Reinventing Fire Industry Sector Methodology

This document provides RMI's methodology for the analysis of the industry sector in Reinventing Fire.

 

Getting Off Oil: Recent Leaps and Next Steps

This article is a 2008 update on the progress of RMI's 2005 effort to implement Winning the Oil Endgame. In this article, Amory Lovins provides an update on recent progress in many of the sectors targeted in Winning the Oil Endgame. He also describes the steps required to implement the strategy fully in the auto industry.

 

Wanted: Masters of Elegant Frugality

This article describes how whole-system engineering can make very large savings cost less than the savings achieved by capturing the interactive effects between design components. The authors argue that as chemical engineering continues to accelerate economic progress, its most valuable practitioners will be those whose integrative design skills create radically greater resource productivity at lower costs.

 

Winning the Oil Endgame: Executive Summary

The Executive Summary of Winning the Oil Endgame briefly outlines RMI's strategic plan to end oil dependence by the 2040s.

 

Energy Forever

This article, which is the second in a two-part series, is about American energy security. The authors argue that a balanced, market-driven energy policy can make both—if we gracefully let go of the past, embrace what works, and do what most Americans want. The first article is "Mobilizing Energy Solutions" (RMI ID E02-01).

 

Energy Security: It Takes More Than Drilling

This editorial in the Christian Science Monitor describes how America can become more secure through energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources.

 

Saving Forests From the Demand Side

This presentation describes why forests should be saved and how. Specific actions that can be taken are described. This presentation was given to the World Resources Institute.