 AM

    Lee has been such a big source of inspiration, motivation and creative ideas for me; each time I met him, he gave me that extra push to carry on with the work.

    I will remember him as my motivation booster and will miss him a lot.

    François Cuenot

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 1:01 AM

     

    Agneta, Lisa, Julia, and Amy, my heart goes out to you.

    I was a colleague of Lee’s at PEEC. Lee was always very supportive of our behavioral work, and helped establish transportation in this work. He was clever, shared deep insights into big picture issues, and was always ready to talk through an issue or help connect me and others to the broad literature and network of colleagues with which he was familiar. I regret not working with him sooner on bridging our work in a deeper way. I will work on this, but feel a huge loss because we can no longer pursue this together.

     

    I feel an era has ended with the passing of Lee and Steve Schneider, two terrifically important climate and energy warriors who always called things out for what they were, fought for real change, and remained tireless in their work ethic and positive attitude – vocal and fearless, with much room for humor in life. The rest of us will need to work hard to fill the gulf you have left.

     

    Carrie Armel

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2011 9:11 PM

     

    Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    My condolences to you and your family.  I can’t believe that Lee is no longer with us.  I will always remember Lee’s challenges to the prevailing point of view, his multi-tasking, his great sense of humor, his mentoring, and his musical talent.  I worked with Lee from 1990-1994 on developing and updating the database of energy consumption in the transportation sector in OECD countries from 1970-1990.

    When I began to work with Lee, he was just beginning to look at energy consumption on the transportation sector. My greatest memories were of trying to have a meeting with Lee and he would have e-mail on two computers, two phone lines in which he was taking in two different languages.  I always thought of his management style as similar to that of the jazz musician that he was.  He had a melody in his drive towards energy efficiency but he did a lot of improvising.  He would explore energy efficiency from a variety of perspectives but he always came back to the major melody but he worked the projects from many angles.

    Once I left Berkeley, I would seek out Lee at TRB to find out about his latest project.  When he was in DC, he often invited me to dinners at your home.  Those dinners always included people from all over the world who had so many different disciplinary perspectives but they all we committed to energy efficiency.  He looked at energy efficiency and climate change from so many different perspectives - as the energy analyst, as founder of EMBARQ, and as the advocate for good solid research that included empirical data – and in so many contexts – Asilomar, TRB, IEA, WCTRS, Climate change conferences, and across the world as he advocated for energy efficiency. I actively sought out his presentations at conferences. They let me know about the latest trends and they always included ten times as much information as anyone could present and he had humorous slides to make his point.  I especially loved his green car.

    Lee has certainly left his mark on the energy efficiency world by measuring, analyzing, and advocating for a more sane energy policy.  He will be missed.

    Ruth

     

    Ruth Steiner

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2011 5:54 PM

    Agneta, Lisa and Julia -

    I offer my deepest condolences to you and the rest of the Schipper family.

    Lee was one of my first “contacts” at LBNL in the late 1970s. For me, he was the quintessential “thinking outside of the box” person. What everyone else took for granted, Lee would ask “What about this ….?” While deep at work, he would always offer his own brand of humor …. it often took many of us several seconds (minutes?) to understand his joke. His lightening speed and multitasking was wonderous. I had to convince him to come to my office to focus on a specific topic or issue.

    I was fortunate to talk about him on the day after his death to over 100 people during the Rebound Panel that I moderated in Boston. Afterwards, several people thanked me for telling them about one of the landmark figures in our energy efficiency community.

    He will be missed!

    Ed

    Ed Vine

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011 3:03 PM

     

    Aloha Agneta, Lisa and Julia–

    I wish you strength to live with your huge loss. Lee may have lost the fight, but perhaps, just perhaps, because of his work, his energy, his mentoring, the rest of us may win the battle?

    Lee was my pick as a guest speaker in the late seventies when our environmental organization in Hawai`i, Life of the Land, held (what else?) an energy conference. We’ve remained friends.

    I last saw Lee in Mexico City nearly 10 years ago, where my friends and I met him and a colleague for a lovely, inspired, filled-with-laughter dinner.

    Warm aloha, Rike

     

    rike weiss

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011 4:39 AM

     

    Fra Politiken (stor dansk morgenavis) den 19.august 2011

     

    Lee Schipper
    Den amerikanske fysiker, miljøforsker og jazzmusiker, Lee Schipper, der også havde forbindelser i Danmark, er død efter kort tids cancersygdom. Schipper var ud over at være forsker med en betydelig akademisk karriere også en begavet vibrafonist, som, har nogen sagt, kunne være blevet en stor musiker, hvis han havde villet. I 1968 tog han en bachelor i musik i Berkeley.
    I stedet blev det forskning i energi og miljø, der blev hans levevej, mens jazzmusikken var en hobby. Schipper arbejdede bl.a. ved University of California, Berkely, var transportrådgiver hos Shell og projektansat ved det Internationale Energi Agentur i Paris. Flere gange var han projektansat i Sverige, hvor han også i 1973 indspillede pladen ”Funky Physicist”, i dag et uopdriveligt samlerobjekt. Schipper havde også mange venner blandt danske musikere, som han spillede med igennem årene. Senest optrådte han under COP15 klimatopmødet i København 2009 sammen med Erling Kroner, Bob Rockwell og Ole Mathiessen i Paradise Jazz i Huset.

    Christian Munch-Hansen, Politiken 19/8 2011.

     

    indsendt af Lene Nielsen

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 11:14 PM

    I express my deepest condolences to Lee Schipper’s family, friends, and colleagues.  I had a few interactions with him at TRB conferences and learned a lot from his work, always being amused by his wonderful sense of humor.  Lee was instrumental in helping me collect data for my research on transportation in Latin American cities.  His contributions in the field of sustainable transportation and energy will guide many of us for years to come.

    May he rest in peace.  He lives on in his work and his music.

    -Anjali

    Anjali Mahendra

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 7:08 PM

     

    Dear Agneta, Julia, and Lisa,

     

    My deepest condolences to you. Lee was such a wonderful, optimistic, and creative person. He will be truly missed! It was an honor for me to work with him in the last few years. His work inspired me, as it did so many

    people around the world. Without a doubt it can be said that he did far more than his fair share to change the world.

     

    I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to say good bye to him some days ago.  Even as he so strongly felt the effects of the cancer in recent weeks, it was truly inspirational how he maintained his energy, sense of humor, spirit, and his everlasting commitment to our

    common goal of creating a better world (as well as his commitment to his iPhone!)

     

    He was loved by his caring family and great friends and admirers from all over the world, and he always will be!

     

    Holger

     

    Holger Dalkmann

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 3:14 PM

    Dear Schipper Family,

    I can’t tell you how much I will miss Lee as my adviser. About a year ago, when I was in complete crisis about what I was doing with my life and career, I went to Lee and asked him what he though I should do. He told me that the most important thing was to be happy, passionate, and fascinated. Within two days, we had rewritten my PhD plan with those goals in mind and I’ve been executing ever since. Having such a caring and inspiring adviser is rare and I’m so grateful for the short chance I had to work with and learn from him.
    All the best,
    Laura

     

    Laura Schewel

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 3:06 PM

     

    Lee was doing important work and he had a positive and entertainingway of giving his message about how to realistically and sensibly reduce energy consumption.

    Eric Bruun

     

    Eric Bruun

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 12:20 PM

     

    My deepest condolences to Lee´s family

     

     

     

    He will be in our hearts and in our everyday work. I cannot think my academic work without all the things I learned from him, including his energy for life and transformation.

     

     

     

     

    Claudia Sheinbaum

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 12:10 PM

     

    Mes très sincères condoléances.

    It was such a great joy to have Lee as a colleague here at IEA in the 90s… and to run into him in the oddest places, on the street in snowy Montreal for the last time, a few years back. He’s made a mark here, also because he was such an influence for the younger generation of people like me, who were trying to make progress on the whole energy/climate issue.

    I liked him a lot and will miss him.

     

     

    Richard Baron

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 11:40 AM

    I never worked directly with Lee, but found his lasting intellectual impressions all over on a wide range of energy issues. I met him last in Feb’11 at UC Berkeley. He was there only for a brief time for a day-long conference, but that was enough for him to drive home some key points for the entire gathering.

    This is a big loss for all us. We will all miss you very much, Lee.

    Varun Rai

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 10:21 AM

    Dear family and friends of Lee

    We have decided over at World Streets to celebrate Lee for the next couple of weeks, and invite anyone who wishes to come along and be part of this, not to be shy but to click tohttp://www.WorldStreets.org and see how it is playing out.

    You will note that we have set out to assemble and publish a selection of Lee’s most creative and thought-provoking essays; if you click to http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/?s=schipperwill see the first handful thus far posted.

    In addition in our Letters to the Editor rubric you will see the first of the testimonials which have come in from friends and colleagues around the world.  You may wish to add to them as well, and are cordially invited to do so.

    Several of us have already started to discuss a fitting (that means in Lee’s case unexpected, creative and smile provoking) memorial for our old friend, but for the time being I think it best that we talk about this privately.  If you would like to join the conversations, please let me know and be sure you will be more than welcome.

    My thought in all this is it that if we keep ourselves busy thinking about and working on these initiatives, we will slowly accustom ourselves to a life in which Lee is, in this way, still very much in our heads and our hearts.

    Eric Britton

    eric britton

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 9:26 AM

    Dear family of Lee,

    There are several words that rise up for me today, upon news of Dear Lee’s passing.
    Thought
    Imagination
    Memory
    … and Impact …

    Lee’s work involved many thought images – elaborate problem solving demonstrations, and teachings, that a physicist’s curiosity brings forth.  Thought images offered in Lee’s engaging the world are one pillar of brilliance.

    Lee engaged the world of experience with the challenge of imagination.   Imagination images have their source in experience, and imagination refers to possible or hypotheticalforms of experience.  Lee always greeted us and left us with the preposterous challenge to imagine what is possible, for energy, for the world, for our human communities.

    We now share the memory images of Lee’s friendship, his humor, our shared experiences in his company.  Lee’s many scholarly works are some of the artifacts to which I can tie my memory images of Lee.  I am grateful for these memory images, now being shared by others in Lee’s circle whom I may never meet.  Our memory of Lee connects us, so many.

    Lee impacted us, changed our world, helped us be more creative in our various endeavors.  These dimensions – thoughtful expertise, unbounded imagination, and a body of memorable experiences – are only three of the ways I can mark Lee’s impact.  These pail in comparison to the love that clearly gave, and to love of his family and friends that clearly energized his spirit.

    Thank you, for sharing Lee with the world.  What a gift.

    James Corbett

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011 4:00 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia and Ramon:

    I hope you are doing well and finding the strength in each other in these difficult times. Lee will be surely missed by all of us, but he lives on in our hearts, lives and work… he was an absolutely remarkable person!

    We are all thinking about you and wish you all the best,

    Paul, Anna, Simon & Thomas

     

    Paul Procee

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 10:20 PM

    My heartfelt condolences to the family. I only knew Lee for a few years but had the honor of working with him on one of his more recent projects. Seldom have I met someone filled with such intellect, kindness, energy, and good humor. I am grateful for his presence and for his legacy.

    Greg Fuhs

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 7:11 PM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    My deepest condolences to you.

    To me Lee has always been a very inspiring and encouraging person. I still vividly remember every time he saw me he would say hi in Chinese to me. I also remember his e-mail address,mrmeter@stanford.edu. What a lovely professor. He has made great contribution to bridge the transportation research between China and the U.S.. He will always be with us.

     

    Yueming

     

    Yueming Qiu

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 6:57 PM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,
    Once again Lee caused those around him to think about things they need to but don’t want to think about, didn’t he? It was a theme with him, wasn’t it?  I remember him tagging California’s ZEV (Zero Emissions Vehicle) as an EEV (Elsewhere Emissions Vehicle).  Right on!  Reality is often hard to swallow.  It was a real bummer to see him suffering in the hospital and now having him no longer a part of our lives leaves a huge emptiness.  I wish he and I had had time for one more bike ride, but at least I have many pleasant memories of our time together both at work and play.   I remember him  beating me down Mt Rose highway to Incline Village on his bike one afternoon — I was driving a car — and his exhilaration from the speed.  I only wish I had been in the Bay Area over the past couple of months so that I could have come by to say hello and thank him for the remarkable influence that he had on the way I think about  energy and the friendship that we enjoyed over these past  20 years.
    With a great mixture of sorrow and appreciation,
    — Steve

     

    Steve Wiel

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 4:16 PM

     

    I have known Lee for only around 5 years but have known and been inspired by his work and ideas since I was a PhD student. Not just a great academic but also someone with so much energy and enthusiasm and a real desire to make a difference. He was also great in taking people as they came – no fuss about reputations and all of that stuff.

    I am really very sad about your loss – I hope that the many lovely messages on this website provide some solace.

    Greg

     

    Greg Marsden

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 2:35 PM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    Thank goodness for this website which helps us all to share thoughts with you without too much disruption.  It contains but a hint of the footprint that Lee left on so many lives and on the way we see things.

    My thoughts are with you in this difficult time.

    May Lee’s memories and inspirition remain with us forever!

    Jan

     

    Jan Corfee-Morlot

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 2:29 PM

     

    i am saddened to hear of lee’s passing. let me extend my condolences to you.

    we last saw each other about 10 years ago in the classical music section of amoeba in berkeley.

    during the 60′s lee used to travel to sweden and i would work his hours at moe’s. he always maintained the i bought all the good recordings that came in and when he returned from europe there was nothing of interest for him. that was probably true.

    lee and i shared a membership in the furtwangler society when it was first founded.

    lee took my suggestion about how to gain access to the rias tape archives in germany. use a piece of blank university stationery and type a letter asking for lee to be extended access as a researcher.

    i used to see lee giving energy efficiency tours of telegraph avenue while wearing his recycled santa suit. he was very much on the cutting edge of this issue.

    and finally i guess i’ll never see the van with the ‘voven’ license plate again.

     

     

    jim harper

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 2:26 PM

    May his name be for a blessing.

    Lisa Feldstein

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 2:19 PM

    Dear Agneta and family-
    I am so sorry to hear the news of Lee’s passing.  He was always so “Lee”–smart, funny, larger than life.  My condolences to you in this time of holding on and letting go.
    –Sally (Fiske) Nasman

    A Litany of Remembrance
    by Roland B. Gittelsohn

    In the rising of the sun and in its going down,
    we remember them.
    In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter,
    we remember them.
    In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring,
    we remember them.
    In the blueness of the sky and in the warmth of summer,
    we remember them.
    In the rustling of leaves and in the beauty of autumn,
    we remember them.
    In the beginning of the year and when it ends,
    we remember them.
    When we are weary and in need of strength,
    we remember them.
    When we are lost and sick at heart,
    we remember them.
    When we have joys we yearn to share,
    we remember them.
    So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us,
    as we remember them.

    - -

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 1:54 PM

    very sad… I was informed by Reena from Australia and we shared with the italian friends. Lee is a forever friend..always innovative and stimulating..We had plans to invite you again in Italy, as we recently talked,… but who was not having plans to invite Lee, somewhere, in the world? I will miss you.

    roberto pagani

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 1:53 PM

    Maria and I were so shocked and saddened to hear the untimely news of Lee’s passing, especially for his wonderful family, but also for the whole world that Lee influenced.  If a youthfully spirited Jewish kid with eclectic interests, a passion for energy sustainability and conservation, and madly in love with his Swedish wife and adventurous daughters could have a doppleganger, surely Lee and I were destined to be friends that readily understood and appreciated one another.  We were brought together by the kindest, warmest, and best Swedish teacher i could have wished for, his darling wife Agneta, and he became one of my first friends in DC.  When I was nominated to serve in public office, lee was quick to be helpful in every way imaginable and the two of us assembled and convened diverse participants in a needed dialogue that had been failing to find catalysts.  I relied on his judgment, sound strategy, experience, and humor to get me through multiple vexing challenges.  None bigger than negotiating the Bali Roadmap.  I was sure that with all my boards in the bay area that we would be seeing more and not less of one another during these years and that I would finally have a chance to catch up with Agneta, and hear more wonderful stories of the girls travels, adventures, and impacts.  I am so sad we will miss making new memories and to lose such a valuable friend and unusually lively and spirited soul.  Sincere Condolences from all the Karsners.  For all the family, tusen kramar.  Much love and hugs,

    Andy and Maria and my Swedish brood

     

    Andy and Maria Karsner

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 1:09 PM

    When I last wrote in this guestbook I’d just learnt of his illness and was sure he will come out fully recovered.

    It was therefore a great shock when I heard a few hours back that he is no more. I first met Lee about seven years back and over the years we became good friends. I was always amazed by his quick-silver responses through his one line Emails (I’d tease him that his subject line was longer than his message) but his views were always insightful – never flippant.
    Over the years we also became good friends and exchanged views on another topic of great interest to us both  - that of Jazz. He was a highly talented vibraphonist and would send me links to some of his performances.
    As I mourn his death, and convey my condolences to his family, I can see him somewhere far away playing his vibraphone with an expression of intense concentration and great tranquility..
    –
    Sujit Patwardhan
    Parisar,
    Pune, India

     

    Sujit Patwardhan

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 1:06 PM

    Goodbye, Lee. I fondly remember our mountain bike rides in Tilden Park and around Grizzly Peak. I always felt deeply honored to be spending time with you. I hope you’re playing great jazz in heaven. Although you’re probably fixing all the transportation problems up there too! You touched the lives of many people and made the world a better, cleaner and happier place. Vaya con Dios.

    Robert Collier

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 11:50 AM

     

    I was more of a acquantance of Lee than a friend. I first encountered Lee at at a National Academies of Science meeting on climate change back in 1997 when the subject was still nascent and there were many naysayers. Lee began his presentation about how his United Airlines flight from Paris to Washington on a Boeing 777 was very fuel efficient on a per mile basis. I continued to run into Lee while at the Inter-American Development Bank where I worked in urban transport. Even after I left the IDB, Lee was kind enough to have lunch with me when he was at WRI knowing I was no longer in the same field. He always told delightful stories. I will miss Lee he was a fine scholar and a even finer gentlemen.

     

    Dharm Guruwamy

     

    Dharm Guruswamy

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 11:23 AM

    I met Lee only a few times, at TRB and the WRI, but he left a lasting impression, with his intelligence, wit, and passion. It was a real shock when his student Adam Millard-Ball told me just last month about his cancer. His passing is a tragic loss, but he will doubtless continue to be an inspiration to us all.

    Madhav Badami

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 11:21 AM

    Adieu Prof. Meter, thanks a lot for all those great discussions and sharing your experiences.

    My deepest condolences to all the family members, though I dont know you all in person, feel hugged.

    Still unable to believe

    Sunny Kodukula

    Sunny Kodukula

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 10:50 AM

     

    I have known and admired Lee for many years. He was one of the most original and creative thinkers in the energy field. He will be greatly missed.

     

     

     

    Alan Crane

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 10:27 AM

     

    This is such sad news and my condolences to all of you. Lee was an exciting personal and intellectual inspiration to a vast community, and I count myself as very privileged to have been among his colleagues. His work will live on in my own teaching and research as I’m sure it will in that of many others, and his wit will cheer us and challenge us to live life to its full as he did so well. It’s so hard to believe we won’t see him again, but Lee is someone we’ll never forget, and even with the sadness his memory will always spur smiles of happiness for how well he shared his love of life with all of us.

     

    John DeCicco

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 10:05 AM

    Dear Professor,

    Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
    You were truly an inspiration to us all, with your great insights and a wonderful, quirky sense of humor. At every class, seminar or informal meeting, I would be grinning and chuckling throughout — amused, and learning all the while. I especially admired your deep sense of ethics, which was intertwined with your unparalleled technical expertise.
    In Mexico, in China — so many benefited from your work and your enlightened views on clean transportation. At Stanford, at Berkeley — so many enjoyed your company and your counsel. You were willing to reach out to students, to answer queries large and small, to share your thoughts and introduce colleagues, to include us in new transportation experiences.
    Our hearts go out to your family.
    As you begin a new adventure, please know that we will recall the far-too-short time we had with you fondly. We will keep your wit and wisdom close.
    All the very best,

     

    Kevin Hsu

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 9:35 AM

    Saddened by our loss, I offer some reflections here:

    We were all his students – In Memory of Lee Schipper

    -Steve

     

    Steve Winkelman

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 5:49 AM

    Dear Agneta, dear Girls,

    I was shocked by the news about Lee, as we all thought his being so full of life will make him immortal.

    It was of some comfort knowing from Robert that he kept everybody in high spirits until the end, and I’m glad he sent a mail in Italian from the hospital.

    It hurts a lot thinking to our first meeting in ’79 and the many experiences, studies and research I shared with him, and that changed my life.

    He will remain immortal for his intelligence, vitality and originality in the memory of all the persons that had the honour of knowing him.

    Ciao Lee! Paola and I will always take you with us.
    Andrea Ketoff

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 4:43 AM

    Just read about Lee’s demise. Please accept our deepest condolences. My interactions with Lee were only sporadic and I think we personally met only once. But the few discussions I had were enriching and educative. His loss is a big loss to the community of sustainable transport.

    Ashok Sreenivas

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011 4:08 AM

     

    Ciao, huge little man.
    Now I see you living ubiquitously in all people you met, in the same way you could communicate syncronously with all of us (even while playing…).
    And I also like to imagine you driving the green beetle that ended so many of your presentations (while absorbing GHG emissions for all of us…).
    I am really glad to have had the chance to cross your time.
    Finally, I am not close to any of Lee’s family, but I wish I was, and I would really like to give you all a big hug.

     

    Pierpaolo Cazzola

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:46 PM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia, Ramon,

    I am so sorry to hear that Lee passed away.  I don’t know how I can express my feeling.

    From the very first moment I met him, he was a very good friend of mine – more than that, he had been my teacher and my mentor.  I truly enjoyed working with him and he gave me lots and lots of nice memory.  It was he who taught me how wonderful to work with international community and without him, I couldn’t enjoy my work as much as I do now.
    I feel very sad that I couldn’t visit him in time.  I just want to thank him for all he gave to me.  I miss him.

    Yuki

    Yuki Tanaka

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 5:39 PM

     

    Stories from a sibling.

