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40 Years Back, 40 Years Forward

Today, in 2013, we are approximately halfway between the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fossil-free future RMI envisions by 2050 in Reinventing Fire. There are both similarities and differences in what happened in the 70s and what is happening today.

A Self-Imposed Exile

If there was a silver lining, it was that the 1973 oil embargo prompted the U.S. to make real strides toward energy efficiency.

The Bank of America Tower – What Is and What Could Have Been

The Bank of America Tower is making headlines—of the wrong sort. Yet an evaluation of the Bank of America Tower’s energy use and green building certification is a bit more complicated than the one-dimensional headlines may suggest.