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RMI Relaunches Community Energy Opportunity Finder
One great way community members can get involved in energy-efficiency planning in their town or city is with RMI's Community Energy Opportunity Finder (www.energyfinder.org). Updated and relaunched in January 2007, the "Energy Finder" is an interactive, web-based tool that enables community members and local leaders to explore their community's untapped opportunities for economic development, pollution prevention, and risk reduction through energy efficiency. The revitalized Energy Finder includes a case-study of a real-life community, reorganization of site information, and an update of Energy Information Administration (EIA) statistics used in Energy Finder calculations. These improvements were made to an already important and unique tool.
"The Energy Finder mimics an expert consultant's preliminary analysis of what a community can do to save money and create jobs through energy efficiency, but costs the community nothing," said project director Michael Kinsley of RMI's Breakthrough Design Team.
One great way community members can get involved in energy-efficiency planning in their town or city is with RMI's Community Energy Opportunity Finder (