    When I sent an email to my bosses this morning telling them that I would not be coming in today one of them wrote me back, “I can’t imagine what it is like to lose a sibling.” I hadn’t thought of it that way. A sibling is someone who is there even when he’s not there.  And Lee, who must have had an email implant was always there 24/7. He would email me with the strangest familiy trivia questions and email back answers to my questions. I saw more of him surrounding and after our mother’s death in 2001. I suppose that’s no accident. At our mother’s service he wanted to have a Kaddush read even though it was not a religious service. So he google’d it (yes, a verb we didn’t learn in elemenary school)  and downloaded a transliteration and as he read it we realized that many people in the audience knew it by heart. I think he figured after all those classes to get Bar Mitzvah’d he was going to put it to some use!  We put on the entire “service” together. Because we were siblings. There are certain things that siblings do that nobody else does.  He brought back what he could find of his high school jazz band and played what he deemed to be our mother’s favorite song. He brought to life our whole upbringing. He gave me so many insights. And even though he was always doing three things at once he heard everything I said. Remembered the tiniest of details. I think he even remembered the time he scared the crap out of some goons who were heckling me as I walked to Warner Avenue Elementary School. He skipped his crossing guard duty one day and they didn’t realize  he would be there and just as they were ready to strike I remember him coming through on his bike knocking their books out of their hand. I was the quiet one but he was my big brother. And always will be. I remember sometimes wishing I had a sister. What was I thinking?  There is nothing like a big brother. I remember when I was on Junior Year Abroad in 1969 in France. He left a car for me in Paris–an old Mercedes that was almost too big for the French streets. I picked up the car with my friend Rhonda and we drove to Uppsala and met this girl Agneta who let us stay in her dorm. Boy, did my big brother have connections!  And he did research on our family  tree. He even visited the city in what is now Russia where our mother’s father (Leon) was born. Not much left of it these days. I could go on and on–life with Lee was never boring– but then I wouldn’t be the quiet sister. Thank you for being my brother Lee!

     

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 4:05 PM

    I’m so sorry to hear that Lee has passed away.  I’ve known him for so many years……probably about 30…..and my overwhelming impression of him has been of somebody who really knows how to live….he was so ALIVE…..so absolutely irreverent, brilliant, funny….and one of the most productive guys I know.  One damned fine guy…..STEVE PLOTKIN

    Steve Plotkin

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 2:53 PM

    Lee once told me he was going to “change the world”. He said it with such conviction… And well, truth be told, he has… My deepest condolences to you, Agneta, Lisa, and Julia. Hugs, Gabrielle

    Gabrielle Hermann

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 1:58 PM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    I am deeply saddened to hear of Lee’s death.  With Pancreatic Cancer, this was inevitable, but still very hard to accept.

    Lee was an easy man to respect.  He had high intelligence, high integrity, great determination, a total focus on issues that interested him, and a total lack of concern for conventional wisdom.

    Lee was an easy man to like.  He was friendly, supportive and totally open about his opinions (which were always strongly held and almost always right).  His personality was not that of a shrinking violet, but that was fine because he always had something useful to say and he tried to make his point with humor rather than combativeness (if humor didn’t work, however…).

    Lee was easy to work with.  He had an endless supply of ideas and an incredible store of data that only he seemed to have fully cataloged.  He was not protective of his ideas and data, and always commented rather than criticized.

    I will think of him whenever I write new papers on energy where he will inevitably have the lead in citations.  When I see more energy efficient cars, I will say “there goes something that Lee helped to push.”  If the Congress ever has the integrity to abolish the corn/ethanol program, I will know that Lee would cheer loudly.  When electric automobiles begin to find a role, I will miss being able to sit with Lee and figure out how quickly the demand for charging batteries will wreck PG&E’s distribution system.  I would bet that one of his major professional regrets was not living long enough to see the global warming deniers totally demolished.

    He was a good man by all the ways I know to measure and I will miss him greatly.

    Lou Thompson

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 12:56 PM

     

    My deepest condolences to Lee’s family.

    He will be remembered among all of those who have been benefit from him including me.

    Sincerely,

    Jiyong Eom

     

    Jiyong Eom

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:55 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia and Ramón,

    We met in the IEA about 15 years ago and we recontacted recently and started to work on the spanish case on transport efficiency . His generosity, inteligence, sense of humour and availability (even at 2 am) have been a real inspiration. He came to Madrid to a conference in April, and he was a star, I still laugh when remembering his presentation on sustainability challenges and his “atascos”. We are already missing Lee.

    All the best for you in these difficult days and many thanks for keeping the spirit of Lee in this Journal and Guestbook.

    Un abrazo muy fuerte

    María Mendiluce

     

    Maria Mendiluce

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:23 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia, and Josh,

    Though fatalistically expected and awaited, Lee’s passing hit Joanna and me in a deeply personal way, as it was Lee who insisted on introducing us to each other, 33 years ago.  Though his life was cut short, he left many a lifetime’s worth of indelible tracks in the world, as his thousands of friends and works attest.

    Now is the time to start turning to the living, and both Joanna and I look forward to see more of you and your extended families in the years to come.

    Robert and Joanna

     

    Robert Sonderegger

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:04 AM

     

    My sincere condolences to everyone on Lee’s passing. Although, sadly, his vists here were too few, nonetheless, Lee was often thought of and will always be remembered.

    Sincerely,

    Bob Schipper

     

     

    Robert Schipper

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:02 AM

     

    My deepest condolences to Lee´s Family. We will all remember him as a great teacher and a great friend. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

     

     

    Yorgos Voukas

     

    CTS Mexico

     

     

    Yorgos Voukas

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 10:02 AM

    While I am not close to any of Lee”s family, I can share that Lee had a tremendous impact on my career in energy efficiency.  Always a forward thinker and visionary, I can simply say the energy efficiency world is diminished by the loss of Lee.

    Mike Weedall

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 9:58 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia, Ramon,

    As one of the many Als in Lee’s life (as in Schipper et. Al.), I rode close for a time and drafted in his air wake in our meandering bike ride through life.  Berkeley, Paris, Washington.  Lots of music and banter – and banter about music – along the way.  In recent years, I cycled off onto a different branch of the same cycleway, but knowing that he was just a two minute response in cyberspace away was always a great comfort.

    How much I learned from the man I cannot begin to recount.  It’s true he had sustained passion and energy for sustainable energy and was a trailblazer in the field, but for all that, he never tired of bringing generations of his students along, and pushing us into the limelight.  How much of my own career trajectory I owe because of that push, I cannot estimate. I will be forever grateful.

    I am grateful to you, Agneta, as well.  Grateful that you and Lisa gave me (and many others, apparently) the chance to come and say goodbye. Your warmth, poise, and strength during this period has been truly inspirational.

    May you find peace and solace in the knowledge that Lee’s was truly a life fulfilled.  He did everything with passion, and he did a lot.

     

    Roger Gorham

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 9:39 AM

     

    Lee lived a unique and wonderful life. His most lasting legacy — even more than his work — is the wonderful memories his many friends will have and the kindness and warmth he gave to so many people. His spirit will live very long after him.Mark

     

    Mark Levine

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 9:18 AM

    Dear Lisa,

    He was great!…what else can I say…there are few people that I know who cared so much or were as passionate as your dad. His finger prints are on countless reports and the ripples he made will last for decades. Please extend my condolences to you mother and family.

    Dennis

    Dennis Tirpak

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 9:03 AM

     

    I will miss your banter, leadership, and passion that you radiated for your life and work. Words do come hard to express the loss.

    Lee has played a role in most of my work at EIA for the past couple of decades. Smart guy with great passion – we’ll miss you greatly.

    My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.

     

     

    Mark Schipper

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 8:52 AM

    My condolences to Lee’s family.  I worked for Lee at LBL while a grad student at ERG.  He was always a vibrant character, personable, enthusiastic, and closely involved with everyone who worked for him.  Good-bye, Lee, you leave a wide-ranging influence through your students and colleagues and the warmth you shared with all.

    Nancy Kiang

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 7:50 AM

    In remembrance…

    Jeff Porro

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 7:04 AM

     

    My condolences to your family. May his memory be for a blessing.

    Lee was one in a billion: brilliant, hilarious, gruff, passionate and generous with his time.  I will miss him dearly.

     

    Steve Winkelman

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 6:43 AM

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    We have lost one special person.  One who always was a step ahead of us, not only in thinking, but also in doing, as well as caring,  As a friend from junior high and high school in Los Angeles, Lee was one amazing person even at that early age.  I knew he had potential and he proved it, time and time again, to all who knew him and all who surrounded him.

    May his memory be a blessing for his family, friends and associates wherever they may be.

    With deepest sympathy,

    Marc

    Atlanta,GA

     

     

     

    Marc Rosen

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 6:00 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Professionally your teachings are still in my head.

    As a musician your performances are still in my ears.

    As a friend your love is still in my heart.

    It’s just that now I don’t need to straighten your tie.  And you don’t just pop up on SKYPE anymore.

    I miss you so much… It was far too soon.

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, Julia…  My prayers are with you.

    Sibel

     

     

    Sibel Bulay

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 5:43 AM

     

     

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia,

    This was indeed a posting I was hoping we’d never see.  Lee has left this world a good 25 years too soon and the gaping hole he has left behind cannot be measured, nor can the love and respect the countless people all around the world who knew him had for him.  It was impossible to have just a professional relationship with Lee … a friendship of some sort was always borne out of any encounter … usually a long-lasting one.  Lee’s enthusiasm and love of life was deliciously contagious.

    I would like to thank you, his family, for enabling all those who love Lee to have been able to be kept aware of his situation – it must have been difficult for you.  Thank you too to Caring Bridge, through which we have all been able to convey and share our thoughts, messages, anecdotes, photographs, ‘Lee experiences’ … I know instinctively that these are something you will all treasure and will provide some comfort in the difficult months ahead.

    On every continent, many people knew, loved and respected Lee … I doubt that there’s anyone out there who will ever be able to fill his shoes.  We will always miss him.

    Anne

     

    Anne Mayne

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 5:28 AM

    To the Family Of Lee Schipper:

    We share your pain and your loss. May the memories of his beautiful life be our source of comfort and joy as we pray for his eternal peace.
    Good men like your dad never die; they just fade away!

    Keep going!

    Vicky Segovia

    Victoria Segovia

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 4:35 AM

     

    Kaere Agneta, Lisa og Julia

    Jeg sender jer de kaerligste tanker i denne svaere tid.

    Jeg er stolt og taknemmelig over, at jeg fik lov til at vaere ven med Lee i 42 aar og selv om afstanden for det meste var stor, var han altid et sted i min bevidsthed og han vil altid vaere i min erindring som et stort menneske. Hans bidrag til Verden og til musikken har vaeret af uvurderlig betydning.

    Jens Jørn – der ogsaa sender kaerlige hilsener fra Anne

     

    Jens Jørn Gjedsted

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 4:04 AM

     

    Dear Lisa,

    This was an update I was hoping not to see but I am happy that when Lee passed on, he was surrounded by his loving family and after so many of his friends were able to tell him what a tremendous personal and professional impression he has made around the world.

    Your dad (Mr. Meter!) spent his life measuring kWhs, grams of CO2 and other minutiae related to the flow of energy and matter but what strikes me is that whenever I think of Lee, I retain only the immensurate;

    - his patience and enthusiasm for sharing knowledge,

    - his curiosity and penchant for really bad jokes,

    - his love of life best characterised when in front of a good meal, behind his vibraphone, or anywhere he could leech off of a free wifi!

    - his pride for his daughters and his love for his family.

    Lee is now part of what he used to measure but his energy is still with us. Though we all regret not being able to speak with him again, we can all take comfort in the thought that he has left the world a better place than when he arrived.

    Philippe

     

    Philippe Crist

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 3:33 AM

     

    Just heard the terrible news. The world – and not just that of energy – has lost a giant. I will remember him for his extradorinary intellect, commitment, integrity and humour. And his love of wine and jazz – I will never forget the time I managed to render him speakless (a rare event) when I told him my brother in law was an Art Blakey Jazz messenger!

    Sincerest condolences to Lee’s family.

     

    Trevor Morgan

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 3:18 AM

     

    We had the pleasure meeting Lee at the ACEEE and in the field of energy efficiency.

    He’s already missed by NL Agency, the former SenterNovem of the Netherlands and the eceee friends.

    Manager International Collaboration, the Netherlands,

     

    Rob Kool

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 2:41 AM

     

    So sad that he is not here anymore. Several in the Danish energy field are already missing him but at the same time we share all the great Lee-memories. Now we must do our best to live up to Lee’s fantastic vibrations.

    Many thoughts to Lee’s family

    Lene     (Danish Energy Agency)

     

    Lene Nielsen

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 1:16 AM

    I am so sorry to hear of Lee’s passing. I will miss his wit, insight, and indefatigable energy. With love to the family,

    Mark Delucchi

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 1:13 AM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa and Julia

    So sorry to read that Lee is not with us anymore. We will remember him with fondness (and some awe).
    Love

    The Dreyfus

    Genevieve Dreyfus

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 1:07 AM

     

    Lee, Nora and I are very sorry you have left us. But you are now at peace. We will miss your intellect, humor, ambition — and the mega-project we are talking about this Spring. We will always remember your great qualities.

    Sorry that when we were getting together for short talks this Spring we didn’t finish our reflections on how many decades we have known one another — and some of those save-the-world meetings we were involved in in Scandinavia.

    Tom, Uppsala

     

    tom burns

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 12:48 AM

    Dear Agneta and family, I was so sorry to hear the latest news, even though we knew in our hearts that the outcome was all but inevitable in these last weeks.  I shall miss my occasional technical interactions with Lee, but you have lost far more than that.  Be upheld by Lee’s many friends around the world in the days ahead, and may your memories outlast the grieving.

    Thank you, Lisa, for keeping us in touch with Lee by proxy.  It must have been hard for you to do.

    Ray Brindle

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 12:41 AM

    Hi to all,

    Very sorry to hear about Lee. I remember him well from the days at ERG — inspiring, fun, thoughtful. Thoughts to him, Lisa who I’ve worked with since those early days, and all of you.

    Marcus Moench

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 9:05 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I don’t know you well but was fortunate enough to  have a few interactions with you while our time at WRI coincided and even after as you still continued to send WRI ‘insider’ !Everybody emails from California. I just wanted to tell you thank you. As so many anecdotes shared by others give testament,  your energy and curiosity are inspiring and contagious – no matter the distance. Thank you for your generosity of spirit. You inspire more people than you will ever know.

     

    Natalie Bushell

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 7:03 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I just found out the news of your illness. How hard that must be for you, your family, and your extended community of friends and co-workers around the globe.
    I think back to when I first met you two decades ago at IIASA. You sat next to me during a boring presentation and managed to keep me well entertained the whole time. Your ability to parallel process wildly different strands of information keeps your colleagues on their toes, sometimes confused, and always entertained. You helped get me a job at LBL and into the world of clean transportation – thank you for being such a wonderful and supportive resource to me and to so many others. You cleared the way for a whole generation of researchers and policy wonks to enter the clean transportation field.
    When I hear crazy jazz music, I will think of you.
    Love,
    Patty Monahan

     

    Monahan Patty

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 1:41 AM

    Dear friends and family of Lee,

       I have never met Lee, but I saw him through a friend of Lee’s, andrew, who posted a wonderful youtube video of Lee a couple of years ago while he was playing percussion. I read all the posts and just wanted to say how sorry I am he is dying. He is obviously an amazing human being who has no business leaving this earth this early. I can only say I wish I had met him and gotten to know him. Best wishes, Heidi ( San Jose, CA)

     

    heidi schossberg

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 11:50 PM

    Lee,

    The first time we interacted was when I Skyped you in to the Green Buildings and Behavior class that I was TAing. You gave the guest lecture on sustainable transportation systems remotely not because you were travelling for research, but because you were at home recovering from shoulder surgery the day prior.  Your dedication to “walking the walk” not only saved energy, but also inspired students with your commitment to spread your vision about a better, cleaner, future. We still have more people to share that vision with…
    Thanks for your great class, your enthusiasm in setting up conferences and EV car shows, and friendly “hellos” as we passed each other in Y2E2.
    Sincerely,
    Noel

     

    Noel Crisostomo

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 3:34 PM

    Lee:

    In the few years I have known you, you have always been an inspiration and I always felt encouraged and energized after even the shortest chat.

    Cancer sucks.

    -k2

    Karl Knapp

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 12:35 PM

    Dear Lee!

    Man, I’m sorry to hear that this cancer has snuck up on you so quick – just a couple of months ago when we had lunch in your office you seemed the pinnacle of health. Well, maybe it will help you feel a bit better to know that as a student and a researcher you were of course someone to look up to and learn from a great deal. But what most inspired me was the way our conversations about research methods and emissions factors seemed to always somehow touch on personal travel, world music, bike rides, and all the other things that make life worth living. I loved your passion for your field but even more so your passion for learning and sharing and experiencing everything else – it is beautiful. Nothing makes a student or a young person feel like they can achieve than when they feel that someone great believes in them. You did that for me and it meant a lot. Thank you. You still owe me a bike ride!
    All the best,
    Colin

     

    Colin Hughes

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 11:34 AM

    Dear Lee, Agneta, Lisa and Julia- I awoke this morning thinking about you all, as I have been for weeks, but today I realized I needed to let you know what a gift you have given so many people. Sharing Lee’s demise so openly has taken courage, compassion and the willingness to honor Lee’s life long desire to reach out and connect. He’s been doing that with great whirling dervish vigor for all the 50 years I’ve known him, and its really quite amazing that you’ve all found a way for that to continue even with him bed-bound and essentially immobile. This has I know been exhausting for all of you, and heartbreaking for us, but it is really quite extraordinary.

    Somehow Lee is still Lee, even though much of his mechanics have ceased to function properly. This is a true testimony to the incredible indomitable spirit that lives inside him, and of course a hunk of which is lodged in all of us who have shared time with him.
    I send big hugs to you all.
    Love,
    Don

     

    Fels Don

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 9:40 AM

    Lee

    From an ex-student perspective, there is no-one as approachable as you were at Stanford. The unique enthusiasm you brought to the classroom, as well as the academic insights and guidance you gave, made for some of my most interesting and memorable times. Thank you for being so awesome and bringing such a big personality to the campus, and to my experience. And for always wanting to discuss the finer points of life such as a good kiwi Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc!
    Cheers to that

     

    Paul Burnaby

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 11:24 PM

    Dear Lee, in the past few years you’ve given me such great encouragement and for that I am always grateful. For each new idea I now come up with, I imagine what you’d have to say about it and what insights I haven’t considered! I wish you all the best and I know that if anyone has the energy to get through this it is you.

    Mikhail Chester

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 7:51 PM

    Lee:

    Susan and I came to visit you today, but you were so sound asleep I was not sure you heard my comments.  So I am sending them to you in writing.

    You should feel really goof about your accomplishments at Stanford, at PEEC.  You developed and taught a great course in sustainable transportation, organized a transport research seminar, mentored and inspired students,including helping several to produce their first published papers, debated rebound effects, analyzed the move toward electro-mobility, developed databases on transport energy indicators, raised funds, promoted PEEC worldwide, and generally created a locus of transport/energy excitement.

    The students with whom you are working at Stanford will continue be well supported, between Frances, Andreas, Ram, John, and me.  Of course, the support is not with quite the excitement and intensity you bring, but they are being supported well. So you need not worry.  However, I do miss you as a colleague at PEEC.  I especially miss your crashing through my door to share some new insight or question.  Things are less fun.

    Jim Sweeney

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 12:49 PM

    Dear Lee,

    We thought about you this afternoon when France and I went to the Jardin de Bagatelle to listen to the wonderful late clarinet quintet In A of our forever friend Mozart. If you have some kind of sound system over there , it would be just great if someone could figure out how to play it for you. And if you do not feel like staying up for the whole thing, at least make sure you do that splendid first movement, the Allegro.

    Hey I just ran it down on YouTube — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YgNnpyAa54&feature=player_embedded#at=36 Ain’t it amazing.

    Your disk jockey from Paris/Eric

    And of course from France who greets you with affection and emotion.

    eric britton

    Sent from CaringBridge Mobile

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 12:46 PM

     

    Querido Lee

    I am so grateful for your wise pursuit of change or world for the better, and for choosing what otherwise would have seem to be a difficult and dry area of work and making it interesting and desirable.  I carry with me memories of your help and support in the begginings of the CTS, your keenness in learning spanish, those explanations to the government officials of the Federal District, the sombreros metaphors (“white hats” references in a mexican context!!), ASIF and its meaning, and many other good moments that are with me forever.  You aslo made a deep impression in some of my proffessional pursuits, even now, in ECLAC drawing cities and urban transport to national attention.   I truly hope you have good days with your family and the peace and happiness of having a deeply meaningful life.

    all the best……sam

     

    joseluis samaniego

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 9:22 AM

    Hi Lee and family,

    It was good to see you Lee even if briefly last week. We are thinking of you and sending love and strength your way.

    I spoke to Jack Whittier last week too. Jack and I wanted to remind you & thank you for all your inspiration and support over the years. We are both in this field partly because of you!!

    And now some of our anecdotes from those days at the Lab: We remember watching you type out a report, talk on the phone, listen to an opera and interrupt everything by telling everyone what was going on during that moment of the opera which was being sung in some foreign tongue. Multi-tasking before we knew the phrase…

    Jack still has your album “Phunky Physicist” (remember that!) and I have this image clear as day of you in a photo near your desk: the street sign Abfart (or something ending with fart) with you bending over and covering the “ab” part with your butt! haha!

    Thanks for helping us to laugh at ourselves and hoping that your humor and humanity helps you through this difficult time.

    Love from Jan (and Jack)

    Jan Corfee-Morlot

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 7:36 AM

     

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    How can this be – this terrible news of your having to battle the ugly cancer – that reached me today? It is NOT fair or just.

     

     

     

    The world needs you and your bottomless energy to make it a better place. As do your family and your worldwide expanse of friends.

     

     

     

    Muster all to vanquish those nasty cells and know that thousands of near and far-away dear ones are sending you strength to conquer and prosper.

     

     

     

    It has been almost 20 years since I first heard you speak at the OECD. You made an indelible impression! It was an honor that later we became like-minded colleagues.

     

    Honestly, the times working with you were the most inspiring and the most fun of all the many IEA years.

     

     

     

    Much more importantly, it is an extreme honor to count you as a friend! What laughs, good food, good jazz, great wine and great times we had in the Paris days.  I am remembering a quatorze juillet fireworks fete at my place when you, in flaming red socks, were grilling Flora Lewis about her interviews with Churchill. Julia might have been among us that evening.

     

     

     

    We are behind a bike ride or two. But you know that my lousy knees will not tolerate those Berkeley Hills. So how about a coastal ride?

     

    Afterwards we can tap into the bottle of Daniel Mouty’s 1995 St Emilion Grand Cru that I have saved to share with you.

     

     

     

    Gros bisous, much hope and much love to you, Lee.

