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What's New @ www.rmi.org
This page provides a listing of some of the recent additions and new materials available on the RMI website.
05 December 2006
- Energy Guru Lovins Sheds Management Duties to Plot 'Oil Endgame'
- Late last month Lovins announced that he would be shedding his role as CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the energy and environmental "think and do tank" he founded in 1982. Free of management responsibilities, the Oxford-trained experimental physicist will become the Snowmass, Colorado, organization's board chairman and chief scientist. Lovins says the move will enable him to work more closely with Army manufacturers and others on RMI's ambitious "Winning the Oil Endgame" strategy.
(Library > Energy)
20 November 2006
- Rocky Mountain Institute to Expand Leadership Team in Response to Remarkable Opportunities
- Rocky Mountain Institute CEO and founder Amory B. Lovins announced that RMI's leadership team is expanding to allow him a more active strategic role in launching and advancing RMI's high-visibility projects. "It's my pleasure to announce that RMI has begun a search for a new CEO with exceptional substance and vision to lead RMI through its next phase of developing and executing ambitious goals."
(Media Materials >
Press Releases & RMI Announcements)
02 November 2006
- RMI Releases it's 2005–2006 Annual Report
- RMI Releases its 2005–2006 Annual Report titled "Unusual Partners."
(Library > About RMI)
20 October 2006
- Green City Solutions: Sustainabilty Directors Conference
- This conference, which takes place November 2nd and 3rd, is an invite only event, convening individuals in local governments around the country (and one from Canada) who are leading their respective cities'/counties' sustainability efforts. The purpose of the conference is to bring these sustainability professionals together to share the challenges they are facing and the approaches being taken to overcome those challenges. Though best practices relative to specific sustainability programs will be discussed, such discussions will take place in the context of the management challenges and cultural, structural, and operational change challenges that conference participants encounter everyday.
(Communities > Sustainabilty Directors Conference)
09 June 2006
- RMI Solutions Summer 2006 Newsletter Now On-line
- -Greening a Giant—RMI Takes on Wal-Mart...as a Client
- -Winning the Oil Endgame, Thus Far—Two Years of Exciting Developments in Implementation
- -High-Performance Buildings Through Integrated Design—Strategies Toward Sustainable Development
- -Hawai'i Takes the Lead in Energy Independence—Interview with Hawai‘i Governor Linda Lingle
(Newsletter)
16 May 2006
- Green Future?—RMI's Amory Lovins is interviewed on the BBC
- Stephen Sackur, host of the BBC's HARDtalk, talks to green technology consultant Amory Lovins about his proposals to reduce CO2 emissions—and end our dependence on oil. This video clip requires RealOne Player.
(BBC News)
31 March 2006
- Saving the World, Having Fun, and Making Money—RMI's Blog
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RMI's Media and Outreach Specialist, Cory Lowe, brings his sharp eye and wit to the world of efficiency, resources, and technology.
(About RMI > RMI's Blog...and More)
10 March 2006
- "Energy Efficiency Today" Interview with Dr. Joel Swisher
- Dr. Joel Swisher, managing director, Research & Consulting for Rocky Mountain Institute, speaks with Peter Johnson (KAJX—Aspen, Colorado) about a range of eco-matters, from global warming to efficient new laptop batteries.
(Research & Consulting > Radio Interview with Joel Swisher)
27 February 2006
- Even Wal-Mart and the Pentagon are Warming to Energy Conservation
- Compact fluorescent light bulbs and hybrid cars were seen as quirky five years ago, weird 10 years ago and nearly unheard of before that. The only people advocating energy-saving technologies such as hybrid cars and green building design 30 years ago were thinking way ahead. Not these days. During Super Bowl XL this year, both Toyota and Ford paid big bucks to advertise their new fuel-efficient hybrid models. And energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs doubled their share of the market between 1999 and 2006. As energy-efficiency first gained a toehold in the U.S., Rocky Mountain Institute in Old Snowmass has been in the forefront, advocating market-based, conservation-minded changes. But only recently have so many of RMI's solutions reached the mainstream. It doesn't stop at consumer choices. President George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union speech sounded like parts could have been lifted straight from a book by RMI's co-founder, Amory Lovins.
(Media Materials > Recent News Coverage of RMI)
13 February 2006
- RMI Solutions Spring 2006 Newsletter Now On-line
- -Surprises and Resilience—Mishap or Malice Regularly Crash the Electricity System
- -The Cool Way to Save Natural Gas—Climate-Change-Induced Extremes in Our Weather are Already Wreaking Havoc
- -Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Home—Make Your Household Energy Dollar Go Further
- -A New Era for Electric Utilities—Today's Electric Utilities Are Extraordinarily Effective
- -RMI Offers Many Ways to Support Our Work—Options for Supporting Our Cutting-Edge Work
(Newsletter)
26 January 2006
- India and China Dominate Davos Agenda: A Man With a Mission
- The Davos agenda is packed. Too packed for many. Amory Lovins runs the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental research lab. He pulls out two large pieces of paper, tightly printed in small font to list the talks he has to give, sessions he hopes to attend, and the numerous events he would really love to go to but is unlikely to be able to squeeze in. He dives into his backpack, pulls out a bowl and bangs it hard with a metal stick without making a dent. "I'll give a speech to a meeting of the chief executives of all the world's top car makers this week," he says. "I'll show them this new light-weight carbon fibre thermo plastic composite material", which is lighter than steel or aluminium, just as tough and will do wonders for fuel efficiency.
