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Leading the Curve
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WSJ: Before Adding, Try Reducing
Currently, the U.S. government is offering a lot of subsidies to expand renewable energy. However, according to Natalie Mims of RMI's Energy and Resources Team, similar subsidies are just as important to incentivize widespread adoption of efficiency technologies.More>>
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Bigger is better as long as it's lighter
The Detroit Automotive Technology Examiner examines the debate between large and light. More>>
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ARE Day 2009
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Along with other RMI staff in attendance, RMI Chief Scientist Amory Lovins will Keynote American Renewable Energy Day, August 20 - 22 in Aspen. ARE Day brings noted politicians, scientists and thought leaders from around the country together to promote effective renewable energy solutions to the urgent challenges of global warming. Learn more about ARE Day 2009 |
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RMI 2009
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Save the Date!
October 1 - October 3, 2009
RMI2009 From Ideas To Solutions |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Effective Policy to Bring us Beyond oil
The recent climate bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives might help us move towards an electricity supply with less carbon, but a different set of policies is needed to bring us beyond oil. RMI and the Brookings Institution created the Oil Solutions Initiative to help build a realistic and effective policy framework to break America's addiction to oil - and radically transform our transportation choices. Read recent Oil Solutions press coverage
Amory Lovins Keynote at the Virtual Energy Forum
RMI Chief Scientist Amory Lovins kicked off the Virtual Energy Forum - known as the world's largest online conference dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, and energy-efficiency practices in business. The Forum offers information on ways to improve profitability by implementing sustainable and cost-effective practices in business.
Other speakers include Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense Fund, Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director of International Energy Agency, and Kathy Baczko from the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), who will be speaking about the Empire State Building retrofit project--a joint effort between CCI and Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Helping Businesses/Organizations Make Money Doing What’s Right
Rocky Mountain Institute® (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do tank™. We envisage a world thriving, verdant, and secure, for all, for ever. To that end, our mission is to drive the efficient and restorative use of resources. RMI is engaged in cutting-edge research on oil independence, renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, resource planning, green buildings and radically efficient transportation.
Our innovations have profoundly influenced the energy sector, helped corporations to change how they do business and informed governments about key enabling policy reforms. RMI areas of expertise include: energy use and supply, buildings & land development, transportation, manufacturing, climate protection and community economic development.
RMI is a think and do tank. About half our support comes from individual donors and foundation grants, whose tax-deductible donations fund our leading edge research projects and implementation. The other half comes from earned revenue — from consulting for corporations and governments to implement the research findings made possible by our generous donors. Learn more about how to support RMI's research.
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Federal Energy Policy Goals
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RMI has released its Top Federal Energy Policy Goals, which can reduce U.S. oil use and greenhouse gas emissions each by 50 percent in 10 years.
Download RMI's Top Federal Energy Policy Goals |
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NSC Members' Green Home
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NSC members, Paul Holland and Linda Yates, are in the process of building a state of the art, net zero energy, fossil fuel free home. Click the image to download a detailed description of the building process. |
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Oil Map Webtool
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RMI's MOVE team has recently developed this dynamic, interactive map in partnership with Google. The map shows how much oil the U.S. has imported, from where, and how much we have spent every month since 1973.
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