     

    Debra

     

     

    Debra Justus

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 6:23 AM

     

    Ja Du Lee,

    Du kom som en stormvind (inte helt olikt Karlsson i Hemsöborna) in i Energisverige med dina klargörande analyser av vad som EGENTLIGEN hände i vårt land. Och Du presenterade och diskuterade dem som en virvelvind. Med mycket insikt, mycket humor och med spetsiga formuleringar. Kanhända det retade en del men i så fall för att de saknade förmåga att ta detta till sig. Utan dig hade vi fortfarande trevat i mörkret utan att riktigt förstå vad som döljer sig bakom siffrorna.

    Och ovanpå alltsammans blev Du en vän. Hoppas att vi får en chans att scatta “Four Brothers” igen.

     

    Hans Nilsson

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 1:40 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

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    It’s been so many years that we have been friends and colleagues; it’s hard to think of something to pick out for this note of encouragement and sympathy.  I guess our IEA years together contained the most stories.  What I want to mention for others to read is how you gave a gift of music to so many IEA colleagues; not by being the wonderful vibes player that you are.  You bought blocks of tickets to the best upcoming classical performances and then made them available to your IEA colleagues.  Everyone knew that your tickets meant a wonderful musical experience was in store.

     

     

    When we went to concerts or operas together, I always treasured your comments after the performance as they deepened my musical appreciation.  Many years before we worked together at the IEA, you called me up one day that I happened to be in Paris and suggested that I join you to see Simon Rattle.  Afterwards, we dined with your friend Frau Furtwangler.  I’ll never forget that evening and many others that we shared.

     

     

    Carmine Difiglio

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011 12:17 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I trust that you—and readers of this blog, who love and admire you—will clearly recognize yourself in the following story from almost 40 years ago! I relate it to the best of my recollection. I trust this recollection will bring a sweet smile to your beautiful face.

    It was in the early 1970’s— about 1973? — and I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Berkeley, teaching Econ 1-A, a class of sometimes up to 1,000 undergraduates. One day, a wild-haired, clog-wearing, scraggly-bearded, and quite handsome young man (maybe 3 or 4 years younger than me), and wearing a really wild-colored cotton shirt, rushed up to me after a class and said—speaking quickly and breathlessly and ever so urgently: “Dr. Nadel, your students just have to be taught the Second Law of Thermodynamics and its implications; you have to let me lecture to them!”

    That’s it. No introduction. No explanation of who you were, what was your “cred”, why I should bother to listen to you.

    “And… you are…?” I asked.

    “Oh. Sorry. I’m Lee Schipper, in physics. (Or was it LBL or… whatever; I don’t remember if you even had your PhD yet.)

    And I said something like “OK…. but… I’m teaching an… economics class, an introductory economics class at that. I don’t do physics! I don’t even do the First Law of Thermodynamics, whatever the hell that is.

    And you said “No, you’re missing my point! (Of course, you hadn’t made your point yet!) The second law is directly relevant to economics!” (I should probably use even more exclamation marks—because that’s how you were speaking, even then!)

    You spoke with such urgency, intensity, and impressive sincerity (no surprise to the readers of this blog, I am sure) that I just had to let you continue—even though I quickly realized I didn’t really have any choice in the matter! “And, the connection to economics is…? I asked. ”

    “It’s the GDP. (No, thank god, you did not say, ‘It’s the GDP, stupid!’) The GDP takes energy. More GDP requires more energy.”

    This was absolutely true; that’s what 250+ years of industrialization had meant—replacing animal energy with lots more mechanical/electric/chemical energy, to create more and more GDP . I was also impressed that you said “GDP” and not “GNP”. “And… so…?” I asked somewhat sarcastically, thinking I was faced with yet another scarce-resources-Cassandra wacko! “The problem is… precisely… what? That we’re gonna run out of energy someday?

    And you answered, “The precise problem is the heat. There is also the other problem that we may be running out of fossil fuels, and driving up their price—but that’s only money, that’s not the real problem. The real problem—the REAL problem because it is the UNAVOIDABLE problem—is that a necessary consequence of producing and using more energy is that energy produces heat.” (I am pretty sure you did NOT use the phrase “global warming”.)

    “And…?”

    “And so, the more we use energy, the more the atmosphere will heat up, the more the earth will heat up, and the more the air will get polluted.”

    Well, you convinced me. And, a few days later, I gave over to you the first part of my lecture hour. And, I really felt good doing so.

    And you? You went on to impressing many many others with your sincerity, knowledge, wisdom, and intense interest in the world and desire to make a contribution.

    AND……That’s not all, you now know! It was about 15 years later that I met, fell in love with, and married Andrea Aidells—and then learned that she was your good and admiring friend from Junior High and High School!

    I trust this recollection will bring a sweet smile to your beautiful face.

    Much love—

    –Ernie Nadel

     

    ernie nadel

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 9:38 PM

     

    Dearest Lee,

     

    The journey from May has been thankless unlike the many journeys that have been so successful during the past 64+ years.  From all the words that we receive, you have been strong, determined and willing to move forward as you always have been in the past.  Know that the friendship and association have been superb, even at a distance.

    Now the love has replaced both as you continue to impress all those who surround you.  Know that my thoughts are with you and the good memories surmount those of the present.

    With arms around  (like the sweaters at Emerson),

     

     

     

     

    Marc Rosen

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 6:57 PM

     

    Lee,

    You are an awesomely funny, creative, and intelligent guy.  You are the master of quips!

    If there is anyone who can outhink cancer, it’s you.  We are rooting for you!

    I hope you do get better soon so you can join in Asilomar later this month and at the next PEEC meeting.

    With love,

    John & Arianna

     

    John Boesel

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 6:32 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    Thanks for taking me beyond Sao Paulo and introducing me to the world.

    Hope you are facing hard times with the same positive attitude and sense of humour (and still connecting people).

    Orlando Strambi

     

     

    Orlando Strambi

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 4:35 PM

    I Feel sorry but by other hand i am happy that i have the opportunity to know Lee… Você fará falta!!!!

    Rosemary Keating

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 2:41 PM

    We all know Lee is funny and entertaining and insightful and talented and an amazing bundle of positive energy (which makes the current situation so unbelievable). But there are clever aspects to his generous character that almost go undetected – at least in our professional world. Here is one example. Twenty years ago he took the microphone at a critical meeting of civil servants in Ottawa and told them in his forceful way that they should significantly fund my research on an ongoing basis. I never asked or suggested he say this. It just came out fast – you were never quite sure what Lee is going to say next. But as was often the case, he said it at just the right time. The next year, the major funding started and has continued to this day. I don’t think they would have done it without Lee’s suggestion. He helped a lot of people in this way – a very generous spirit.

    Mark Jaccard

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 11:09 AM

     

    Lee is a bright light in life, and I join the many here who are inspired by his indominitable spirit.  As he has scoured his fields of interest, Lee has charted new maps and aids to navigation annotated with indispensible insight.

    In addition to being a great guide, he is also a relentless motivator.  I love Lee for rattling everyone in a good-natured way to reach for higher potential – a personal practice of continuous agitation!

    Seeing the hundreds of posts honoring his thought-leadership and friendship, I am deeply grateful to his family for sharing Lee’s life generously with all of us.  My thoughts will be with you, reflecting energy from Lee’s bright light.

     

    Holmes Hummel

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 10:59 AM

     

    Hello again Lee

    We just want to tell you that we are glad that we got to see you in Madrid in April, and we wish we could be there with you now.

     

    Much love

    Sally and Miguel

     

     

     

    Sally Raskin

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 8:05 AM

     

    Lee is a stupendous person. He should stay forever with us drinking chardonnay wine like he liked so much. We will have always remembrance of his good way towards life.

    Paulo Custodio

     

     

     

    Paulo Custodio

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 6:39 AM

    Once I invited Lee to become a my contact in LinkedIn. Lee got furious and thought it was some kind of automatic invitation. It took me a while to calm him down. It was very funny! Tell him I like him very much and that I have a lot of respect for his great work towards we becoming a more sustainable society. I will always remembers him as a warm and Beautifull person!

    Wagner Colombini

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 5:13 AM

     

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    We are preparing a web-based text on energy and sorely missing Lee’s presence, both substantively and personally.  Lee has been a major actor in the energy field for all our careers and a major personality in the field as well.  We have fond memories of our interactions going far back into the 70s on both accounts for some of us.  Indeed, among the few resources brought here to this meeting is Lee’s 1992 CambridgeUniversity book Energy Efficiency and Human Activity, the classic of its field.

     

     

    Lee represents a force of nature – smart, dedicated, innovative, energetic, generous, and immensely talented both in science and music, as well as being a poliglot and humorist.

     

    We raise our glasses to our close friend and colleague and send our warmest wishes to him and his family.

     

     

     

    Arnulf Grubler

    Reinhard Haas

    Naki Nakicenovic and Susie Riley

    Keywan Riahi

    Hans-Holger Rogner

    Kirk Smith

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    Kirk Smith

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011 3:22 AM

     

    Lee,

    you are incredible!  Keep it up!  We think of you all the time.

    un abrazo muy fuerte

    Sally and Miguel

     

    Sally Raskin

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 10:22 PM

    I’m with you (all) at every moment.

    We love you,
    Dick (and Adele)

    Richard and Adele Evidon

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 10:19 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    You not only offered important insights on energy, you exuded tons of it.  Thank you for being a great colleague.

    Larry Goulder

     

    Larry Goulder

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 8:52 PM

     

    My dear friend Lee & family!

    So many wonderful memories, stimulating discussions, shared podiums in cities around the world. I’ll never forget our celbratration of my 40th birthday in East Berlin and 50th in Mexico City.  You challenged us all, and because of your passion for data and keeping us honest, plus your zest for life, you were a joy to be with!! You inspired me and so many others. We will carry on your life’s work.

    The legacy you leave in your daughters, Lisa and Julie, is priceless.  Thank you …. knowing you enriched my life in so many ways.

     

     

    Dan Sperling

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 8:03 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Thank you very much indeed for fantastic 7 years, Lee. It was honor for me to share your hours and most of all I really enjoyed many discussions with you. May peace be with you.

    Iwao

    Iwao Matsuoka

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 7:13 PM

    Dear Lee, Lisa and family,

    I wish you strength, courage and love at this great time of transition. Lee will always be with us in spirit. Thank you for sharing your lives and your hearts with us at this difficult time.

    Lee, thank you for your many gifts and talents. You will be sorely missed and remembered fondly by many.

    Peaceful journey,

    Paula Wetzel

    Paula Wetzel

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 7:07 PM

    Dear Agneta, Lisa, and Julia,

    It’s time to let you know that you and Lee have been in my thoughts since Gabrielle forwarded Julia’s email.  I’m so sorry he is leaving us. Bert and I always enjoyed our encounters with him.

    Much love,

    Genevieve

    Genevieve Dreyfus

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 5:44 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I’m just coming back from China, and heard about your news. Hope you’re feeling better now. It was so nice to see you everyday in the GMS office,  and talked with you. I really appreciate everything you did for us.

    Best wishes to you and your family!

    Yujiang

    Yujiang Mou

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 5:06 PM

    I saw Lee yesterday and also spoke with Agneta. I lost a lot of sleep last night thinking of Lee as I saw him at the hospital.  I’m very very sad.  We are about to lose a truly unique person who in his own way touched all of his many friends and colleagues.  I’ve experienced all too many deaths of family and friends but for some reason this one brings forth the most emotions.  I guess Lee had a special way of “getting to” many of us.  The world will have a very large hole in it soon when he is no longer with us.

    My best wishes to Lee’s family at this terrible time.  You’ve shown the same grace and understanding that it took to be with Lee during his life!  All my love.

    Mark

    Mark Levine

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 5:00 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Thank you for all you have given to so many.  You are a wonderful person and we are thinking of you and your family now.

    Love, Leigh

    Leigh Johnson

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:58 PM

    Loving thoughts to you and the family, Lisa, from far away in Australia.  Lee co-authored a paper that was published in March in the journal I edit (“Road and Transport Research”).  Was it his last, I wonder?  We had an exchange over some data in the paper that I queried, a point he conceded although he remained firm on other aspects of what I put to him.  Typically, his last email started “Hate to argue with you, but…”

    Like I said before, I wish we had actually met at some stage of our 20-year association via email.  He will be hard to replace, but you will have memories.  And there will always be rainbows.  Peace be with you.

    Ray Brindle

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:43 PM

    Till Lee,

    tack för din inspiration, ditt arbete och för skratten. Samt för att du öppnade dörrarna till mig här på Stanford. Det är tomt utan dig…

    Till resten av familjen all styrka i dena svåra stund. Mina tankar är med er!

    Frances

    Frances Sprei

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:20 PM

    So sad.

    Peace be with you and your family.

    I will still await the all too familiar response when traveling:

    “Lee was just here”

    Ed

    Ed Vine

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:16 PM

    Lee:

    Peace and love to you, my friend for 35 years, my colleague, and my intellectual stimulation.

    Jim Sweeney

    Jim Sweeney

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:09 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Wishing lots of peace and love to you and your family.

     

    Mark Delucchi

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 4:09 PM

    My heart and prayers are with you Lee, Agneta, Lisa and Julia. May you enjoy peace and love in these precious moments. There is so much satisfaction to be had in reflecting on the profound and enjoyable life that Lee has lived.

    Sarah Chadwick

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 2:25 PM

    Lee, I am thinking about you, so very glad we were able to reconnect in recent years.  Also remembering that when I was playing the Brahms First Concerto with the UC orchestra all those years ago you got so excited you left your grandfather’s beloved aviator’s helmet under the seat in Hertz Hall.  I’ll keep that with me.  Nothing is lost.  Thank you for researching my grandfather’s grave in Shanghai – the old Jewish cemetery turned out to be right under the hotel where you were staying.  Nothing is lost.
    Always your friend,
    Claudia Stevens

    claudia stevens

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 1:57 PM

    Whenever I think of Lee, I hear jazz music.  Pretty cool.  And to be that guy who does that in the brains of people wandering out in the world — very cool.

    I also have clear images of Lee energetically holding down an entire section of the TRB poster hall — manning three or so posters at once.
    And then there are the quiet times in the basement of the dismal UCTC annex staring at my computer only to be startled out of my routine by a playful gadfly question shot suddenly from the doorway, provoking my neurons to fire up, take a sharp turn from what they were doing, and go along for the ride.  Good stuff.

     

    Brett Williams

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 11:46 AM

     

    Lee,

    You are much loved and revered. Deservedly. Your special genius touches all who come in contact with you. Your sojourn in Paris was special; for you, for those who worked with you (even those you worked for, had to work with you!).and those who just dropped by. You were the first ‘Visiting Scholar’ at the IEA; I don’t think I ever told you that it nearly didn’t happen; the head was still adjusting to the whole climate and energy tension and the prospect of having this bushy-haired bearded guy from Berkeley was, well, just a step too far and fast for the place. The ’Scandies’ were leading the push (of a very conservative agency at the time) for more work on energy efficiency. I said that by having you inside the tent, it would take the pressure off.  I never let on your Scandinavian lnks. The rest is history.

    Thinking of you and, yes, we will go up into Larch Valley above Lake Louise.

    As ever,

     

    Bob Skinner

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 10:12 AM

     

    Best wishes from Lynn Catzman, formerly Kaplan and all the Toronto gang. I saw Lynn last October and she was her usual vibrant self.

     

    Amy

     

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 10:03 AM

    Rhonda Rundle says hello. She remembers crashing on a floor in Paris in 1968 when we went to pick up the old Mercedes which we then drove to  Sweden where we met Agneta!!  Somehow I remember our host’s name was Patrick or Patrice. We drove that car all over Europe. What a riot parking it on a street in France and forgetting to move it on the day the parking side changed. The police would just sit outside and honk until we came and moved it.

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 6:46 AM

    Hi Lee,

    Im still here in Paris–poor me– and I think of you often. I’ll never forget staying with you in your apartment here in the late 90s; it felt like we were dorming together in college and I remember all the bikes stashed around the space. Of course I didn’t dare ride a bike in Paris.
    I’ll be home in a few days (16th) and hope to come by and say hello as soon as my jet lag allows.
    Much love and happy memories from Paris.
    John

     

    John Harris

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 12:51 AM

    Mr. Meter

    You truly have added to my Berkeley experience. I’ve told so many people about your genius for languages, your amazing ability to remember detailed energy usage statistics from the 1970s, your YouTube video of your jazz band playing Take Five, and going with you to Paul Ehrlich’s New Years Eve party in 2007.  Carey and I gave you a hard time about that afterward (it was on the quieter side for two single women in their 30s), but I’m glad I was able to meet the famous man behind The Population Bomb, and his wife makes delicious chili!
    I also had a great time house and cat sitting, even monkeying with the darn sprinkler each day to get the stubborn can to come out of hiding and race back into the house.
    And then there was the never ending BPC paper. You’re right that “there’s a paper there”, especially now with the rumors that some members of Congress are going to vote against the federal gas tax when it expires!? Do you remember our Swedish interns, Mustafah and …I can’t remember the other student’s name. They adored you. Jenny Day said they talked about you all night each night when they went back to her apartment after being on campus with you. All that data they collected and interpreted for the Sweden chapter!
    I have new shoulder exercises from my PT, “The Thrower’s Ten”, and I’m trying to do them each day so I don’t have to see Dr. Eppley again, as much as we both liked him.
    I hope to see you tomorrow or this weekend.
    Carrie (the Mak one, not the Mc one).

     

    Carrie Makarewicz

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 10:43 PM

    Lee,
    Reading the many wonderful notes to you causes me to want to write a few words too.  It’s been a great thing to be able to spend time with you these past few weeks.  Your smile remains as infectious as ever.  And the stories go on without end.

    It’s so wrong for you to be laid up in the hospital while others are free to run loose and make all kinds of trouble.  I understand that even a healthy Schipper could not do anything about the idiocy in Congress, but you could at least give us a running commentary.

    It’s still true that more people ask me about how you are doing than I have time to answer!  It just ain’t the same with you out of action.

    Speaking for all the people who have expressed care and concern, we all wish the best for you.

    Mark

    Mark Levine

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 6:51 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Kari and I were very sorry to hear about your illness. I enjoyed the opportunity to see you and Agneta (if only briefly) in December. You are a great mentor who has given so very much to so many. Plus you taught me a thing or two about Furtwangler and (better) Verdi’s operas.

    My thoughts are with you and your family!!

     

    Rich Howarth

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 4:28 PM

     

    Hej Lee!

    Lisa says that you’d love to hear an anecdote. But you are the one who remembers! And you learn fast. You learned Swedish in zero time.

    Once upon a time, back in the sixties you drove a green Mercedes from Mönsterås up to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Stockholm where you got a parking ticket. You complained, of course, in English (they felt sorry for the poor American), and did not have to pay the fine. But your greatest complaint was that you did not get a chance to speak Swedish.

    Another car anecdote: A summer day in Berkeley in 1979, walking somewhere near Chez Panisse, you suddenly shouted: “you are too big for that car”. A friend of yours drove by in a Morris Minor! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

     

     

    Svante is busy working on his Django Festival (www.sdrs.se) which will take place on September 3. Biel Ballester will participate this year, the same Biel who was engaged to play the background music in Vicki Christina Barcelona.

     

     

     

    Vi tanker mycket på dig Lee och hoppas på det bästa!

     

    Kram,

    Helene o Svante

     

     

    Helene Jonsson Nyman

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 3:07 PM

    Hi Lee:
    Don’t know why but I thought about Camp Arowhon days, all those years ago. Maybe some of these memories visit you from time to time. Lot of water under the bridge since the 1950′s. Arowhon is still going strong, several generations later. Hang on – still need to have colour war and the “marathon”.

    Ted Schipper

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 1:52 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    Do you remember the trip - you, Agneta and I - from Denmark to Vienna in an old Mercedes that you bought in Sweden.Somewhere on a German autobahn, you suddenly said, with a strange hollow voice: ”the brakes … the brakes!”. You could notslow down and we had a problem. You had to let the car runningslow by itself until there was an exit. But - miracle - at the endof the exit - in a small town - there was a Mercedes dealer. It was closed, so we slept in the car at night, but the next daythey fixed the brakes.
    After a week in Vienna - as I recall - all the Americans rushedback home because they were going to watch the first moon landing on television. All the best to you from Copenhagen.
    sincerely
    Jens Jørn

     

    Jens Jørn Gjedsted

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 1:09 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    Donna and I have great memories of our time in Paris as your colleague.  i still have the Joe DiMaggio chronicles that you enjoyed so much when you were house sitting the apartment in the 16th.  You are in our thoughts and prayers.

    Guy Caruso

     

    Guy Caruso

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 1:06 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I am rooting for you, sending you lots of hope and love. I know you will find the strength to pull through!
    With love,

     

    Mark Delucchi

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 9:51 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Maybe not your closest friend but still one of the older ones. I still remember that funny fellow showing up in the Danish Energy Agency in the late ’80es. Always being at the edge of new thinking about efficiency and then playing music as well. Not what I would have expected from a professor. And then the story about e-mail, a strange way in which you did not have to use fax but could send messsages electronically and short after also attach files to the message! That was really something, that I had never heard about before.

    Then after after 20 years we met again in Copenhagen at a conference on electric cars. Your name was on the speakers list, I just participated, but as you saw me you said: Hej Claus, det er laenge siden! Remembering other persons names after 20 years whitout having had any close relation of any kind – that was great. Lee, I wish you all the best and thanks for your kind way of always giving room for and involving others. Claus

     

    Claus Lewinsky

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 9:58 PM

    Lee -

    Been thinking of you a lot. Leaving for Boston this Saturday for the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference. I will be moderating the Rebound Panel with David Goldstein, Skip Laitner and David Owen as speakers. Thanks for all of your suggestions. I would have had you on the panel …. But we do have your input from the Rebound Workshop in DC where  you provided your input, as well as your input for Jim Sweeney and Skip. I will report back later, and you can respond. It might be videotaped and I will make sure you get the link.

    Onwards, Ed

    Ed Vine

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 5:36 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I am sorry to hear that you are not feeling well.  I know that you are going to get better really soon because you promised I could present next semester (MS&E class)! :)
    Wishing you a speedy recovery!

    Best,
    Dufie Addo (Nana from Ghana) :)

    Dufie Addo

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 4:05 PM

     

    Lee!

    Ah, those strong days in Paris. “To strive, to search, to find and not to yield”

    Marija and I are with you. We want you out here now.