Article by Tim Weber, Business Editor, BBC News website.
(Media Materials > 2006 News Coverage of RMI)
25 January 2006
- Leaving Appalachia Right Side Up...At a Profit
- Recent article written by Amory Lovins for Orion Magazine. Coal fired power plants generate half of U.S. electricity. Yet mountaintop removal, smokestack pollution, and global warming aren't inevitable; they're artifacts of using electricity in ways that waste money. Most of the electricity used today, whether in the U.S. or in even more coal-intensive countries like China, can be saved by using it far more efficiently. Fifteen years ago, the utility industry's Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a team of researchers at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) came to essentially the same conclusion. This article appeared the January/February 2006 issue of Orion Magazine.
(Media Materials > Recent Articles by RMI Authors)
23 January 2006
- The Energizer
- Amory Lovins has a vision: The U.S. economy keeps going and going and going—without any oil. "I think hydrogen will be an important if not dominant energy carrier by 2050," says Amory Lovins. "In Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com), the comprehensive strategy we've developed at Rocky Mountain Institute for ending oil dependence, we see hydrogen as an optional add-on. It would be the most profitable and efficient way to use and save natural gas. But it's not necessary to get the country off oil at a profit; it's just icing on the cake." Many automakers are starting to understand that whoever goes ultralight first will take the lead in the hydrogen fuel-cell race. The winning strategy will be improving the physics of the car. They still need to make a cheap, durable fuel cell. But if they can reduce the fuel cell and the hydrogen storage volume by three times, the cost reduces threefold.
Article by Cal Fussman for Discover Magazine.
(Media Materials > 2006 News Coverage of RMI)
23 January 2006
- Analysis: And Along Came Lovins
- Thirty years ago, as the U.S. was engaged in a policy debate about the future of nuclear power, a debate that ultimately resulted (with the help of Three Mile Island) in the collapse of the nuclear industry, a new figure appeared. An obscure academic named Amory Lovins published an article in the prestigious journal Foreign Affairs, advocating what he called the "soft energy path." Lovins' notion was that small, green, and friendly technologies, plus increased energy efficiency, could better do the job of providing increased energy resources than the traditional, hard technologies such as nukes and fossil-fueled central station generators. Regardless of the technical merits of his arguments, Lovins proved to be correct about the big picture. Thirty years later, to the year, there is much talk of a nuclear renaissance. And onto the scene once again comes Amory Lovins, writing this time in the less well-known journal Nuclear Engineering International. His message is much the same.
Article by Staff for The Electricity Daily.
(Media Materials > 2006 News Coverage of RMI)
18 January 2006
- A Green Dream In Texas
- "Green building is not necessarily about producing your own power with windmills and solar panels. It's about addressing the consumption side with really creative design and engineering to eliminate waste and reduce energyusage—it's the next industrial revolution," said Paul Westbrook, who oversees sustainable design for Texas Instruments and helped turn T.I. leaders on to green building by taking them to his solar-powered home. "Green building added some cost, but over all we built a green building for 30 percent less per square foot than our previous conventional facility." This is expected to cut utility costs by 20 percent and water usage by 35 percent. This article appeared in The New York Times (18 January 2006).
(Media Materials > 2006 News Coverage of RMI)
29 December 2005
- Mighty Mice: Amory Lovins Explains to the Nuclear Industry Who Its Most Formidable Competitors Are
- In this guest article in the UK-published Nuclear Engineering International, Amory Lovins explains to the industry who its most formidable competitors are: not central coal- or gas-fired power plants, but micropower and efficient use. These are already adding more than ten times as much global capacity per year, and, being much cheaper, provide more climate solution per dollar and per year.
(Library > Energy)
23 November 2005
- Employment Opportunities at RMI—2006 Internships
- RMI is seeking a few qualified candidates.
• RMI Energy & Resources Team Internship
• RMI Integrative Design Team Internship
• Implementation of Winning the Oil Endgame Internship
(About RMI > Employment Opportunities)
23 November 2005
- RMI Releases Comments to NHTSA on Revised Light-Truck CAFE Standards
- RMI Releases it's newest transportation publication, #T05-13 "Comments to NHTSA on Revised Light-Truck CAFE Standards." On 23 August 2005, NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) proposed adopting RMI's recommendation of a size- rather than weight-based structure for future light-truck CAFE standards. This 22 November 2005 comment from the Institute applauds NHTSA for this proposal as well as suggests future opportunities for improvement.
(Library > Transportation)
26 October 2005
- RMI Releases 2004–2005 Annual Report
- -Abundance by Design
- -RMI's Bridge Construction: People at Work
- -Winning the Oil Endgame
- -RMI Energy & Resources Team—Looking Forward to Carbon Limits?