    Marija and Clas-Otto

     

     

     

    Clas-Otto Wene

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 3:40 PM

    Lee, it was good to see you yesterday and to talk a bit about bike riding and running in olden times. I had only found out late last week from a mutual friend that you were in the hospital. When I mentioned a recent New Yorker article about the Stanley Jevons discussion, you immediately jumped in, in typical Schipper fashion, with the comment, “Let’s not go there!” That just tells me that you are itching to get out of the hospital and back into the fray. Everyone in the energy analysis and economics community wants you back as soon as possible,

    Tom Burns

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 3:11 PM

     

    Lee,

    I heard so many wonderful work you have done for PEEC and PIE.  There are still a lot of things in this community that we can rely upon your expertise and experiences. Hope you get well soon and I look forwarding to working with you!

     

    Teresa Tang

     

     

     

    Teresa Tang

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 2:52 PM

     

    Lee

    Have been thinking about all my Lee interactions in the last 5-7 odd years - has been in itself a rich and rewarding experience for me – from your gigs at Asilomar, to the energy that intensity that defined a number of CAI Asia conferences, the vitality you brought to the transforming transportation conferences over the years…..

    No anecdotes would do – regardless of how much I would like to bring a smile to your face – but just a expression of thanks for how much you have enriched our lives our work and the sector – forging the worlds of urban transport, international development and environmental/energy concerns like few others have – So love two elements of your work.  First your passion for for thinking about, doing and being involved in lots of things – one never knows what you will learn about in Lee’s salons but you can be sure you will come away having learnt something new, met new interesting and engaging people, and been exposed to ideas that you will spend a lot more time thinking about tomorrow!  Second, I love the way you synthesize – bridging the micro to the macro – I went to a Lee salon last TRB after a relatively long time – and came out of it licking my lips – for the wonderful connections between the global estimates of this and that, and the bottom-up initiatives at the most local level and the effortless way all of it was stitched together with the Lee signature of analytics, passion, urgency, positivism and humor….Look forwaard to your next salon – Asilomar, TRB, CAI…wherever!!

    Best

    Shomik

     

    Shomik Mehndiratta

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 2:21 PM

     

    Greetings Lee,

    I recently learned that you have been ill.  I love your insightful contributions at our Stanford PEEC and PIE meetings and look forward to seeing your return.

    Every best wish,

     

     

    Jay Precourt

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 1:38 PM

    Lee — We have just learned of your illness. All of us at the Bipartisan Policy Center send along our care and concern to you.  We are continuing to follow the complicated and, I would guess, fairly useless machinations of Congress on reauthorizing the federal surface transportation programs — at what funding level and whith what programmatic reforms, who knows?  We continue to “educate” and advocate, talking about those issues of mobility and sustainability that have characterized your contributions to this field for so long.  We’ll do our best to continue the Schipper model and tradition, and we all look forward to welcoming you back to the battle.  All the best.  Emil

    Emil Frankel

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 12:19 PM

     

    Good morning Lee and family

    Just saw an interesting note on recent research findings in Israel that may be of help:  http://israel21c.org/health/slowing-pancreatic-cancer

    We’re all rooting for you Lee!!! You’re a fantastic, wonderful human and we want to see you get well!!!!

     

     

    Rafael Friedmann

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 9:21 AM

    Hi Lee

    As Lisa was mentioning that you enjoy reading anecdotes I thought I’d remind you of that great night in Copenhagen (“Hopenhagen” then) when you managed to drum up a group of jazz musicians who you knew from years back, to play in a small cafe somewhere in the center of town. It took us (Bert, Holger, Ko Sakamoto, Drew Kojak, and I) ages to find it because we never suspected that you’d be playing in such a hip (and hidden) cellar. The atmosphere was great, and you got the crowd laughing with jingle bells improvisations in the mids of a serious jazz tune. In hindsight we realized that you had counted on us coming to see the gig and staying until the end (or you hadn’t but were just betting on good luck) because how were we going to get the vibraphone out of the cellar? In the end we managed to put it onto something that looked like a trolley and push it in the lift. I think you were stuck with that thing in the lift, while we all took the stairs. You with the other guys then dragged it out of the lift. We covered it with a black cloth so as to not damage the vibraphone and avoid that someone would be tempted to put their tongue on one of the pipes to see if it would come off again (it was soooo freezing cold that we were almost hoping for a moment of global warming there). People were giving us wondering looks (which you are used to but we weren’t) as we rattled the trolley over the cobble-stoned streets in the direction of the hotel. One of you on each corner, and I behind it as a mourning woman with a black hat. We were all laughing and shouting: “Climate Deal coming through!” The next night you managed to convince Bert again to help you drag it to the station to play when the Climate Train would arrive. Some funky Danish minister with red hair arrived in leather jacket on a motorbike, but of course you playing the vibraphone there with full energy was so much cooler!!!
    All the best, Sophie

     

    Sophie Punte

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 4:41 AM

     

    Kaere Lee<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

    Det goer mig ondt at hoere, at du er blevet syg. Jeg mindes med glaede og taknemmelighed din medvirken og store indsats i forbindelse med opstarten af ECEEE, besoeg i Berkeley og Paris og de mange Summer Studies.

     

    Det var ogsaa dig, der taalmodigt kaempede med at overbevise os andre, mindre progressive, om emailens lyksaligheder, da det var helt nyt og ukendt for mange af os – og jeg skal love for, at du har faaet ret.

    Tak for din altid positive indstilling og smittende livsglaede.

     

     

     

    Kaerlig hilsen
    Iben (DEA – Energistyrelsen i Danmark)

     

     

    Iben Spliid

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 3:55 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    I have just logged on to the site and am very happy to read Lisa’s post that you’re feeling perkier - that’s great news!

    I don’t know if I ever told you this, but the name of the email subfolder where I store your messages has always been called Mr. Meter!  From time to time, I reread some of the email exchanges and many of them are so hilarious that I just fall about laughing!

    Anyway, ít’s mid-morning here in Paris and the middle of the night for you so you’ll hopefully be having some restful slumber.  And remember what we Brits say … keep your pecker up!

    (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/217400.html)

    Love,

    Anne

     

    Anne Mayne

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 1:40 AM

    Hi Lee,

    I’m glad to hear from Lisa’s post that you had a better day today. I watched the Colbert Report and thought you would like to know that the CARS have released a new album…

    Hope tomorrow is a feel good day for you too!

    Thinking of you every day,

    Leigh Johnson

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 7:59 PM

    Hey Lee. Do you remember when you were in the sixth grade and some jerks would tease me when I walked to school ? You left early to be a crossing guard or something and I had to walk alone. These kids knew a geek when they saw one and they really laid into me. Then one day you walked with me and brought friends and scared the crap out of them it was awesome. I was so proud. Thanks !!!!!

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 6:55 PM

    Hi Lee–

    Here’s the link to your puzzle-solving moment of fame with Will Shortz for all interested. You never cease to surprise. Tell us, did you ever have a postcard read by Garrison Keillor?  I did — wrote it in my tent in the jungle of Nepal and somehow instead of being turned into cud by the cows munching on castaway mail tossed into the field (next door to the Kathmandu general post office), it actually made its way overseas and reached Prairie Home Companion.

     

    Pam Deuel Meyer

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 12:09 PM

    Lee,

    I just wanted to let you know how much of an inspiration you are to me.
    You always had time for my scattered conversations at Berkeley, my need for advice, and you never failed to introduce me hosts of interesting friends.

    It meant so much to me that you were supportive of my move to Brazil, when most other people told me that I was crazy!

    I stilll haven’t forgotten that someday we’re going to solve the motorcycle problem and create cities for them instead of for cars….

    Miss you and love you lots,
    Brittany Montgomery

    Brittany Montgomery

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 11:13 AM

     

    Dear Lee:

    I remember being introduced to the Wild Man of ERG at orientation 30 years ago, trekking up to LBL to pester you and others for a job, and other meetings in unexpected places over the years.  Thanks so much, “Mr. Meter”, for all of your help over the years on all of my crazy projects that sorely needed a dose of well-grounded, real data.  Your help on modeling of Japan’s energy future was particularly important.   Now, some of those of us who you have trained and encouraged see a post-tsunami turning of the tide in energy policy, in Japan and elsewhere, and will continue to stand on your broad shoulders as we work to bring a sensible-energy future into focus.

    My Best Regards,

    –David von Hippel

     

    David von Hippel

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 10:28 AM

    Hi Lee,

    Thanks for welcoming me to ERG at Prof Norgaard’s house party — sitting there on the deck, hearing your dissertations on a number of “Lee Schipper” topics, made clear I was in a different (and wondrous) world indeed! Plus, in very rapid Swedish. I know I speak for many of us younger cohorts when I say you have been a genuine inspiration for our own work.
    Also, reading the other notes, I enjoyed reading Gene Rochlin’s recollections of your exploits, and am inspired now to find a recording of this alleged Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle.
    Cheers,
    Nate Hultman

     

    Nate Hultman

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 6:00 AM

     

    To Dear Lee

    I remember how we ‘met’ down in your office on the second floor of the IEA … I was asking how you managed to find things in the countless piles on your desk … and you had asked me what the dressing was on my shoulder and I told you I had come off my bike having ridden through an unexpected patch of sand in the Bois de Boulogne!  “You’re a biker” you asked.  And thus a wonderful friendship was born.  There are heaps of fond memories of our escapades out on the bikes up to the Fôret de Meudon or the Fôret de Fausses Reposes and beyond and of evenings ‘co-cooking’ either just the two of us, a handful of people or a huge number of ‘convives’ who would attend and the hours we’d all spend laughing and hearing your endless anecdotes about wine, food, one-star restaurants, classical music, biking, trips around the world, energy, astrophysics, astronomy … the list is endless.  You never stopped talking and we all laughed that we could generate enough energy from you to run the 16th arrondissement!  Cooking played an important part of your life in Paris … I remember your telling me that your mother couldn’t believe it, but you put on one of your best spreads ever when she visited you in Paris, which you shared with about 30 others!  I bet you still have the cast iron casserole dish I gave you (I had lent it you when you first arrived but felt that you used it to such perfection that it naturally belonged to you! … oh, the pot roasts!) … and I remember giving you a ‘toque‘ for your birthday which you wore each time you cooked for us all! (see photo).

    And then there was the memorable trip in 1999 up to northern France to watch the eclipse (although it turned cloudy!) … and then the end of that year when, after a calm Christmas Eve feast together, we called each other the next day to recount our respective experiences of the storm which wrecked the woodland which rendered biking jolly difficult (for me at least …you somehow found a way to still venture out!).

    Thanks to you, I discovered countless classical artists through our trips to the Théâre des Champs Elysées … Evgeny Kissin, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne-Sophie Mutter to name but a few (and the way we giggled when you insisted on finding your own seat in the theatre – because, owing to your ‘abonnement‘, your seat was the same each time you went but the French ‘ouvreuse‘ wasn’t at all amused!).  And remember the wonderful trip you, Debra and I made to the Jazz Festival – Jazz à Vienne, .  During your time here in Paris, we certainly all had such wonderful times together.

    All of your friends here in Paris never knew where you got your energy from … today, you’re fighting your toughest fight and your friends are counting on you to derive the strength to get through this … we’re all with you Lee.

    With much love from your friend and ‘co-biker’,

    Anne

     

    Anne Mayne

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 4:19 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

     

    This is Danang Parikesit from Indonesia. I always know you as a person with a passion to ask for other people’s presentation materials :) :)

    Last time we met in Jakarta at obviously a transport seminar organized by CAI-ASIA… I cant remember when was it. What I did remember was you were so happy because you were able to ride on police’s car escorting all delegates to the airport Soekarno Hatta Jakarta. You said it was a remarkable experience. I think not many foreigner wants to do that.

    All the best for you and regards from your Indonesian friends

     

    Danang Parikesit – Chairman The Indonesian Transportation Society

     

     

    Danang Parikesit

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 1:13 AM

     

    Leon,

    It’s one thing to tell people stories about Berkeley and quite another to be able to share those memories with someone who is a huge part of the most meaningful.  And the not so meaningful:  One night after we first met, I can’t remember where we were but there was a piano I had never played.  I sat down and played some obscure form of a A chord.  “You’re a piano player.” you said.  There was a question on my face.  “You played an A to check the tune of the piano.”  I had but it was unconscious.  In that moment you say what I didn’t see, you knew me better than I knew me.  A Lee moment.

    Another night, years later, Agneta and Patsy and you and I were eating dinner, a train whistle sounded in the distance.  “E flat” you said. It was a total throw away.  And then you started to muse about symphonies that began with an E flat (Mahler’s 8th, I think, but  I can’t hear it now.)  It was another Lee moment.  You probably have no idea how many of those moments I hold on to.

    Leon, I always appreciated your mind’s ability to synthesize and create.  I’ve always admired your knowledge, courage, confidence, speed and size.  You are a very big man.

    Love,

     

     

     

     

    Mick Gallinson

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 7:21 PM

    Through all the crazy times in Berkeley 60′s and 70′s, through the pleasures of physics, and then into the passion of energy and environment I have loved and admired your energy and humor. I only wish we had been able to see you more over the past few years. Pam and I will never forget the great times together with you.
    – Mel

    Mel Simmons

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 3:23 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I, like so many others, have found your work to be an inspiration – honest, provocative, and filled with humor in ways that help communicate important messages. I found many a meeting greatly enriched by your presence over the years. From my own hospital bed (recovering from ankle surgery and now pneumonia), I’m wishing you courage in your efforts to get well and looking forward to our paths crossing many times again.

    Best wishes,

    Michael Replogle

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 1:59 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Since Emerson days, you’ve topped my list as the #1 most intellectually gifted, multi-faceted talent I knew.  Fifty years later, you’re still #1 among the most gifted souls I’ve ever met.  What means most is how you’ve spent your life sharing your gifts as a visionary educator, improving the quality of life for people throughout the world.

    Since our Emerson-Uni group connected nearly five ago, YOU are the friend I’ve chatted with most.  Sharing stories about peak musical experiences with you is a joy because you Get It!   Music has the most magical healing power…I’m sure you have favorite masterworks that have always inspired you.  Listen now to that music that nurtures you, that brings you joy…and know how very loved you are, how very much your friends care about you.

    Many healing hugs,

     

    Sherry (Laughlin) Nelson

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 1:14 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Rest well and gather your strength. I look forward to many Asilomars with you leading the band!
    With love,

     

    Mark Delucchi

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 1:04 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    From a friend of Your daughter I heard that You were not feeling too well. We havent seen each other for years but I often think about You and all wonderful crazy things we did together in Berkely and S.F.

    I was in Rome a couple of months ago and talked to Andrea a couple of times,but never met him. Of course we -talked about You!!!

    Take care!! Lots of love from Your April-7thfriend Agneta

     

    Agneta Björkman

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 12:24 PM

     

    Kjære Lee,

    As Hanne said below we have so many great memories of time that we’ve spent together. The list of countries and places are long. What fun it has been to travel with you and spread indicators to the world! Like enjoying a beer in a hot tub in New Zeeland after you had explained the Prime Minister that our analysis showed that NZ was a “beer economy on a champagne lifestyle” (which made the front pages in NZ the day after). Or stacking up wine on the many visits at Salon des Vins in Paris and not being sure if we had found all the cases we had paid for during a long day of tasting. Or having so much fun touring Ireland that we missed our flight!

    When Hanne and I arrived in Paris you invited us to stay in your two (!) apartments while we were looking for a permanent place. The only downside was to have our electricity and gas consumption displayed in your graphs later on with Mr. Meeter’s comment “this peak here was when I had Scandinavians staying in my apartment”…  I was happy to see that you are still engaged in explaining the mysteries of Norwegian energy use when you in May sent me an email frustrated over how difficult it was to split Norwegian road fuel consumption into cars and trucks.

    “In-office” work with you in Berkeley and Paris was never dull either. Long discussions of Laspeyres vs Divisia indices, frustration over sloppy data, the joy of discovering a new data source separating space heating from other electricity use and not to mention finding the optimal itinerary for the next mission! You made an important impact on the IEA-analysis – it is safe to say that you won the fight against straight lines!

    Now you fight a lot tougher fight – but with all your energy and enthusiasm I am sure you will win it!

    God bedring! Beste hilsninger til deg, Agneta, Julia og Lisa.

    Fridtjof

     

    Fridtjof Unander

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 11:07 AM

     

    Thinking of you, Lee, and sending caring thoughts to you and all your family.  You’d be pleased to see the explosion in bicycling for transport around DC in the last couple of years.  But gravity matters — I think there’s more cyclists from your side of Cleveland Park (foot of the hill) than mine (a couple hundred feet up that steep grade), especially in this summer’s crazy heat!

    Be well,

     

    Heather McGray

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 8:52 AM

     

    Good morning Lee!  Allison has found an internet cafe and posted what she is doing in Bangalore. Studying environmentalism! Kind of a family thing……….  It’s athttp://travelsofahowe.wordpress.com/

     

     

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 8:40 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    On behalf of the Unander family I would like you to know that we are thinking of you.

    We have wonderful memories of you in Paris, Cannes and even the Alps when we were skiing or biking with you, BBQ’ing in Champ de Mars, dining at Michelin-restaurants or Chez Lee with Anne, Benoit and Patricia, Darlah, Isabelle and all the others.

    As everyone else I have the same impression of an amazing and genius man with lots of humor.

    Please get well soon, Lee. The world need you.

    Lots of love from Norway,

    Fridtjof and Hanne

     

     

    Hanne Kristine Unander

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011 12:19 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I’ve been thinking of you very often since Richard Leavitt started sending update emails. I’ve been having fond memories of our years in Junior High and High school.

    I remember that you would organize wonderful trips to the Hollywood Bowl to see various performances and concerts. A group of us would go by bus and I remember you carried a small notebook and would be writing something down while we were listening to the musicians. When I asked what you were writing, you showed me and it was musical notes, not words. I was very impressed and surprised that you could do that. I still appreciate your introducing me to classical music and jazz and we probably heard something like the Boston Pops too. I remember watching you play the vibraphone and perform with your Jazz band, probably in LA and in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Berkeley.

    One more early memory is visiting you at your house and asking about a stack of political flyers. You explained that your mother was involved in a political protest campaign. I asked “What was she campaigning against?” And you answered: “She and her group wanted to abolish pay-toilets.” I think of that when I travel and often wish that her campaign had international success – especially when I don’t have the right national coins in my pocket.

    I remember talking with you after the Oakland Hills fire in 1991 and you were very helpful to me in trying to decide whether and when we should move back into our house with our 9 year old daughter. I was concerned about the ash and air pollution in our charred neighborhood.

    Ernie and I visited you in Paris with our daughter Alissa; we enjoyed hanging out, exploring your neighborhood and hearing stories about your work and life there.

    You are in my thoughts and prayers and I’m sending wishes for your healing and comfort.

    Love, Andrea

     

    Andrea Aidells

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 11:25 PM

    Lee
    Jan just sent me a note about your cancer. Tough news but you have the strength of hundreds behind you.

    You invented the concept of multi-tasking well before we knew the phrase. My recollection is you typing away on the Selectric, chattering in Swedish to someone, listening to an opera in yet another language and interrupting everyone to tell us what was going on in the opera!

    And there is my fading memory of you and John Dingel, back when he had power, wandering about a garden and you idly wondering, in a provocative manner, whether the fruits were “dingleberries”. Where did you get the balls?!

    My vinyl collection still includes the Phunky Physicist which gets a spin now and again.

    You are a great influence on many, many people and I’ve always considered it good fortune to work with you early in my career.

    Best regards and my thoughts are with you.
    Jack Whittier

    Jack Whittier

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 9:26 PM

     

    Hi Lee

    Thanks to ICT news circulates quickly and gives us all a chance to check in with you.  I have no clever anecdotes — I just want to thank Lee for sharing ideas and international data and getting many of us to actually do comparative international research on travel and vehicle use.

    My fondest memory is our visit in LA — I think you were visiting your mother, and we escaped for a long walk.  We covered a lot of territory, both physically and intellectually, but what sticks in my mind is our discussion of junk food and the health of the next generations.  And this was before our colleagues began to claim that cars make you fat!

    My best wishes to you and your family

    Gen Giuliano

     

    genevieve giuliano

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 8:47 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I’ve started and re-started writing this several times now – both for the reasons you might be guessing as well as that most of the memories that are popping into my mind are silly (or off-colour). I’ve decided that I might as well embrace it, though.

    Debunk cash for clunkers…act like kids when the new PHEVs roll up. Write on Latin America for translation into Japanese…watch a Norwegian TV clip poking fun at the Danish language. Account for the emissions effects of the hot soak…get a cold start from yet another flood, despite the moat. Discuss the latest proposal from Amory Lovins…share the latest, uh, Christmas card from Paul Ehrlich. (Not to mention your fake convention sleuthing and conference call fashion tips)

    Ultimately, though, that just speaks to what a great person to work for you are. And while I may be worrying Betty if she’s reading this, we did put out hundreds of report pages, thousands of lines of code, and, dare I say, nearly a million spreadsheet cells of data and mod…errr*…portrayal tools.

    *again, for Betty’s benefit

    Sorry we couldn’t meet up in Vancouver. I didn’t get the chance to show you our fantastic new separated bike lanes, so hopefully you’re set up for a video:http://spacingvancouver.ca/2011/08/04/1703/

    All my best,

    Brian Gould

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 8:34 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Wishing you a fast recovery and a quicker jump back into your work. You always seem to have a knack for rooting out phising scams. Having the opportunity to work with you in my former position was a privilege.

    Hoping for the best,

    - Eric Deskin

    Eric Deskin

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 5:29 PM

    For some bizarre reason I decided to let my roomate in college give me the nick name Yogi.  For one year I told all my friends to call me Yogi.  After a while I decided it was stupid and I went back to the name I was given.  No one has called me Yogi in 45 years except Lee,  who still insists on using the old nick name.  I figure the reason is he is only one whose memory is still so sharp that he remembers such trivia from 45 years ago.  I am not upset and actually it only helps to increase my respect for Lee.  I don’t think I have ever known anyone whose memory comes close to the gifted memory that Lee has.  Fortunately everyone else I still know from 45 years ago no longer remembers anything from then including my weird nick name.

    Get better soon so I can tax your memory for trivia.
    Fond regards.

     

    bruce aidells

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 5:26 PM

    For some bizarre reason I decided to let my roomate in college give me the nick name Yogi.  For one year I told all my friends to call me Yogi.  After a while I decided it was stupid and I went back to the name I was given.  No one has called me Yogi in 45 years except Lee,  who still insists on using the old nick name.  I figure the reason is he is only one whose memory is still so sharp that he remembers such trivia from 45 years ago.  I am not upset and actually it only helps to increase my respect for Lee.  I don’t think I have ever known anyone whose memory comes close to the gifted memory that Lee has.  Fortunately everyone else I still know from 45 years ago no longer remembers anything from then including my weird nick name.

    bruce aidells

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 4:06 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    You were missed in Stockholm! I look forward to your full recovery and participation in the IAEE conference in Perth next June.

    Take care, mate, and get well soon!

    Cheers,

     

    Ron Ripple

  • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 1:51 AM

    Dear Lee,
    I remember reading some of your articles back when I was an undergrad at Brown and one of my classmates telling me that your daughter had gone there, too, much in the same way that we would discuss which movie star’s offspring was roaming among us plebes.  Perusing this guestbook, it seems that “movie star” is not too far off of a description for your influence in the world.  Imagine my surprise then, when I picked up my phone at ARB this spring to have you on the other end trying to convince me to fund your latest research idea.  Sadly, they don’t let me anywhere near the purse strings, but if that day ever comes I will be sure to stipulate that California’s baseline VMT be named Schipper VMT in your honor!  I will consider the NPR Sunday puzzler as my weekly reminder of this promise.

    Wishing you and your family strength during these difficult times.

    All the best,

    Belinda Chen

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 2:14 PM

     

    Hi Lee! Allison sends her regards from India. She does not have wireless at her hostel so she doesn’t get to the computer that often. She is getting used to the slow pace walking to a wifi cafe stepping over trash and dogs with a cow here and there. Thanks for giving her all the contacts. She travels by rickshaw! The first two weeks was environmental history of Bangalore. Next is a NGO that focuses on women’s issues. Allison says in India they don’t have lines, they have crowds. But women are very accommodating and friendly to her. Her blog is at travelsofahowe.wordpress.org where she articulates her culture shock.Maybe Lisa can read you a post. Josh is at a wedding in Vermont and will be back in Berkeley on Thursday. Pencil him in , Lisa!

    Jessica and Jim are still remembering all that good wine in Paris!!!

    Amy  a/k/a  “Lulu” per Merle

     

     

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 10:30 AM

     

    Lee: Latest update from Paris (France).

    Two articles we reposted  in the last days taking directly from pieces which you shared with us over the last couple of years –Car Crazy: Lee Schipper on the Perils of Asia’s Hyper-Motorization and  Mr. Meter on America’s “Cash for Clunkers” – have attracted more than five hundred readers. You can find them at respectively at and , but I cite them here not so much for you as for your friends who pop in here and who want to read you in action.  That said, what’s the next piece of yours that we should share with the world? Give me a hint.

    And you gotta love this — Finally a mayor who really cares” – which you can see on Streets at . Guy has a nice light touch.

    Thought about you yesterday in a Skype planning session for a weeklong conference in Guadalajara, all about getting some of the cars out of our cities, when I asked if they were going to have a Mariachi band. Which of course brought me right to the Phunky Physicist. So I fished out your BAQ 2008 gig and made it into our Saturday break entry in Streets. Like having you here in person.

    Back to work,

    And as for you: Get well, prove that all doctors are well intentioned quacks. Be yourself Lee.  Don’t screw around too long cause some of us really do need you. I won’t bore you with the long list but that’s the way it is.

    A demain,

    Eric

    eric britton

  • SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 1:14 AM

     

    Dear Lee

    Shocked to hear about your illness. Hope you get well and get back to your energetic self soon! Best wishes,

    Zia/Bangladesh

     

    Zia Wadud

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 7:13 PM

    Hi Lee,
    I’m sadden to hear about your condition but I know you’ll continue fighting. I’m so happy that you not only convinced me to take your class but also work on one of long-term projects. It was really an honor and when I think about my last quarter at Stanford it will be hard not to think of you.

    You’re an amazing individual and I’m glad I got to know you.If you find the energy I’ll always be on SKYPE for you to say hello! Until then… get well my friend.
    Vi hörs

     

    Dave McKenzie

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 5:00 PM

    Hi Lee,

    As with everyone else, I came into shock when I learned you were sick. It was actually when you didn’t reply to an email within a fraction of a second that I knew something was different from before.
    It is very sad to know that you are ill, and in reading your daughter’s updates I think I understand how painful it is to be gathering strength to continue living (I say “I think” because empathy is not enough in these cases, despite having been in a hospital for various reasons and for extended periods a few times myself).
    Regardless of the difficulties you are going through right now, I have the utmost confidence that you will continue defeating the laws of thermodynamics and that you will come even stronger than before once this is over. As everyone who has written in this guestbook, I am writing this to help in giving all the strength you need right now, and hopefully even more. I am sure that the next time I see you it will be to give each other a strong handshake.

    Best regards,

    Carlos Pardo

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 4:22 PM

     

    Hi Lee,

    From another branch of the Schipper family, on behalf of myself and my daughter Shayla, we extend to you our sincere wishes for a speedy recovery.

    Bobby

     

    Robert Schipper

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 4:20 PM

    Dear Lee,

    We live in a world where there is so much to do, and so many interests that stand in the way of progress.  But there are also so many brilliant, dedicated soldiers for progress.  I’m deeply moved at the number of these forces for good who have been inspired, challenged, amused, and angered by you and your vision.
    But to the really important stuff — you will always have a place in my hall of intellectual all-stars for the fastest, most correct, and most humorous responses on the Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle.
    Warmest thoughts,

     

    Chris Field

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 3:20 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    I’m sorry to hear that you are not well.

    I remember well the first presentation I saw you make while we were both at at the IEA in the 1990s. Your enthusiasm was so infectious! While indicators of energy efficiency isn’t necessarily the topic that gets everyone going, your passion and dedication to the issue was obvious – and inspiring for those of us in the audience.

    … and being in the audience for one of your jazz performances (in Copenhagen, I think) was also memorable. In fact, probably the only concert I’ve been to that involves a vibraphone!

    Best wishes to you and your family,

    Jane

     

    Jane Ellis

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 3:09 PM

    Lee:

    I just heard the news – I am thinking about you and wishing you the best.

     

    Jonathan Rubin

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 2:27 PM

    Dear Lee,
    I’ve been trying to type up all my memories of you from those early days when I was a wet behind the ears young professor and you were still an incredibly energetic (and often trying) student through the many years we’ve known each other. I’ll finish it one of these days, but in the meantime, I remember:

    Your physics lab reports, written in pens of many colors, scrawled on different kinds of paper, but always of A+ quality.

    Pouring liquid nitrogen into your vibes to create ‘smoke’ in the hope of getting one of those pictures on the cover of your phunky physicist album.

    Teaching the physics of music and the physics of energy together in Physics 10, ‘physics for the mathematically challenge’ (we had less PC names for it then).

    Your lovely VW bus, “Voven”.

    The energy simulator; first the debacle with PG&E and then your going ahead and building it on your own.

    Our perpetual argument about who was the very first energy information specialist at ERG, hired to try and offload some of the flood of incoming calls to the newly appointed John Holdren during the first of the many energy ‘crunches.’

    Your e-mails, which often raised communication to new standards of Dada art.

    Your kindness and generosity to absolutely everyone, and your inspiration even to those of us whose ability to recall facts and figures could never match yours even on our best days.

    Gene

    gene rochlin

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 2:23 PM

    My dear friend Lee,

    I didn’t know about you health condition – only heard that you were unwell, but I hope you are better and will be on your feet again soon.
    It’s been my good fortune not only to have got to know you during your visits to India, but also been my privilege to have become your friend.
    Through our interactions and email exchanges and reading some of your mails passed on to me, I have learnt to appreciate the not so obvious connections between seemingly diverse issues relating to sustainable transport, equity and political negotiations that are essential part of finding workable solutions.
    I was also happy to discover that we share another love – JAZZ  though I can’t play any instrument well —  let alone something as complicated as the vibraphone. I hope you are listening to jazz as you regain your strength.
    Looking forward to seeing you back in good health and receiving your profound one liner comments on some ongoing email thread.
    Greetings from me and other friends from Pune.
    –
    Sujit

     

    Sujit Patwardhan

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 12:58 PM

    Hi Lee,

    Just read Lisa’s encouraging update. Go Lee!
    Love,

     

    Mark Delucchi

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 12:33 PM

     

    Hi Lee:

    Greetings from balmy and dysfunctional Washington!  Your enthusiasm and knowledge are a tremendous inspiration to so many people around the globe.  You certainly inspired me and taught me much.  My best wishes for a speedy recovery.  Hurry up, because we need you back fighting for a better world!

    Best regards always,

     

     

     

    Bill Vincent

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 12:30 PM

     

    Okay, Lee, compulsion drives me to the following core dump on a few things Lee Schipper:

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    Others will identify with my oft-repeated experience of going to some conference or other and seeing Lee’s name in some session. A blurb about what he claimed he was going to talk about. Interesting stuff, so one had to go.  Enter Lee, always at the last minute, filling the room with some unearthly energy, a stack of transparencies falling out from under his arm (I’m talking the old days).  Sitting on the dais, furiously scribbling on one or more of these slides.  Lee’s turn to talk comes.  His stated topic is something like “Energy use by Swedish home appliances.”  But he has already become bored by this topic and is on to something MUCH more interesting, “Transportation trends in Pakistan,” maybe.  The slides are a work in progress, edited even as he is talking.  What you discovered was, his new topic IS much more interesting—including new stuff and ideas he’s dreamed up only the night before in his hotel room—but amazingly, all backed up by a whole bunch of data he got from god-knows-where.

     

     

    One learned to ignore what the program said Lee would talk about. Didn’t matter.  This drove session organizers crazy.  But the algorithm for attendees became remarkably simple: look to see what session Lee is talking at and just go, knowing you’ll be both vastly entertained and will learn to look at something important in a wholly new way.  Ignore any abstract he submitted—that’s just something he had been thinking about a few weeks ago and is irrelevant to what is flooding through his mind presently.  Just sit back and enjoy the show.

     

     

    As others have remarked, it seems everyone on the planet knows Lee.  If you’re in a group of energy analysts in East Nowhere, you pretty much know what the answer will be to the question, “Do you know Lee Schipper?”  “Dynamo,” “funny,” “fun,” and “good guy” are the words that most often surface in the ensuing conversation. “Did you know he is also a talented musician?” also is virtually inevitable.  Then, it’s on to “let me tell you about the time Lee was…”

     

     

    However, legendary as these traits may be, there is one trait that to me exemplifies the best of Lee Schipper.  Lee, you and I have had differences of perspective on energy efficiency over the years, but here is what I most admire about you: there is a deep intellectual integrity about you.  When you see or hear something that is somehow in conflict with your mental model, your mind does not allow you to simply dismiss it.  A curse, perhaps, but one driven by a deep need to come to terms with what is actually true.  Making you first person to formally gather a group of academics to look at the rebound issue, by way of example.  Get to the bottom of things, even if it disturbs you.  Stick to your intellectual guns and what you know is right, but listen to contrasting views.  The mark of a true scholar.  And a true scholar you are, buddy.  A personal benefit I have derived from this is that you have kept me honest over the years.  Thanks for making me a better, more honest, researcher. Your intellectual integrity is infectious.

     

     

    Love ya, guy.

     

    Harry Saunders

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 10:56 AM

     

    Dear Lee – I am so saddened to learn of your medical condition, and hope you are confortable, and it seems abundantly clear – happily – that you are in the hands of so many caring family and friends.   I was shocked to learn of you illness since you are such a life force in every sense.  I have always treasured rnning into you in the hallway at WRI and after 20 to 30 minutes feeling like I just got the Master’s degree I never got elsewhere.  Your wonderful enthusiasm for your work and your life has always been seamless and such an inspiration for me andso many others.

    I wish you and your family all the best and sincere sympathy at this time.

    Much love and afffection – Robin Murphy

     

    robin murphy

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 9:03 AM

     

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    I was truly concerned to learn about your medical problem, and would like to convey my very best wishes and prayers for your speedy and complete recovery. You have always been a pillar of strength, and at a time like this nothing would be more important than for you to maintain a high level of optimism. That combined with the prayers of so many of your friends and well-wishers I am sure will help greatly.

     

     

     

    So just keep your spirits up and remain as cheerful as you have always been.

     

     

     

    With kind regards,

     

    Yours sincerely,

     

    Patchy

     

     

    Rajendra Pachauri

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 8:59 AM

    Hi Lee:
    Hope you are comfortable and resting well. Wishing you the best.

    Ted & Terri Schipper

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 6:40 AM

     

    Hej Lee,

    Fick höra att din hälsa för närvarande inte är på topp, men vill gärna sända en hälsning från ett somrigt Stockholm och en tillönskan om att du snart återfår dina krafter.

    Lennart Erlandsson

     

    Lennart Erlandsson

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 6:35 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    Greetings from some of the Canadian Schippers. We’re all pulling for you.

    Hope you are more comfortable now. We send our love to you, Agneta and the kids.

    Lionel, Carol and our gang.

     

     

     

    lionel Schipper

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 4:59 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Greetings from crazy Manila! We are extremely sad to hear about your situation. I hope you get better soon as we’re still supposed to talk to you about the “what if’s and asif” and guide us as you have always done before…  I’m quite lucky to have met and worked with you. You know how we always loved your wits and that you’re one of our heroes. Thanks for being our inspiration and mentor!

    I thought I will see you here in Manila more often?  I have reserved your favorite San Miguel Cerveza Negra!

     

    Bert Fabian

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 2:47 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    You are an inspiration for people like us. I have become a better person after communicating and working with you.  I wish and pray for your speedy recovery.

     

     

    Sudhir Gota

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 1:44 AM

     

    Hi Lee!

    Hope the doctors are doing there parts so that your inner energy can do the rest towards a quick recovery.

    Remember having the great opportunity to visit and work with you as a PhD student some hundred years ago in Berkeley, and living in your house, of which a few was together with Mozart who was about as unwilling to cooperate as people are in neoclassical economic models…

    I also remember the experience of observing real multi-tasking way before anyone have heard about that term; as I remember it you were at least 16 hours per day simultaneously e-mail communicating with a few people (that is, people like me that you had forced to get a modem, learn ftp etc.), talking to at least one person on the phone with a head-set, working on a few papers on your own and listening to some classical music concert. No surprise you are a terribly productive person then…

    All the best,

    Olof

     

     

     

     

     

    Olof Johansson-Stenman

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 12:02 AM

    Sorry and shocked to hear the news, Lee.  Proud to hsve benefitted from your knowledge and generosity.  Your afirmation of my own work is much appreciated.  I’m just sorry we have never managed to meet after all.

    Ray Brindle

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 10:54 PM

     

    Lee, I got the photo Agneta sent today. You are still working away. Your work has created momentum that continues like a river. It will never run out of energy.

    Do you still have the scary hunting knife you used to show me when you “babysat” me on Westholme that scared the crap out of me?

    I remember being a freshman at UC Berkeley and some weirdo (that narrows it down, doesn’t it?) was stalking me and I could run into Moes and hide behind my big brother. I wasn’t cut out for Berkeley in the 60′s.

    Have you ever counted how many records you had?

    Josh will be there next week. It’s great to see that he is in a related field.

    The Canada Schippers all send their best and I am sure you will be hearing from them.

    Go Giants!

    Little sister

     

     

     

     

    Amy Schipper Howe

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 10:47 PM

     

    Wonderful Lee, thanks for your inspiration, your energy, your humor!

    You are a formidable character and companion of battles for our dreams.

    Abrazo!!!  Enrique

     

     

    Enrique Penalosa

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 10:14 PM

    Hi Lee: I am remembering Jim MacKenzie’s little year-end-money project in 1978. That was special. With love,

    Carl Blumstein

    Sent from CaringBridge Mobile

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 8:27 PM

    Lee, I just heard you were ill, and have sent some ideas via Jon for Lisa.

    You’re a wonderful inspiration and teacher to me as to the whole community around the world. There is no end to the good that you have done and continue to do for us all.
    Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era is scheduled for ~26 October publication by Chelsea Green. Here’s how it came out: a prosperous 2050 US economy (extrapolated EIA Ref Case) with no oil, no coal, no nuclear, 1/3 less gas, $5t less NPV private internal cost, the transition led by business for profit and requiring no Act of Congress. The book is dedicated to you.
    With all my love and eternal gratitude — Amory

     

    Amory Lovins

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 7:44 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I think of you often, and not just when pondering some question about energy efficiency or transportation trends. I wish you good vibes, and I wish you and your family the smoothest possible journey through such unbearably difficult times.

    Andy Revkin

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 7:08 PM

    Lee–We go back to the old country (West LA), were neighbors in Berkeley and were working in London at the same time.  So lots of shared history and memories.  Am keeping current via Dick Leavitt  ( we figured out that we played tennis against each other in high school since Hami played Uni a bunch of times and we both played doubles on our respective teams but we do argue about who lost–not who won–only an argument a couple of West LA Jewish geezers could possibly have).  But want to let you, Agneta and the family know am thinking of all of you in these difficult times.   You are, as we say in Latin, sui generis…don’t know the Swedish or Yiddish for that.    Best,   Marc

    Marc Roth

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 6:47 PM

    Just wanted to let Lee and his family know I am thinking about them.  It was so great to see Lee and family last Friday.  Paul and Anne Ehrlich and I stopped by just to say hi.  Lee did tire and I am afraid we stayed too long.  But it was great to be able to say hello.  Lots of love, Terry
    PS to those thinking of taking or sending flowers, no flowers are allowed in that wing of the hospital so balloons are a much better choice.

    terry root

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 5:54 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    There aren’t very many professors who inspire former students to put together a carpool to catch their gig a couple of hours away… but I recall that more than one person asked me for a ride to Asilomar–not to go to the conference, mind you, but to hear your band play.  And keep in mind these were energy people!

    It has been an honor and privilege working with you on my thesis.  When you showed up on campus, it took me all of about five minutes to realize I wanted you on my committee.  If I remember correctly, I was talking with Robert Heilmayr about WRI, and he mentioned that you once had a piano owned by Herbie Hancock.  That pretty much sealed the deal right there.  You’ve probably figured out that I don’t get to talk about jazz with very many people, let alone with my coworkers and supervisors.  What a treat!  Though I still think I should try to change your mind about the electric jazz movement—at least the better parts of it, anyway.  There are some neat things happening in that scene these days.  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

    Beyond your taste in music, your guidance and perspective on the big picture on energy environmental issues have shaped the way I think about my own work.  Your focus on the way real people respond to incentives and changes in their environment is a welcome relief from an endless sea of modeling.  And I can promise you that wherever I go I’ll bug people about their data—that’s a lesson I won’t forget anytime soon.

     

    I’ll keep you in mind next time I go to Twins or Yoshi’s…

     

    Danny

     

    PS This won’t surprise anyone who knows Lee, but when he asked me where I was living this summer in Washington DC, he not only knew the address—he also knew it was across the street from an independent gas station where all the taxis fill up on the cheapest gas in the city.  He probably knows my bus schedule, too!

     

     

    Danny Cullenward

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 5:49 PM

    To Lee Schipper, the Marco Polo of Transportation:

    It was a distinct pleasure last December, like getting an early Christmas present, to interview you about your landmark study on peak travel. Who is this vastly entertaining man who knows everything about traffic from Singapore to Shanghai? I wondered. This month, we were looking for Very Important People to profile, so I went online to watch your engaging lecture at Ohio State, where you talked about Prius envy and the new Great Wall of cars in China. I’m very sorry to hear that you are ill, and I hope you can catch a rapid transit bus to better health soon.

     

    Melinda Burns

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 4:41 PM

    Thanks for arranging the test drive of the Volt.
    Great event for an exciting development.

    George P. Shultz

    George Shultz

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 4:30 PM

    Dear Lee

    It is wonderful to know someone who has made a difference in the world and lived a successful life, without having to become more normal or less eccentric–or eclectic.  Rarely have I met someone with so many gifts in such different fields.  I remember the first time I met you, I was wondering who was that Swede nattering away in the back of the conference room. The next time I saw you, I thought you looked like the same person, but you seemed different in English. :-) Later on, I heard from my Indonesian friends that you kept them enthralled with your musical abilities.  I was amazed that this was all the same person!

    I have really enjoyed your presence at Berkeley.  There were several times when you enthusiastically joined in the discussion with my writing group (in the bunker), without realizing that you were officially “interrupting”.  I thought it perfectly illustrated your expansive, inclusive and free spirit.  And it was always interesting to hear what you had to say.  I also appreciate hearing about your work and ideas with relation to energy and environment–and I often think of you as I cook dinner at our gas stove at home.

    There’s a quote that I thought of when I heard you were so sick: “The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit?” (Prov 18:14). You have a great spirit and I know that you will never lose it.

    Ria

    Ria Hutabarat Lo

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 3:35 PM

     

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    Many of us think of you as OUR LION, a real roaring one J

     

     

     

    Your parents may not have known, but could they have suffered from dyslexia, like some of us do? Could they have had in mind to adorn you with the Swedish name “Lejon”, thinking that one day you would have a lot of followers and friends in Sweden as well as in Anglophone countries and around the world?

     

     

     

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    I love you Lee/Lejon/Leon,

     

    Cilla

     

    Cecilia Ruben, Stockholm

     

     

    Cecilia Ruben

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 3:08 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I have a few recollections that are both professional and personal.

    I vividly remember your PhD thesis in astrophysics coming out of the building 90 3rd floor printer in the mid 1980s.  You had finally got around to finishing it after all the great energy work you’d been doing in the 1970s and early 1980s.  I remember it because it didn’t make sense that someone was printing astrophysics data in Bdg 90, which was mostly devoted to energy research.  But then I saw the title page and realized that it was your thesis, and it all made sense.

    You were personally responsible (unbeknownst to me until long after the fact) for nominating a paper of mine for an award from the National Research Council’s Transportation research board, an award that I (and my two coauthors) subsequently received in 1994.  Honors like that really matter to the career of a young scientist, and I’m indebted to youfor making the effort to suggest it to the awards panel.  You’ve been incredibly supportive of me over the years, for no reason other than that you liked the work I was doing and saw the opportunity to make a difference in my career trajectory.  Plus we always had fun bantering at a furious pace!

    You are the man who brought me to dinner parties with the Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, and always made sure I was seated next to the most interesting people in the room.

    You are the man who amazes all of us with your musical genius,wit, and energy.

    And you are the man who, with good humor and fortitude, continued to fight for decades for energy policy choices to be based on reality as reflected in the data (a fight that will continue for many decades more, no doubt).

    I am so sorry to hear about your illness and I wish you the strength of a lion in this battle.   You are the man!

    Love and hugs,

    Jon

     

     

     

    Jonathan Koomey

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 3:07 PM

     

    Lee has made a huge contribution, not only to sustainable energy – but also, just as important in my mind, to the jazz world. I was really looking forward to playing some memorable music with him at the next IPCC meeting for the 5th Assessment Report Working Group III to be held next year in New Zealand and where my new IPCC band will first perform (to be possibly named “The Storylines” or the “Non-Prescriptors” yet to be decided - but following on from “The Potentials” (for IPCC AR4) and “The Scenarios” (for IPCC SRREN)). So we will sorely miss Lee being there to lead the music - and also of course in his critical role as Review Editor of our Chapter 8 on Transport. We, as authors, will now do all the extra hard work necessary to ensure that Lee’s vision for the essential energy transition needed in the near future will proceed and that his contribution to the new pathway is not forgotten. God speed, Lee.

    Ralph Sims, Massey University, New Zealand

     

     

     

    Ralph Sims

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 2:36 PM

    Dear Lee:

    My wishes go with you.

    Ronnie

    Ronnie Lipschutz

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 1:49 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Over the years we’ve crossed paths often but usually only fleetingly and I’ve always found in you a kindred spirit, and a beacon of fun, passion, and smarts. When I heard the news of your illness and read a few of the posts I went directly to my closet for a loud shirt. I’m wearing it now as a sort of zero emissions transmitter panel of healing, heartfelt vibes. Bon courage!
    Love Sue

     

    susan zielinski

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 1:40 PM

    Lee,

    Dan and I were telling stories about you yesterday. Now I’m sitting here at home thinking about you and the work I have attempted that you inspired. This task will take some time to sort out.
    Dan and I noted that everywhere we have traveled, whether Mexico or Geneva, you had been there the week before, and everyone would say, “Do you know Lee Shipper.” I marvel at the vision and good will you have left in your trail.
    I always loved your phone calls, unexpected, which injected me at high speed into a conversation you were having with persons worldwide. As soon as I picked up the phone, I was kidnapped and thrust into a world scene, and forced to pick up a dozen threads at once..Then you raced on, leaving me with more ideas than I could hold in my head- somewhat out of breath. It was always great..
    Tom Turrentine

     

    Tom Turrentine

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 1:27 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Of anyone I know, you are the “Father of Energy Efficiency.”   Very early in the 90′s you had a seminar in Texas.  Dwight French attended.  This is when EIA started a program to develop indicators of energy efficiency with me at the lead.  Through the years our paths have crossed many times and each time, I learned more from you.  You always have been a big supporter of EIA and attended our energy efficiency workshops.  Today EIA has an Office of Energy Consumption and Efficiency Statistics with its beginning in Texas many years ago.

    Thank you so very much.  You are in my thoughts and prayers.

    Steph

     

     

     

    Stephanie Battles

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 1:07 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

     

     

    I have known you since the beginning of ERG…it sometimes seems of time, for you are among the few true and timeless characters that have influenced my life.  Your gibes and puns lighten our lives, while providing cover for your trenchant analyses.   Just last week I used your wonderful argument about how low-flush toilets don’t lead to more frequent toilet usage (I used your more colorful language!) to argue with a person who was claiming that the Jevons paradox makes efficiency gains useless.  Lee, you are an everlasting gem.
    John Harte

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 11:51 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I have always been very impressed by the numerous friends you have all over the world and this website confirms that you have actually touched a lot of people.

    I want you to know that it has been a great pleasure and honor to work with you. I do not think I have ever told you how much I appreciate the fact that you always answer my emails very fast, willing to help me. Your enthusiasm and energy motivate me a lot. I like how you are very excited (or upset) every time something new happens. As you can imagine, all these things contribute to make me have a good time here. I also want to thank you for having shared with me all the good places to go in LA.

    Besides, I think you would be happy to know that we finally got the energy data for the UK. Moreover, this week, I have received a document from France for our work about the sources. I have not read all of it yet but it describes the changes and revision of their method. Another document about the method itself will be published this autumn. That sounds interesting, doesn’t it?

    Encore merci pour tout,

     

    Justine Song

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 11:32 AM

     

    Lee:

    My good friend. Please receive a warm hug from your South American friends.  We are thinking of you.

     

    Walter  & Isabel

     

    Walter Vergara

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 6:07 AM

    Hey, this is the first guy who talked energy economics to me when I graduated, and still does as I trudge through policy documents and data. If that’s not enough, he still can move policymakers and researchers with sharp presentations. You cant possibly stay in bed so long man? Have a short rest and come back to the conference circuit quickly. We miss you.

    Kaushik

    Kaushik Deb

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 5:11 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Your colleagues and friends from all over the world have said almost everything about your wonderful life experiences and your incredible energy. You have inspired so many of us, and I personally owe so much to you.

    I wish you all the best, most of courage to you and your family, and auf Wiedersehen.

    Theo from Cyprus

     

    Theo Zachariadis

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 2:58 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I am thinking of you and of your family in these times, and of your incredible positive and creative energy.

    Alles Liebe!

    Seraphine

     

    seraphine haeussling

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 1:21 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    If you knew how many times I have spoken about you and your work to colleagues and acquaintances your ears would burn (as they say in French). You are the only person I know that can speak with someone in their office, carry on a telephone conversation and type an email (OK, so there were a few spelling errors) all at the same time. Your incredible energy and “joie de vivre” are an inspiration to the rest of us.

    I will be waiting to receive your next email asking for me to calculate the CO2 emissions that would have been emitted if the embedded carbon in the traded products took account of the electricity mix in the countries that export electricity.  Need I say more?

    All the best and “bon courage” for the future.

    Karen

     

     

    Karen Treanton

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011 12:28 AM

    Dear Lee,

    I will never forget our long talks about transportation in China, nor the weekend house-sitting when I spent all of Sunday searching your neighborhood for Ophelia and asking your neighbors for help in getting her back in the house. Sorry again for that panicked phone call that interrupted your panel at TRB.

    It was a pleasure this past year to work in the GMS office with you and hear you regale the China research group with stories of high-level meetings and banquets in Shanghai and Xi’an.  You can imagine my surprise when I arrived at my internship this summer and was assigned to do some GIS work in none other than Xi’an.  I’ve assembled a ton of data on traffic and transit there and hope to write my PR on it when I return to Berkeley. I look forward to getting your thoughts on it.

    You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

    Take care,
    Warner Brown

    Warner Brown

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 9:33 PM

     

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    I’m thinking of you, and I want you to know how much you mean to me. I remember the time when I first met you in DC during my internship interview at EMBARQ and those subsequent afternoons in your office filled with jokes and teachings that shaped my early professional years. I am lucky that your contagious humor, enthusiasm and wisdom have touched my life. I am so grateful to know you; you have made a big difference in my life and that of so many people around me.  I pray that you and your family find peace and strength to go through this difficult transition.

     

     

     

    Con todo mi cariño, aprecio y admiración,

    Dhyana

     

     

     

    Dhyana Quintanar

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 9:09 PM

    I met you, Lee, when you moved in across the street when we were both about 5 years old.  I was at the birth of your first daughter.  When I read all these tributes to you, I realize that I haven’t seen you in thirty years but I remember you when we both were young.  We built freeways together, collected stamps, and you helped me with my math homework. And my father was famous for calling off your band rehearsals   I am in Tennessee now, and looking forward to moving back to the Bay Area when and if I ever retire.

    As a physician, I realize that sickness is hard on friends and family and the doctors involved.  I know little about your great accomplishments in your academic field, but I knew you well a long time ago. Keep up your humor and love of life.  I guess I didn’t realize how much I have missed you.

    Kim

    Kim Langley

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 8:24 PM

     

    Lee: I just learned that you are having some bad times. You are much on my mind. I thoroughly enjoyed our breakfast at Stanford just three months ago.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

     

     

    Very few people have had as much positive influence on my life as you have — as the guy who always gets to the heart of the matter at hand, the guy who knows how to align his work with his social conscience and can show others how to do the same, and the guy with the twinkle who helps everyone not take the world’s problems too seriously.

     

     

     

    All my very best,

     

     

     

    Rob

     

     

    Robert Socolow

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 8:23 PM

    Dear Lee

    I am crying, and yet I am smiling. No one who met you will be able to resist smiling when thinking of you — every one of us has a “Lee story”. Your energy, your big picture comments at meetings that nail the discussion on the head, your passion for music and enviable ability to find jazz musicians in any city where you set foot on the ground, your interest in people, and never-ending mission to make all of us (there must be thousands!!!) clean up this world.
    Of the many memories I have, the one I most treasure is the night at BAQ 2010 in Singapore when I was given the honor to sing ‘Girl from Ipanema” with Lee and the Mitigators. I hope there is a recording of it. BAQs will not be the same without you!
    I wish you and your family the best. We love you! Sophie

     

    Sophie Punte

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 7:48 PM

     

    Dear Lee:

     

    Greetings from Mumbai.

     

     

    I remember very well meeting you for my interview in your Berkeley office. We have come a long way with EMBARQ India since 15 employees, 3 offices and working in 10 cities.

     

     

    Personally this is the most meaningful work I have ever done. Thanks for playing a big role in making this happen.

     

    You are in my thoughts today. I know you will recover from this one. Hugs to you and your family.

    Madhav

     

    Madhav Pai

     

    Madhav Pai

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 6:35 PM

    Dear Lee

    Let me join the many many people–your network has tentacles around the world!–who are saddened by the news of your illness.

    I think we first met in Paris when you were at IEA and I was on a steep learning curve as Andreas Schafer and I had started working on our transportation model.  Our friends at IIASA steered me to your doorstep, and I knew it was you on the other side since there was a lot of drumming going on.  I miss not seeing more of you since I left Stanford a couple years ago.

    Just spent the last few days at the EPRI summer seminar where the power industry is much focused on what it can deliver to electric transportation.  Another revolution in mobility, perhaps, is unfolding.

    Be strong and well.

    warmest wishes

    David

    David Victor

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 3:33 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I’m sure you don’t know me, but we met at Lisa&Markus’ wedding in Sweden (I’m a friend of them from Germany). I think, we drank a beer together, but I’m not sure about that…but, hey, it simply has to be that way!  And this was the most beautiful wedding I ever was invited in!! May these thoughts of the wedding of your lovely daughter give you a smile!

    Best wishes!

    Andreas

    Andreas Christ

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 3:05 PM

    Hi Lee,
    I just heard the awful news. It’s strange because for a couple week now you have been popping into my thoughts. I’ve been fondly re-visiting the time I spent with you and your family the summer of 2003. Since then I’ve moved to Germany and had three children (ages 1, 3, and 5). I’m living near Stuttgart and pursuing a phd at the Uni Frankfurt and the Wuppertal Institute. You were an inspiration to me and I know to many others. It was clear in the small amount of time I spent around you that you live life to the fullest and you were determined to leave your imprint on this world. I wish you could stay a bit longer to set a few things straight… Or maybe reincarnation is true and you’ll come back in the form of a great president/leader who has the power to pursue rational transportation polices. That would be great. Big hug to you and your 3 women. I’ll be thinking about you and sending “positive vibes” (for lack of a better word :) ) your way. Love, Gabrielle

    Gabrielle Hermann

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 12:54 PM

    It was good to see you again at Alta Bates two weeks ago… and I want a copy of the picture that your nephew took of us!

    As I told you then, I want to see you in Durban this December with the Carbon Mitgators playing vibes! That night before the Copenhagen COP when you played at that little club downtown might have been the highlight of a dismal two weeks in Denmark. Seriously, with a few more beers and some time to work between sets, the intellectual climate science and policy firepower in the audience could probably have knocked out a post-2012 agreement on cocktail napkins.
    You are Mr. Energy.. don’t run out of it yet!
    Kimo

     

    Kimo Goree

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 12:30 PM

     

    Hey Lee I remember you watching me arrive in a Brompton back in the early days of CTS Mexico with Jose Luis Samaniego (must had been Fall of 2002) and saying: “Wow! Is that a real Brompton?” I enjoyed many good moments with you (i.e. when we went to see the failed BRT in Puebla, you explaining me the musical structure of Take Five, watching you take a power nap at the Salon Azul of Minister Sheinbaum, etc…). You were also so instrumental on getting the 1st BRT constructed in Mexico City. Thank you for all these great times that will always live in my mind and heart. Best wishes, Bernardo<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

     

     

    Bernardo Baranda

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 11:18 AM

     

    Lee,

    Here’s a bit of trivia for you: when I google Lee Schipper, I get 1,060,000 results in 0.12 seconds, and I’m sure the number is growing.

    In reading all these messages from so many friends you’ve made in so many countries, it’s easy to see how you’ve planted your energy and ideas like Johnny Appleseed and his trees. You can rest easy in knowing that the Schipper effect has gone global.

    Remember 30 years ago? Jimmy Carter was president, Dick Ottinger chaired the House Energy subcommittee, there was still OTA, SERI was born, and what a colorful cast of energy conservation pioneers you all were (and still are).

    20 years ago, waaay back in internet caveman times, I was sitting in your Stockholm apartment with Agneta, Lisa and Julia, agog at watching them chat by email to you out in Berkeley; it was my first look at email. Magically out of that old-fashioned blocky orange script you appeared; with your gift of writing emails that come alive like no one else’s, it was as if you were standing there in the room with us.

    And 10 years ago when Kurt and I had flown down from Kathmandu to New Delhi, you were there too, on your mission to reform Indian buses.

    We’ve had great times, haven’t we?

    love to you, Agneta, Lisa and Julia.

    Pam

     

    Pam Deuel Meyer

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 9:44 AM

    Hi Lee – I was just thinking of you the other day… I’m sorry to hear this news, but I wish you strength for a speedy recovery! You’re in my thoughts and prayers.
    Britt

    Britt Childs Staley

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 9:39 AM

    Lee: this is “squirl” writing to let you know we keep you in our prayers. We send a big hug, Arturo, Judy, and Gabriel.

    Arturo Ardila

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 9:11 AM

     

    Hey Lee:

    I just got the (devastating) news yesterday while horseback riding on the Tibetan Plateau and staying overnight with nomads. An idealic place where real and surreal meet, maybe the right place to ponder about you as a friend, mentor and source of inspiration in so many different ways! I miss and will miss you!

    I still remember vividly the first moment I “met” you during a  videoconference between the World Bank and Paris. Everybody was dressed up and you came in a little late, sweating and wearing your yellow biking outfit (the one I was so fortunate to see on so many bike rides around the DC area!) and immediately taking over the meeting. I knew then, as I later came to know for sure, that you are a person to my heart, with a strong passion, putting your actions where your mouth is and always inspiring others. What a lucky person I am to have met you!

    Of course I also remember your move to DC (Georgetown) and the many other moves that followed… our bike rides along the Potomac, around the rolling hills of Virginia and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the laughter, wines, and great moments we shared.

    The small wood carving of the three buddhist-style images–I think you gave it to us when you moved from DC back to CA–now hangs above our wine cabinet in our house in Beijing. I suppose in a way this is a very fitting place!

    Lee, Anna and my thoughts are with you, Agneta, Lisa, and Julia. I hope you find the strenght and joyfullness that have always been your trademark in these times.

    With a tear and a smile!

    All the best,

    Paul

     

    Paul Procee

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 8:19 AM

     

    Hej Lee,

     

    jag har hört från SEI och från Hans N om läget. Det var ett tag sen vi vaktade våra barn tillsammans på WennerGren center, och mycket har hänt sen dess med oss alla. Sina gamla vänner har man alltid kvar, och Åsa och jag skickar en hälsning om bättre tider till dig och familjen.

    Vi hörs!

    Lasse

     

    Lars Kristoferson

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 6:53 AM

     

    Dear Lee

    I just have heard through Eric about your state, and I want to wish you all the strenghts, remembering your extreme energy and enthusiasm you always showed.

    Robert Stussi (switzerland + portugal) (remembering your lost camara in Shanghai Challenge Bibendum)

     

    Robert Stussi

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 5:10 AM

     

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    Cela fait maintenant plus de 30 ans que j’ai eu l’immense privilège de te rencontrer pour la première fois. C’était au LBL et on avait des bureaux voisins. J’ai fait connaissance avec un homme hors du commun capable de faire une dizaine de choses à la fois. Et j’ai fait connaissance avec ton humour et la fameuse photo à la porte de ton bureau où tu posais devant le panneau indicateur d’une ville allemande dont le nom se terminait en fart… Je suis sur que tu t’en souviens.

     

    Nos chemins se sont recroisés plusieurs fois, notamment à l’AIE où j’ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec toi pour plusieurs années. Tu es connu comme le gourou des indicateurs d’efficacité énergétique, et si le monde consomme et pollue un peu moins, nous sommes nombreux à penser que tu y es pour beaucoup.

     

    A l’Agence, comme tu le sais, nous sommes plusieurs à continuer sur le chemin que tu as tracé. Les Ministres IEA ont accepté en 2009 la collecte annuelle de données nécessaires pour construire des indicateurs de façon officielle et annuelle. Le Scoreboard 2011 traitera de l’efficacité énergétique. Nous terminons un manuel sur comment collecter les données nécessaires aux indicateurs. Nous aurons un workshop sur ce sujet en Mars 2012.  Autant de signes et d’actions qui montrent un regain d’intérêt pour l’efficacité énergétique et pour le travail que tu mènes aux quatre coins du monde.

     

    Rick nous a fait part des problèmes de santé que tu traverses. Sois sur que nous sommes tous derrière toi parce que tu es quelqu’un de bien, de très bien, et que nous avons tous besoin de toi pour aller plus loin vers plus d’efficacité énergétique pour un monde meilleur.

     

    Bien à toi.

     

    Jean-Yves

     

     

    Jean-Yves Garnier

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 5:09 AM

    Good morning Lee. There is a great article on World Streets today which a large number of us are going to enjoy. The title is Car Crazy: On the Perils of Asia’s Hyper-Motorization”  The author is Lee Schipper. You can find it as always at www.worldstreets.org. We decided that as you fight your way back to health, we will play backup and publish some of your great messages to the world.   We think of you oh so warmly Lee.   Shalom,  Eric

    PS. It drives me nuts that you write so much better than I do. (On the other hand I am taller.)

     

    Eric Britton

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 4:18 AM

     

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    We first met in 1969 when you (and Agneta) came to Copenhagen. We played at “Jazz I Reprisen” which became sort of a landmark in our common memory – although it closed down in 1970 ! But that was not the end of our relationship. I felt honoured to be invited to yours and Agneta’s wedding in Sweden. Over the years we first communicated by snailmail and later by email. When you occasionally came to Denmark, you phoned me – often from the airport, when you were in transit – and often at 5 AM J And the question ever was: “How are things at “Reprisen”?  But you also came to play – borrowed a set of vibes and played with your Danish friends – Ole Matthiessen, the late Erling Kroner, Jens Søndergaard etc.  My wife, Anne, and I visited you in Berkeley and we even visited your sweet Agneta and your lovely daughters one summer when you were away saving the world. We had an uforgettable afternoon with you and Agneta at our place in Copenhagen in 2009. Dear Lee, I feel privileged to know you and I am aware of the important work you have done for climate and energy in the world. By the way – in an e-mail to you, I have attached a photo that I took of you in 1969. You know the location and why not name it “The Prince of Reprisen”.

     

    Love and all the best – see you soon!

     

    Jens Jørn Gjedsted – Copenhagen, Denmark

     

     

    Jens Jørn Gjedsted

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 4:13 AM

    Lee!

    Greetings from Sabrina in Paris.  Alan Meier let me know what’s been going on.
    what is this outrageous news?! I was just at WRI in April, & hoped to see you there, I was disappointed when they told me you were not there.

    some news from me – still in paris, two great kids aged 5&7, a smiling irish husband.  i tell him sometimes about the great bike rides you used to lead back when you were in paris.  i enjoyed those so much!  and i also think back upon occasion at how helpful you were the time a friend was visiting & had a nervous breakdown.  you were a prince, your help was greatly appreciated!!!

    my son (tiber, age 7) is a renaissance geek – he is a young inventor who wants to invent solar transport systems to protect the planet; he is also a musician.  i think you’d approve!

    i had major near-death experience a year ago.  i was in the hosp for 2 weeks, one of those weeks i was on a respirator ( cause – freak infection in my neck, which has left with a great Pirate scar), lost 10% of my body weight, was scarcely able to walk, swallow, etc.  so i can relate to being in the hosp!  All is well now, i am strong & healthy.  one thing that kept me going was the emails i got from friends.  visits were tiring – esp at first. How nice that this site is here, so your friends can give you our support.

    and now for some doggerel to lighten the mood:

    there is a musician called Lee
    who helps the world save energee
    by using equations
    about transportation
    and going to ACEEE.

    dude, you’re awesome and you were such a good friend during the paris days.

    I send you warm thoughts and big big big hugs.

    a bientot!

    sabrina

    sabrina birner

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 3:48 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I just wanted say that we are thinking about you and the good moments together here in Denmark and abroad – and our stay in Berkeley. We’re still on holiday at the northcoast in our summerhouse in Liseleje. I will come back to you next week.

    All the best from Susanne and Jørgen

     

    Jørgen Abildgaard

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 12:33 AM

     

    Lee continues to arm wrestle with his cancer.  Though he is physically weak, his spirit remains strong. He reads emails, though doesn’t have enough energy to reply. He enjoys his many visitors, but they also tire him and he needs time to recuperate.  He is never alone and local friends have been wonderfully supportive.

    Agneta, Lisa and Julia appreciate everyone’s care and concern.

    Dick Leavitt (old, old friend of Lee, living nearby)

     

    Richard Leavitt

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 11:39 PM
    Dear Lee,
    Your sheer energy, love of storytelling and great ideas, ability to draw connections, knack for cutting through complexity, and irrepressible humor have always made me think, frequently made me laugh, and occasionally left me baffled.  You are an inspiration and a remarkable human being, as so many others have said here so eloquently.  It has always been a great pleasure to see you, work with you, and learn from you.
    You may find this of interest… We’re busy here in NY thinking about our remarkable but creaky interstate bus infrastructure, and how to drag it into the 21st Century.  What can be done when a bus system is so successful, it’s bursting at the seams, and its infrastructure needs to be replaced without shutting the system down?  We think a large part of the ultimate answer is capacity for sorting and queuing buses before they go into service, but the engineering, real estate, and phasing issues are quite challenging.   If we succeed in finding and financing a solution, we’ll have an interesting story to tell.  But in the meantime, just counting and forecasting buses and bus riders is a circular epistemological exercise on par with the fuel economy/fuel consumption/VMT loop you taught me about back at LBNL.
    So you have been and will remain in my thoughts.  Love and best wishes to you and your family.

     

    Todd Goldman

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 11:28 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    Just wanted say that I am thinking about you. And I know I am not alone. There are a lot of people rooting for you here at WRI. Be strong, don’t let this illness get you down. You can beat it. You always were a fighter for good causes. The sustainability movement needs you. You are one of our best.

    You should be proud of all Embarq’s achievements. It’s one of WRI’s best generators of outcomes these days. And it keeps going from strength to strength.

    Hang in there and keep your spirits up. And when you can, please send us an email. We really miss the famous Lee Schipper “everyone” emails. I nearly had to go to rehab after you left WRI to deal with my Lee Schipper withdrawal symptons.

    Take care and please know that you are very much in the thoughts of all your former colleagues and friends at WRI.

    Warmest Wishes,

     

    Janet Ranganathan

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 7:40 PM

     

    Dear Lee – Just yesterday I was on the new bullet train between Shanghai and Beijing and thought of you.  Then I received a note forwarded to me of your illness. I was so sorry to hear you are so ill.

    Thank you for being you – always taking the time to talk, constantly innovating, eternally looking for solutions, challenging us.  It has been such a pleasure through the years, and having you at WRI added great color and fun (not to mention IMPACT and RESULTS!).

    And now that I’m working on smart buildings and EE – looking at net zero, thinking of energy storage, I need your counsel even more!  So hang in there and I’ll check back in when I’m back from China.

    With fondest thoughts,

    Jennifer

     

    Jennifer Layke

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 7:25 PM

    Lee,

    You said you were going to teach this fall at Stanford so I’ll hold you to your word. In fact, I’m going to start working full time for PIE beginning this month, so I’ll start lining up media interviews for you right away! Hope to see you on campus soon.
    Best
    Mark Shwartz

     

    Mark Shwartz

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 6:34 PM

    Dearest Lee,

    I am so fortunate to have met you. I admire you for your work and for being such a wonderful human being.  You always made me laugh and have great memories of you. Talking to you was always fun and enriching.
    You and you subway tie will always be in my thoughts.
    Love,
    Oscar Edmundo Diaz

     

    Oscar Edmundo Diaz

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 5:12 PM

    Thinking of you and your family Lee. Thanks for the picture of you & your popsicle! Makes me smile. :)

    Sarah Chadwick

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 5:06 PM

     

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    I was a privileged working with you day-to-day, with neighbor offices, along several years, building EMBARQ, enjoying your particular sense of humor, your impressive curiosity and creativity, your humanity and candor. I cannot forget when you friendly irrupted in my office almost each morning to share with me your stories and new ideas; it was a sort of tonic to initiate my day. Thanks!

     

     

     

    Happiness is also a way to face hard times with unity, love and peace. You have the best family of the world, the family that you deserve! Your friends love you! Enjoy this happiness!

     

     

     

    Gran abrazo,

     

     

     

    Lucho Gutierrez

     

     

    Lucho Gutierrez

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 4:49 PM

    Reading some of these entries reminds me of something Lee and I have in common:  we are not the fanciest of dressers.  I virtually never wear a tie, and most of the time I am ultra-casual if not outright sloppy.  So when I showed up at the UC Davis reception at TRB one January without a suit or even an official TRB name tag, the graduate students hired as bouncers thought I was a homeless person trying to crash the reception to get some free food and wine (the best at TRB, by the way).  Just as they were about to throw me out of the room, Lee came to my rescue and vouched for my authenticity as a transportation researcher.  Thanks so much to you, Lee, for having saved me from a hungry evening!

    John Pucher

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 4:44 PM

     

    Hi Lee,

    I heard that you are not doing well, to use an understatement. I will keep this message short because I see that your guestbook is getting filled rather quickly.

    Although we have been out of touch lately, I have a lot of lively memories from the work that we did together 15 years ago. For instance that you were always on email and knew every logon spot in international airports (wifi didn’t exist!). But also your preference for European goat cheeses. When visiting you in Paris, you gave me a very smelly French goat cheese to take home. And in Utrecht we had to visit the cheese shop for some hard Dutch goat cheese that you took back to Paris. I am still thankful for being able to work with you and for getting a view of the man behind the scientist.

    Be sure that in my mind I am with you in this difficult time. Get well! Best wishes to you and your loved ones,

     

     

    Jacco Farla

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 4:18 PM

    Lee,

    I had hoped that you would be at my wedding next week (although I had not yet figured out where to get hold of a vibraphone), in stead you are fighting the fight of your life. I can only hope that having so much experience in beating the odds in many of the things you have done professionally that you will also be able to crack this one as well. I am looking forward to all the stories on this episode that will become part of your already very large repertoire of great stories.

    I guess that I am one of many who you have been able to enlist in your scheme to better understand and measure the world at large and its transportation systems in particular.  You have been very generous in sharing your contacts, although i recognize that there was an ulterior motive in doing so. Most of the people you introduced me to had another few Lee stories and at the same time they were able to help me along in getting more deeply involved in the numbers game.

    I was touched by the picture of the CTS Mexico staff with a banner saying thanking you for your part in setting up CTS Mexico.  There is a lot for you to be proud off.   I am aware that you feel that you did particularly well with your children (and your sons in law for that matter).  Few meetings went by without a casual remark being thrown in on what Julia and/or Lisa were happening to do.

    So by all means do stick around for a whole lot of years so that you can see us continuing to do the things that you want us to do.

    Cornie

    PS – my all-time favorite Lee moments in no particular order:

    • Lee in a wheelchair in the Hanoi workshop after he bumped his toe in the pool
    • Lee dislodging the rail in the elevator in our apartment with one of his many bags
    • Ordering food in the Chinese restaurant in the “tea-street”in Xian

     

    cornie huizenga

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 4:07 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

     

     

    I hope you are keeping the positive energy. I was thinking this afternoon about that day when I called you from EMBARQ – you were somewhere in California – and I say “Lee, you just received a really BIG package”, you asked me to open it for you and… it was a huge diploma, your share of the Nobel Peace Prize! Wow! I was also thinking about those great bike rides around Rock Creek Park in Washington discussing whether hybrid buses made sense for BRTs. Great times, I am still looking forward to biking with you around the Berkeley Hills; as soon as you recover I will make the arrangements…

     

     

    I have to say that it was seeing you biking to work everyday in EMBARQ what motivated me to start cycling to work as well, and I know I have motivated many others. This is how you generate change; you lead by example. It is you energy and passion that holds a community of sustainable transport advocates working together all over the world!

     

     

    You are on my thoughts today. I know you will recover from this one…

     

     

    Hugs to you and your family,

     

     

    Catalina

     

    Catalina Ochoa

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 3:37 PM

     

    Anecdotes from John Holdren:

    Shortly after I had hired Lee as an Energy Specialist in the embryonic Energy and Resources Program at UC Berkeley – this was late 1973, I think – Lee and Agneta invited me and Cheri for dinner at their place in Berkeley.  As Cheri and I walked up the steps to the porch, the powerful strains of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto, emanating from the first-floor windows, washed over us.  The fidelity was incredible, and I said to Cheri, “That must be a heck of a set of speakers they have.”  Then I rang the doorbell, and the music stopped, as Lee got up from the piano to answer the door.  That was the first I knew that I had hired a music prodigy as well as an energy prodigy.

    In the aftermath of the Arab-OPEC oil embargo in 1973-74, there was a lot of interest in energy in this country.  One reflection of this was a TV ad campaign put on in California by Atlantic Richfield (then a major oil company, for the younger readers!), in which viewers who had “a better idea about energy” were invited to send it in, and the winning ideas would be featured in these TV spots.  One of these showed a father and a son sitting beside Lake Tahoe, almost 200 miles from the Bay Area, talking about the high-speed train that allowed the father to commute to a job in San Francisco while living at the lake.   Lee was so offended by this that he sent in his own “better idea”, which would really save energy: “Let’s all live fivehundred miles from work and call in sick every day!”

    One day, in the course of the National Research Council’s 1975-79 study of the US energy future, Lee and I found ourselves together on a 747 flight from SFO to Washington Dulles to attend one of the meetings.   On the plane we ran into my friend Don Kennedy, then the head of the FDA and later president of Stanford University, and I introduced him to Lee.  Lee had a shtick at the time about artificial creamer and the chemicals they contained, especially phosphates, and he had recently done a bit on Swedish television where he washed a dirty shirt using artificial creamer as detergent (and got it clean).  So meeting the FDA chairman gave him an idea.  He went up and down the aisles of the 747, telling passengers the head of the FDA was in seat 17A, and they should send him a message by passing their containers of artificial creamer up there.  Kennedy was soon practically buried in a pile of the little creamer capsules.  Years later he would ask me, “Whatever became of that crazy guy Schipper you introduced me to on the plane?”

     

     

    Lisa Schipper

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 3:19 PM

     

    I feel honored to be able to write here. We only know each other since 2005 when Nancy Kete appointed me World Bank “Lee Keeper” for Transforming Transportation.  It didn’t take me long to realize that that it was you that was keeping me – and practically everyone else in our field.

    We all need you out and around for lots more than climate change, energy and transport, though.    There is no one else other than perhaps Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks who knows more ”2,000 Year Old Man” routines, not to mention a million other hilarious shticks from forever than you, so get better soon!   We need you at TTin January.

    Love and get well hugs from Arlington, Va.

    Gail and Sam Z.

     

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    Sam and Gail Zimmerman

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 2:51 PM

    Lee, you have been essential from much of what we do in the sustainable transport world.  Thank you for your passion, input and guidance.  I still remember at TRB when you were chairing a committee and you had to step out (for an hour) to make sure your cats were taken care of.  We need more passionate loving people like you amongst us, so please come back soon and  I wish you and your famili the best.

    Ramiro
    (ITDP)

    Ramiro Rios

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 2:36 PM

     

    Lee,

    So sorry to hear you are not well.

    Gustave Eiffel was critisized for the tower and the artistic community shunned him. But 200 years later it is the most visited monument in the world.

    The world needs inspired (obsessed?) people like you – to make us think, to inspire us, to help move us collectively forward.

    Sending you strength and courage.

     

     

    Carrie Pottinger

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 1:20 PM

    Lee,

    I’m still planning to meet you at Asilomar for that early morning bike ride we talked about.  Your work and effort for sustainable transport are essential.

    Bob

    Bob Noland

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 1:10 PM

    Dear Lee,

    While I don’t know you as well as many of the others that have written in your guestbook, I nevertheless have very fond memories of you, particularly the first time that I encountered you at the 2009 Asilomar Conference. There’s a funny story that accompanies this first encounter that I often share with my friends and fellow transport lovers, so I thought it was only fitting to share it with you and your family & friends, too!
    In the summer of 2009, I worked as the Transportation Planning Liaison at the U.S. EPA San Francisco Office, but I was also gearing up to enter ERG in the fall. Tim Lipman invited me to Asilomar, which I had never been to before, so I didn’t know too many people when I arrived on the first day of the conference. As I entered the main room, I surveyed the crowd. Most were milling about in small groups, eating muffins and drinking coffee, in the usual business casual attire. But out of the corner of my eye, I saw a fast and energetic figure with white hair darting from small group to small group, speaking loudly and laughing gregariously in a bright yellow biking attire–bike shorts, jersey, the whole 9 yards. I admit that I thought to myself, “Who is this guy???” as I took my seat. For the next five minutes, I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Most of the rest of us were clearly sleepy, eyelids drooping, slurping coffee, but he was bounding up and down the conference hall, talking loudly and laughing all the way. Finally, as the start time for the conference approached, he ran down the center isle to the microphone at the front of the room. Immediately, I thought, “Oh my gosh! The nutty guy is going to commandeer the conference!” I winced as he took a breath before starting to speak, and much to my surprise, he started with, “Hello all, and thanks for coming. My name is Lee Schipper and I will be running the show here for the next couple of days…” I couldn’t believe it; he was legitimate! And not only that, he was one of the most well-known and respected figures in my new field. To this day, I often think of this first encounter and chuckle at the realization that Lee and only Lee could stand in front of a room of transportation experts and command complete and earnest attention in a pair of tight bike shorts. :)
    I hope this story gave you and your family a little chuckle. It certainly continues to entertain me, and many of my friends and colleagues, and I think that it will remain a fond memory for years to come.
    My thoughts and best wishes are with you.
    All the best,

     

    Maggie Witt

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 12:25 PM

     

    Hello Lee,

    I have just been told a couple of people that you are not so bien portant these days, but of course I do not believe a word of it.  But hey !, I think it is a great idea to put up a site like this and invite all your friends and admirers to say nice words about you, and I can see that it works.  I think I am going to try it myself.  Shortly I will send you the address so you can pay me back for what follows.

    But first as always, a story and, as always, of the People, for the People and by the  People .  This one is about the two beggars are sitting on the pavement in Ireland not far from a Catholic, of course, church. One is holding a large Cross and the other a huge Magen David. Both are holding hats to collect contributions. As people walk by, they lift their noses at the guy holding the Star of David but drop money in the other guy’s hat. Soon one hat is nearly full while the other hat is completely empty; a priest watches and then approaches the men. He turns to the guy with the Star of David and says, “Look, don’t you realize that this is a Christian country? You’ll never get any contributions in this country holding a Star of David.” The guy holding the Magen David then turns to the guy holding the Cross and says, “Moise, look who’s trying to teach us marketing.”

    Okay, okay already you have heard better so without even a blush of apology let me pass on to my next important point, which is another story, this time about you but for which I need a little bit of a run up here.  We have known each other for something like twenty years.  Two Americans in Paris. And in the old days when you were working successfully with the OECD and the IEA, I really thought you were nuts to waste your time and intelligence on strategically less important concepts like supply and technology which were the betting favorites of many in our field.  (They were and are wrong of course.) I felt that somehow behind all of that was another side of your personality and your view — something much less mechanistic, more subtle, much more human more complex, and, in my book, much more effective as a base for public policy.  More purely musical, now that I think about it.

    And so it went.  You and I have had agreements and disagreements over the years, but strangely enough what I remember as I look back on those long-ago Paris days is the disagreements.  However  I recall as I let the memories sift through my mind on this summer day so far away from you my friend, is that they were always as cordial as they were vigorous — and that when we finished the reciprocal name-calling and eye-rolling we were still friends.

    More than that, it was my impression that when we left the debating table each of us was not quite the same as when we showed up.  A few dents had been make  and the impact of the other guy’s ideas and reasoning somehow resounded and changed something if only a bit.  And so it is in matters of great importance and complexity when there are no easy answers.

    But now let us jump a decade and switch to what happened when you really begin to get your gear in gear, at first with your terrific ideas and initiatives to shape Embarq in its infant years and later with your teaching and writing in which you began to show us all an altogether different side of your vision of our troubled sector.  You never stopped being Mr. Meter with that love of technology, but you started pushing us to think more deeply and to move toward much broader thinking, greater activism and deeper commitment.  And through it all, you never lost the happy habit of the well-chosen word and how to make us smile.

    It was great because I was able to get you to allow me to publish your occasional essays on critical thinking and common sense in the field of transport and cities in World Streets, essays which would have been a credit to Tom Paine and to every other bright and engaged citizen who is perfectly willing to speak their mind without any constraints at all.  One of my very favorites was your spirited and to this day unrelenting defense of carbon taxes, in which you basically copyrighted the magic ten words which to my mind seal the deal: “take their money and then give it back to them”.  Pure genius Lee!

    So while you are taking advantage of your hiatus in the sack, let me make a promise to you.  And in this I am dead serious.  When you are back in the saddle again let us make it a priority to work together on carbon taxes. The great and powerful idea and as you and I know so well when you cut the carbon one thousand other important, complicated and  apparently impossible things suddenly start to go right.  It will be, as my grandmother used to say, the Lord’s work.

    Lee, get well, come back, let’s do it

    Eric

    PS. Lee. It’s too hot in Paris.  You’re lucky you’re not here. Everybody has left town but me, the streets are diserted, there is no place to buy fresh bread, kvetch, kvetch,. Tu connais le chanson.

    eric britton

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 12:24 PM

    Lee – Just a thank you for all of your intellectual contributions over the two of three decades our paths have crossed. But more than that, to thank you for greatness of spirit, and for wrestling with big questions, and showing all of us how to approach them.  And for such a great “Just do it” spirit, mastering so many things, and making so many friends, and influencing so many of us.

    I was just entering the field when you made me feel welcome as a peer and fellow traveling along similar paths of inquiry, and I’ve always been grateful for your embrace and encouragement.

    You’re very much on my mind now.

    harvey sachs

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 11:14 AM

    Dear Lee,

    Though we have not met, I know of your contributions to science through my association with Woods Institute and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center. I’m sorry to hear of your illness and wish you peace and comfort. I enjoyed reading the many reminiscences of your friends and colleagues and feel I got to know you better through these writings. You have clearly led a wonderful life and touched many people. I especially liked hearing of your musical interests and talents. So wonderful you developed that and shared it with others. I also share your love of jazz music and vibes. wonderful stuff. Wishing you and your family strength and courage now and hope you will be encouraged by your friends.

    Paula Wetzel

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 10:58 AM

    I’m disappointed to hear that you are ill.  I am up at John Weyant’s integrated assessment modeling meeting in Snowmass.  We are all looking forward to a time when you are back to full speed and at meetings like this.  Your contributions to all of our work has been of immeasurable value.  Hang in there!

    jae

    Jae Edmonds

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 10:02 AM

     

    Lee:  I don’t know you well like some of the many well-wishers, but interacted with you a few times when I was at EPRI some 25 years ago.  I always enjoyed looking at your papers on international comparisons of energy use.

    I also have some close familiarity with cancer treatments, having undergone two courses of chemo over the past six years for a type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  Fortunately, my treatment has been successful so far and I’m 3 1/2 years since a bone marrow stem cell transplant.

    Best wishes to you.

    Steve Braithwait

    Madison, WI

     

    Steve Braithwait

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 9:05 AM

    Dear Lee,
    Je t’envoie mes meilleurs voeux de rétablissement. J’espère te voir reprendre bientôt ton énergie légendaire !
    Best,

    Loïc

    Loïc Mignon

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 8:22 AM

     

    Hej Lee,

    nu det är dags att Du provar lite “rebound”, på ett personligt plan så att säga, även om Du är skeptisk till den sortens effekt i din profession. Det är snart dags att börja planera för eceee 2013 så krya på dig snabbt!

     

     

    Hans Nilsson

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 8:10 AM

    Hello Lee,

    I am sending my best wishes, love and care from here in Aachen, Germany where I am finishing up my summer fellowship researching public-private partnerships in city planning. Betty told me the bad news today, I am very sorry to hear it.

    I have visited a great many places I think you would enjoy in Germany this summer, including Beethoven’s house in Bonn. I think of you every time I hear classical music playing at a concert here, or riding the efficient buses here (it’s so wonderful that they are so frequent!).

    You are such a unique and shining individual and I aspire to be such an energetic professor like you one day.  Thank you for making my days at GMS more fun with your insightful comments, endless facts and quirky jokes, and I feel extremely privileged to have worked with you.

    Best wishes & lots of love,

    Nicola Szibbo

    Nicola Szibbo

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 7:39 AM

     

     

    Dear Lee,

    A few weeks ago, listening to the radio, I heard the most beautiful recording by Furtwängler and Berlin Philharmonic of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and I thought of you—in 1970 or so, in Berkeley, at Moe’s Books, talking about Furtwängler and his music—and then further happy memories of seeing you in Stockholm in the summer of 1976.

    I am so sad to hear from my brother that you are ill. I writing to send you all my best wishes, to tell you that you are in my thoughts—today, tomorrow, always,

     

    Stephen GroszLondon

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Stephen Grosz

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 6:58 AM

    Dear Lee,

    I am very sorry to hear you are in hospital. We need you with us, and leading us with your energy, devotion and humanism to move us all towards a more sustainable world.

    Although I cannot physically be there with you now, please be known that I will be praying for your recovery.

    Thank you so much Lee for all your genius, warmth and kindness. We are all with you.

    Ko

    Ko Sakamoto

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 4:51 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    It has been a long time since we’ve seen each other, but I will never forget the good times we had during one of the ECEEE conferences in the South of France, with you livening up the evenings on your keyboards. I never before realised scientists/researchers could be so much fun! Something I guess everyone who knows you got to realise quite soon.

    I wish you and all your lover ones strength, warmth and happy memories in these difficult times, and hope you will take some comfort from what I am sure are messages from all over the world from all the people whose life and work you touched,

    Hug,

    Dian Phylipsen, Utrecht, the Netherlands

     

    Dian Phylipsen

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 3:08 AM

     

    Dear Lee

    I am sorry to hear you are so ill just now. I’m glad I had the chance to speak with you a few weeks ago, just before Sweden – where I really missed having you around to show me the city!

    I’m in Delhi, although I wish I could be in the Bay Area. I’ve had the chance to ride the new metro although not the BRT thus far. Delhi has fancy air conditioned buses now but no schedules available online or anywhere else – these are the ways in which we cripple public transport :)

    I hope to see you again – it was a great piece of luck for me that you decided to join Precourt midway through my phd. Made the whole place more interesting and inspirational and I greatly enjoyed my time as TA for your course.

    Good luck Lee!

    Anant

     

     

    Anant Sudarshan

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 2:54 AM

    Hej!  Bästa lycka i det svåra som händer – hoppas du blir frisk snart! Sommarhälsningar från Vidöstern i Småland.

    david bauner

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 1:19 AM

    Hi Lee,
    You don’t know what a pleasure it’s been to work with you and Betty over the past year, and I can’t thank you enough for opening that door. I’m not talking about the exposure to energy policy work and all that stuff, but rather sitting in an office with you and NEVER falling asleep at my desk because your supernatural energy was keeping the whole office abuzz, like fireflies on a light. I’ll never forget your face always popping in the doorway with a new story, and of course that one story that you could never let go of – about how a big chunk of national energy consumption went “missing” over one year of records. Or how you opened ERG colloquim every year with a transportation talk which always ended with an (I’m assuming sarcastic?) photo of a moss-covered car. It’s not so much your accomplishments that have wowed us, but your tireless, upbeat, optimistic, light-hearted attitude that made us think: this is how one should feel about their work, no matter what ugliness that work is entrenched in. You are a wonderful, wise soul and knowing you has been such a gift that will always be with us.

    alisar aoun

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 11:05 PM

    Hi Lee

    I hope that you are reading all of these wonderful messages
    from your family, friends, and colleagues – they are inspirational
    and give a glimpse of all the people that you have touched so profoundly.

    You know that you were a big influence on me from my first days
    at LBNL. From that time at Strawberry Canyon swimming pool in
    the early 1980s when you came up to me
    and my 2 young kids and said through the sunlight haze
    that I was GEORGE ZIMMER – and you told me that i should change my name.
    That nickname stuck with me at the lab for 25 years
    and it was all because of you.

    And i will never forget that glint in your eye
    when you were talking about cross-country
    energy comparisons and showed me the closet
    of “grey literature” on the 4th floor and how
    you came up with those metrics and numbers -
    voodoo magic in some cases.

    And to all those times when you offered
    to play music
    at ACEEE Summer Study, particularly when Rick/I chaired
    the first conference at Asilomar (in 1988) and we
    were scared and you salvaged the opening sunday
    with your music.

    Get well soon

    Chuck Goldman

    Chuck Goldman

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 10:46 PM

     

    Hi Lee,

    Greetings from sweltering Arizona. I know when I wish you a quick recovery, I speak for many of the countless students, scientists, practitioners, activists, and politicians you inspired with your passion, intellect and no-holds-barred attitude. We all need more of that attitude and passion! Hope to see you at TRB this winter. Maybe go for a bike ride around D.C. again when Paul returns…

     

    Aaron Golub

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 9:55 PM

    Fish On!!!!!

    Lee you’re a great spirit with a great heart. I just wanted to send you a thousand hugs.
    Love,
    Jesse

     

    Jesse Ribot

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 9:32 PM

    Hi Lee.

    I’m so sorry to say good bye–the world needs you!
    You will continue to be an inspiration to all of us
    pushing back on eco-madness and pulling toward
    eco-enlightenment (and you’re funny too).

    I still remember the day you popped up at the beach,
    your big heart and wry humor on display.

    I think I will always feel your spirit across the fence…

    Abrazos….and thank you.
    Lyuba

    Peter Hayes

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 9:21 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I don’t know where you are in the Great Cycle, but you are in my thoughts every day.

    I am now Down Under, not Over The Back Fence.

    I am unsure if I will return in time to see you before you go.  I hope I have written in time for you to read this message, or for Agneta to read it to you.

    Thank you for what you have done for the planet, for humanity, for our professional community, for our family, for me.

    You touched so many lives.  You left your mark in so many places.   You helped those who will live after us, generation after generation, to see the world anew, with startling clarity, so that they can carry forward the human story with respect for the inevitable entropy arising from our actions.

    You always extended a hand to those who needed help, or asked for guidance, a remarkable quality in someone so completely committed to their own good work.

    I hope you had the time and energy to listen to some of John Gardiner’s recordings of Bach’s Sacred Cantatas.

    I cannot say anything about the end of life except God’s speed, and we will all join you soon enough wherever it is that we land.

    And, I pray I will see you when I return in late August.

    Blessings and much love to you and your family,

    Peter Hayes and family

    Peter Hayes

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 7:59 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I’m really sorry I can’t be there to see you now, we are on vacation in Maritime Canada – wrong side of the continent.  You are very much in my thoughts though (and there are a lot of thoughts, with long daily drives as we head toward Cape Breton, NS). Maybe I’ll see you late in August, if I can get to that side of the continent – still unclear for me.

    In any case we’ll keep that data work going – some day there will be a perfect transport data set for every country in the world! (Maybe by 2050?)

    All the best,
    Lew

    Lew Fulton

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 7:54 PM

    Dear Lee,

    Of all the transportation scientists I know, you are surely among the most honest, hard-headed, and meticulous, but also warm-hearted, zany, and wonderful.  And you are also highly sustainable. So hang in there. You are an inspiration to all of us who know you.  Many thanks for all the ways you have enriched our research and our lives.

    Car-free hugs from your friend in New Jersey,

    John Pucher

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 5:38 PM

     

    Hi Lee

    Anne and I send our love and best wishes to you.

    Everything is OK at “Reprisen”

    Jens Jørn

     

     

    Jens Jørn Gjedsted

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 5:18 PM

    Dear Lee,

    What a long strange trip its been. EMBARQ was just an idea when we met and look what its turned into, carrying on without us parents now, doing its thing all over the globe. But it was your genius that started it and we’ll have to keep reminding the young Embarquederos of that from time to time, no? Get your strength back so we can argue about indicators some more. Love, Nancy

     

    Nancy Kete

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 5:01 PM

     

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    I still remember the first time I heard about you. I was with Jim Lents and Mauricio Osses, it was in Mexico City in January 2004. Mauricio was coming from a meeting with you, and he mentioned, “This guy Lee, with his crazy dreams, he just told me:  Mauricio, I want to make a bus system that makes the air of this city cleaner”. Three years later, I was working at CTS Mexico, as a result of your dream!!

     

    I want to thanks all the advice and help you have given us during these years; you are an example and inspiration.  I will continue to work toward achieving sustainable transport that improves not only the air quality but the quality of life in our cities, and in the meantime, I will have a nice glass of Mexican red wine in your honor!

     

    A huge hug,

     

    Hilda

     

     

    Hilda Martinez

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:58 PM

    Dear Lee –

    My time staying at your house last Sept stays with me like a dream come true. You seemed to me almost a twin brother … though a few months older, a bit more beboppish, and 5 (10? 20?) points of IQ beyond me. You and George Ban-Weiss letting me sit in with you jamming on “In A Silent Way” was easily my most beautiful musical moment since my youth. And all our back-and-forth about energy policy, traffic pricing, and carbon taxes, it was like trading 4′s, followed by that bike ride to the top of the Berkeley hills. I could have floated away.

    There are so many of us aching and praying for you to get well. Call it selfishness of the best kind … as Mark D said, you bring such gorgeous light to the world. Please be able to continue.

    Charles Komanoff

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:32 PM

     

    Dear Lee

    You are the strongest man in the world because you can carry music, energy, mobility, inspiration, humor and presence altogether and in large quantities. What a great luck and richness it is to know you.

    All the best for your recovery!!!!!!!

    Lene (Danish Energy Agency),

    - just listening to Punky Physicist downloaded from ITunes (album: Jazz Meeting 1, I’ll warmly recommend that to all !!!!)

     

    Lene Nielsen

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:27 PM

    Hi Lee,

    EMBARQ Brasil´s team (in case you do not know yet, this is the way CTS-Brasil is called now) wishes a prompt recovery. We need your passion and inspiration. I still own you a wine tour at this latitude&longitude to prove that only our sparkling wine is good! For the time being as your doctor to administer a Xingu – never seen someone that loves it like you.
    forte abraço,
    Toni

     

    Toni Lindau

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:15 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I’m sending lots of love and positive energy your way. You are a bright (and efficient) light in a sometimes dark world, and I look forward to seeing you shine.
    All my best,

     

    Mark Delucchi

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:13 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

     

    EMBARQ Brasil is growing fast. Now we are 18 passionate people working hard to make a better world. Thank you for the good example and for always thinking outside the box. We always repeat your funny stories to all the team, encouraging them to never give up.

     

    Hope you get recovered soon to enjoy some more Xingus with us.

     

    Warm hug,

     

    Daniela (EMBARQ Brasil)

     

     

    Daniela Facchini

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 2:05 PM

     

    Apreciados Lee y familia,

    Estamos con Uds., we are with you.  I ended up in this game thank to you, I appreciate it and will keep doing avoid and shift, the best ways to improve quality of life, health, and the environment.  Good transport will continue to be better than just improving technology.  Thanks for your insights, we will keep transporting transformation in EMBARQ and elsewhere.

     

    Dario Hidalgo

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 1:57 PM

    Dear Lee,

    I was so sorry to hear of your illness.  I have fond memories of the too-short time we worked together at WRI, at the very beginning of the EMBARQ program.  And now I am looking forward to working with Lisa on IPCC – it is so odd to span generations like that!  I wish you and your family all the best.
    Tony Janetos

     

    Tony Janetos

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 12:48 PM

     

    Querido Lee,

    I am sending you my thoughts and wishing that you will recover soon. We miss you lots!

    Un abrazo con afecto,

     

    Claudia

     

    Claudia Adriazola

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 12:47 PM

     

    Dear Lee and family

    I can only hope that somehow you will get well and we will all continue to enjoy your amazing intellect, humor, jazz playing, and leemail!

    You have touched so many of us and helped us be better at what we do!

    A huge hug

    Rafael

     

    Rafael Friedmann

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 12:24 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I am in Virginia now. I was driving to northern Virginia yesterday and saw the new extension of metro being built out to Dulles airport. Exciting! New transit always makes me think of you.
    Are you happy about the new CAFE regulations? I wonder if the Japanese/Germans will pay to get out of them in the future?
    Talk to you soon!
    Laura

     

    Laura Schewel

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 11:45 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I still recall with pleasure the workshop on commercial energy use that we organized at EPRI in 1986. We had a number of European participants. The Dutch kept saying that the hot water in the EPRI bathrooms was too hot, and the French explained why they have a separate building category for bread bakeries. Particularly memorable was the workshop dinner featuring your band, with you of course on keyboards. You explained to me how vibraphone technique had progressed from Lionel Hampton to Milt Jackson to Gary Burton. I wish you the best.

     

     

    Ray Squitieri

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 10:52 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    I just wanted to wish all the best, and that you get well soon!

    Best regards,

    Rodrigo Castilho (from EMBARQ-Brasil).

     

    Rodrigo Castilho

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 9:59 AM

     

    Hello Lee!  I am always pleased and proud to think of your work at IEA, and elsewhere, on ”energy efficiency indicators”, that is, measuring progress, documenting trends, and sorting out explanations.

    It takes me back to my days at MIT, where I worked on measurs of “industrial energy productivity”.  Even today (like last Wednesday), IEA boasted of its long history in the field, founded and inspired by you.

    I wish you all the best.  You are a good friend and a respected colleague.

    Bob Marlay

     

    Bob Marlay

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 9:37 AM

    Hi Lee,

    I’m sending you all good wishes from here in Montreal.

    I haven’t gone to Ottawa yet, but hopefully will make it over sometime soon to meet your friends at Transport Canada – and figure out how they come up with their energy numbers.

    I love the photos of you on the vibraphone, and remember well your performances at Asilomar and in SF.

    Yours,

    Adam

    Adam Millard-Ball

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 8:38 AM

    Lee
    I heard from Lyne that you are in the hospital. I send you all my energy and loves. I just went to the IPCC meeting on S. Korea in July and I met Ma Josefina Figueroa and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz. Incredible it is 20 years ago that we were together at LBL. With so many others we fill so proud to be your students.

    I fill that it was just yesterday that we were together at LBL, and then some years later visiting Mexico´s down town with my mother, or going to Teotihuacan with my children…and then some years later, working together to set up the Mexico City´s Metrobus. I have learned so much from you….please, take care… you are in our hearts.

    Claudia
    Claudia Sheinbaum

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 8:27 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    get well soon. When we had last met in Tokyo we had planned
    to get you over to Delhi in December. You must keep that commitment.

    The Transport Policy Committee is hoping to find answers to all the questions that you have raised from time to time but would like to discuss them with you. That is another reason why you should visit India.

    All the best

     

    Sanjivi Sundar

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 5:46 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    I’m back in from the Alps and connected to the internet again. I know that that concept “being out of internet connection” is both a rather foreign and slightly loathsome one to you — I still can see you in your shorts in the early morning heat in Bali positioning your laptop just so to get a useable WIFI signal!!

    One of the brilliant things about the internet is that it is allowing all of us to tell you how much we are thinking and rooting for you. Of course, I and many other of your friends around the world would much rather catch up with you in person but as I understand that visits are a bit tiring for you right now, we will just have to trust that we can meet up with you again when all of this is behind you ;-)

    Going over the pictures of you here, I couldn’t help but be reminded of your unusual penchant for loud shirts and even louder ties. However, recalling the explanation given by Queen Elizabeth for her selection of bright-colored clothes and matching hats, I suddenly had a revelation. She stated in essence that the Queen must wear bright colours so that she is instantly recognizable and easily stands out in a crowd — so too for you, you sneaky devil!

    That said, I might have thought that your exuberent beard might have served just as nicely.

    In any case, none of these artifices were necessary — your wit, cheer and awful puns are more than enough to set you apart from your peers!! In any case, they are three of your many qualities that I look forward to sharing again with you soon!!

    Very best regards from Paris!

    Philippe

     

    Philippe Crist

  • MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011 3:13 AM

     

    Dear Lee and family,

    I’ve just commented on your photo at the STL meeting in Brussels.

    I shall be over in SF to go to Asilomar at the end of August so hope to be able to pass by and say hi. Since I’m now responsible for taking forward the work on EU CO2 from cars for 2020 as well as post 2020 and lead the team to address all road vehicle GHG emissions I’ll be looking forward to some advice ;-)

    In the meantime I was impressed by your beard when you meet the king of Sweden!

    My thoughts are with you all.

     

    Ian Hodgson

  • SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011 10:29 PM

    Dear Lee (and family),

    I’m beginning to remind me of you: fifth trip to China this year, also London and Paris.  If you don’t start flying soon I’ll have more miles than you this year — for the first time ever!

    On these recent travels, I’ve thought of you often — which of course makes me laugh at your antics over the years.  I also realized that you participated in (and strongly influenced) three major events in my professional life: coming to LBNL (I still remember your exact words); getting involved in the Singapore (then ASEAN) project (you said that once I saw Asia I would never get it out of my skin), and my turning to China (the 1987 conference that would not have happened — and certainly wouldn’t have been half as much fun — without you).

    Now that I’m back from travel, I look forward to seeing you.  As your Lisa has pointed out, I’ll call first and stand in line to get a chance to come by.

    Mark

    Mark Levine

  • SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011 4:53 PM

    Lee,

    I’m giving you full credit for President Obama’s new auto mileage standard!     This is the kind of big step forward that you’re always promoting…..56 mpg, he’s just letting the industry take longer to get there than you would!
    You truly are one of the few people who have gained and maintained extremely high credibility with those of us who were on the receiving end of your reports and recommendations to the White House, DOE, EPA and the Congress — at least to those of us on the “D” side of the aisle.  There is still a lot more to do.
    I’m in New York City and having dinner tonight with a close friend who is a cancer survivor.   I look forward to doing that with you too.
    All the best,
    TJ

     

    TJ Glauthier

  • SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011 11:12 AM

     

    Hi Lee,

    I heard from Yuki that you are hospitalized .  I hope that you are resting well.  I took vacation two weeks ago, and went to Alaska.  I saw a lot of bears, and some of them were fishing salmon.  Somehow they reminded of you.  I have a chance to visit SF in September and hope to visit you.   I still remember you owe me a nice dinner with nice California wine.  I hope that you still remember this.

    Take good rest and care, and I am hoping to see you soon.

    Shigenori

    Shigenori Hiraoka

  • SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011 4:49 AM

    Hi Lee, we’ve only met a few times, most recently in Bangkok where we had dinner with Lisa and Markus and I had to leave early to catch a flight. We talked about meeting up again in December when I’ll be in San Francisco for the IPCC authors’ meeting, so you’d better make sure you’re there!

    Very best wishes from Stockholm!

     

    Richard Klein

  • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 7:51 PM

     

    Hi Lee,

     

    I’m here on the east coast wishing you the best in California!  Your enthusiasm and ideas are infectious and it is always a pleasure working with you… I’m looking forward to many more conversations about cars, fuel economy, and making the world a better place!

     

    Kenny

     

    Kenneth Gillingham

  • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 4:40 PM

     

    Dear Lee,

    Hope the treatments are going well, but know how tough this is. Kim, my niece, is receiving chemo in SF for brain tumors.

    I had dinner this evening with Richard Klein, and he sends his best wishes to you. Also, Marcus Carson at SEI as well, who apparently has met you and knows Lisa.

    They asked for the site address and am sending it to them, almost 12pm Swedish time.

    All the best,

    Tom

     

     

     

     

     

    tom burns

  • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 12:43 PM

    CPUC Commissioner Florio was at LBNL yesterday for the whole day! He was learning about the lab and we had lots of “old people” (i.e., your old colleagues) talk about their ongoing work – Rick Diamond, Chuck Goldman, Max Sherman, Iain Walker, Mary Ann Piette, etc. Florio is interested in many issues, including the energy/water nexus, impact of PVs on utility grid, and utility programs promoting energy efficiency in residential, commercial and industrial areas. I wished you were there, since I know Florio would have liked your input. Top-down modeling, lifestyles and indicators are still “hot topics”. When you get back, we can discuss.

    Ed

    Ed Vine

  • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 8:19 AM

    Hey Lee,

    It is all ultimately about human connection.

    Just want to let you know that with your love of music, your love of energy issues, your enthusiasm, your sense of humor, you connected with me.

    You are a role model !!

    Being a biological organism in a social species on an unusual planet orbiting an ordinary star turns out to be far stranger than any of us bargained for. Hope you are keeping perspective and appreciating that you are appreciated.

    Best,

    Ken

    PS. Play them vibes !!

    Ken Caldeira

  • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011 1:10 AM

    Hi Lee,

    2 weeks ago, I visited to Delhi. You know? Delhi have already developed a smart railway from airport to the center of Delhi. It takes only 20 min, just like the Heathrow express. On the other hand, Delhi metro was not good partly, I think. They have the platforms for 4 car train, but they use only 2 car train, because of the lack of their budget. Then they were really crowded, indeed. Is it a bit too early to install the subway system for India?

    By the way now I send the admin of this site some photos in Copenhagen and TRB. I am so happy if you will enjoy them.

    Please and please take care, Lee and I hope to see you soon!

    Iwao

    Iwao Matsuoka

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 8:46 PM

    Hi Lee,

    I am waiting for you so that we can take a ride in the little fast car. I have a route all planned out. I hope you are back back soon as you are a great inspiration to a lot of students and besides, where else would they get such good information about transportation? I have heard such great things about your class.
    Take care and I will be seeing you soon.

     

    Mark Jacobson

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 8:19 PM

    Lee,

    It’s payback time. You’ve sent so many emails to stay in touch with your colleagues and friends. Now you don’t need to reply, but we can channel your enthusiasm and spirit into notes to you:-)

    My colleague is counting the days until she gets her Leaf, so she can get back into the carpool lane to Stanford. Her Prius won’t qualify anymore…progress in action.

    thinking of you…

    Leigh Johnson

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 5:01 PM

    Hi, Lee.

    Your photo on the top page reminds me of our big event in Copenhagen and I remembered we had a good time there.  You know, you meant really a lot for our project.
    I will ask my former colleagues to send more photos of you!
    I want to visit you soon.
    Please do take care.

    Yuki

    Yuki Tanaka

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 4:29 PM

    Lee,

    The Obama Administration will propose that the CAFE standards be raised to 52 mpg by 2025.  While this is the wrong way to go about it (carbon taxes would be better), I think it is a real tribute to and a direct result of the work you have done — persistent, often bold, always funny — to persuade people that improvements can and should be made.  Now we need to deal with HSR and freight fuel efficiency…

    Lou Thompson

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 3:50 PM

    Hi Lee,
    I’m looking at a picture of you and me dressed up for some conference some time in the mid-80s. We both had good beards then! We did have some fun.
    Sending you good vibes (ha!) –
    fondly,
    Steve

    Steve Meyers

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 3:21 PM

    Hi Lee,

    Greetings from Snowmass.  Tom Wilbanks sends his very best regards.
    We are discussing water, land, energy, climate change, with lots of really interesting research.  The ability to couple models has improved significantly in the past few years, with models capturing more regional and sectoral nuances.  Several projects are providing detailed regional information that will be really useful to decision makers.  Next week includes discussions on including uncertainty in IAM.
    It has been awhile, but I fondly recall joining you, Steve, and a few others at a dinner for Bert Metz at Flea Street.  Unfortunately, they don’t do lunch any longer.  Terry and I had wanted to go there last week; we went somewhere else for lunch and she went there for dinner with her brother Bryan.  It was a difficult day that she handled in her usual elegant way.
    Best regards,
    Kris

     

    Kristie Ebi

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 2:10 PM

     

    Hi Lee:

    I am just coming back from long-distance travel.  I was listening to Brahms No. 1 with Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonics while on the plane, which was overwhelming.  There is still music after Celibidache!

    Please do get better soon.  I would even tolerate having Beethoven Symphonies as background music in our office, for a limited period only (of course!), as long as it helps your recovery process.

    Hope to see you soon,

    Andreas

     

    Andreas Schafer

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 11:23 AM

     

    Dear Lee,

    I really miss you! It’s my honor to know an excellent scholar like you with a sense of humor. And you are also the fastest person answering all of my numerous academic and non-academic emails. I really appreciate it.

    Maryland weather is so hot, perhaps I should go to California sometime soon and buy you Korean beer :) This might be a good time because my family went back to Korea to spend summer. So, let me know as soon as you get home. Perhaps we can discuss about the freight paper there with Lou over Korean beer.

    Lee, as a beliver, I am praying for your complete recovery. Everything will go well. Have a good rest there, you’ve been so busy with lots of things. Keep in touch!

    Best regards,

    Jiyong

     

     

    Jiyong Eom

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 8:17 AM

    Hi Lee,

    We miss you here! I really like having you on the 3rd floor of Y2E2 because we run into each other a lot and it is easy to keep up. Kind of like in Bldg 90 at the lab.

    If you have any good suggestions for Energy Seminar speakers, let me know. We are busy planning for the year. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about our next vehicle showcase. How about electric bikes and skateboards?

    Thinking fond thoughts of you and your family, and wishing for a speedy return.

    Sally

    Sally Benson

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 7:56 AM

    Hi Lee,

    I am missing you a lot here at Stanford. Just drove the Nissan Leaf the other day – really liked it. It might look a bit too funky but very smooth ride and good features to diminish “range anxiety”. You will have great fun to figure out if the roundtrip Berkeley-Stanford is possible in one day. Anyway, would be nice to chat about this with you and also continue our conversation on how many “miles per hour”-charging the average consumer needs. I really miss the exchange with you.
    Get well soon, I need you here at CARS.
    All best,

     

    Sven Beiker

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 3:19 AM

    Hi Lee,

    I have a good souvenir of the first time that I met you. In fact, we didn’t quite meet. You were giving a talk at RFF and I was in the audience. Alan Krupnick then introduced you as someone that needs no introduction. I really enjoyed that talk. You were simply engaging. You care about what you do and the issues that you are working on. That’s inspiring. I hope you will be well soon and I look forward seeing again at Stanford.
    Sebastien
    Sebastien Houde

     

    Sebastien Houde

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 12:25 AM

    Hi Lee,

    We miss you at Stanford and know your wonderful sunny personality will help you with this fight! I am thinking of you daily and hoping your health improves and you are able to rest well. Best to your wife and daughters too.

    Leigh Johnson

    Leigh Johnson

  • FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 12:19 AM

    Lee:

    Today I saw Job 2 of the new Fisker Karma, a PHEV, with 50 mile battery range.  Ray Lane showed me his new Karma, the second production vehicle, the first one Fisker sold.  What a beautiful car!  You will enjoy the Fisker web site  athttp://www.fiskerautomotive.com.  Seeing the videos will be much more fun than staying in bed with nurses harassing you.  Unfortunately, the price is somewhat above $100,000, so I didn’t put in an order for either you or me.

    I look forward to seeing you again when I come back from Snowmass.

    Jim

    Jim Sweeney

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