- -RMI Integrative Design Team—Designing the Integration
- -RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team—Build it Green and They Will Come (Around)
- -Strategic Influence
- -National Solutions Council—Solutions, National and Beyond
(Library > About RMI)
17 October 2005
- RMI Releases New "Design for Health" Summit Report
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RMI releases it's newest Built Environment publication, #D05-11 "Design for Health: Summit for Massachusetts Health Care Decision Makers." Presented in this report, the primary goal of the Design for Health Summit was to bring together leading health care facility decision makers, discuss the arguments for and evidence supporting "healthy design," and brainstorm initiatives and implementation strategies to achieve healthier hospitals—healthier for patients, healthier for staff, healthier for the environment and community, and healthier for hospital financial security. Included in this report are Summit recommendations for individual hospital policies, collective actions and initiatives, and strategies for higher performance architectural and engineering systems.
(Library > Buildings & Land)
28 September 2005
- RMI Solutions Fall 2005 Newsletter Now On-line
- -Green Design Practice Joins RMI
- -Why We Work with the Military
- -Setting the Record Straight on Ethanol
- -Nuclear Follies Meet Market Realities
- -National Solutions Council Launches Exciting Program
- -A Small but Encouraging Step Toward Making Light Trucks
- -What Should Be Done in New Orleans?
- -A Temporary/Transitional Solution for Post-Katrina Settlements
(Newsletter)
14 September 2005
- RMI Releases New Energy Economics Paper
- RMI's newest energy publication, E05-08–"Nuclear Power: Economics and Climate-Protection Potential," documents a dramatic and little-known development: worldwide, efficient use of electricity plus decentralized low- or no-carbon electric generation are already at least twice as big as nuclear power and growing an order of magnitude faster, simply because they cost far less. New nuclear plants not only can't compete with central coal and gas plants, but also can't compete by hopelessly wide margins with these cheaper decentralized alternatives.
(Library > Energy)
06 September 2005
- Pebble Bed Modular Reactors–Status and Prospects
- Economist and nuclear expert Jim Harding, former Director of Power Planning and Forecasting for Seattle's municipal utility, has updated his February 2004 paper on modular gas-cooled nuclear reactors. So few independent commentaries are available on this widely touted proposal by developers in South Africa (and, with variations, in China) that RMI is pleased to post his paper here by kind permission.
(Library > Energy)
29 August 2005
- RMI Releases New Energy Efficiency Article
- RMI's newest energy efficiency publication, C05-05–"More Profit With Less Carbon," discusses how focusing on energy efficiency will do more than protect Earth's climate—it will make businesses and consumers richer. Amory Lovins describes how using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza—not because of the benefits of stopping global warming but because saving fossil fuel is a lot cheaper than buying it. This article appeared in the September 2005 issue of Scientific American.
(Library > Climate)
23 August 2005
- Mile by Mile, Into the Oil Trap
- It's true that there is no silver bullet that will entirely solve America's energy problem, but there is one that goes a long way: more efficient cars. If American cars averaged 40 miles per gallon, we would soon reduce consumption by 2 million to 3 million barrels of oil a day. That could translate into a sustained price drop of more than $20 a barrel. And getting cars to be that efficient is easy. For the most powerful study that explains how, read Winning the Oil Endgame by energy expert Amory Lovins (www.oilendgame.com ).
(Media Materials > 2005 News Coverage of RMI)
17 August 2005
- Boulder "Green" Design Firm, ENSAR, Joins Rocky Mountain Institute
- Two leaders in resource efficiency and environmentally sustainable building design today announced the consolidation of their practices. On Monday, Rocky Mountain Institute of Snowmass, Colorado and ENSAR Group of Boulder, Colorado announced that ENSAR Group has become a part of RMI's green real estate and development consultancy in a new RMI department, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment.
(Media Materials > Press Releases & RMI Announcements)
11 August 2005
- Consolidation: Key to the Future?—Why Integration May Win Out in the Long Run
- Amory Lovins was an early advocate of avoiding huge generators out of scale in relation to loads. Although his views never quite made it to the mainstream, they were influential in reinforcing the trend away from the size concepts associated with economies of scale—illustrated in recent years by the widespread advocacy of natural-gas combustion turbines as a source of generation.
(Media Materials > 2005 News Coverage of RMI)
26 July 2005
- Tilting at Energy Windmills
- Suddenly, lots more people are paying attention to Amory Lovins. Mr. Lovins's basic thesis: Energy efficiency is good business because it cuts costs—and that big moves to boost efficiency are better, and ultimately cheaper, than little ones. His latest grand idea: that the U.S. can drastically slash its oil consumption by shifting its auto fleet to vehicles built with carbon composites. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal (25 July 2005).
(Library > Energy)
14 July 2005
- Researchers Urge Environmental Responsibility
- Businesses large and small need to assess their dependence on natural resources. A report released Tuesday by an international panel of experts offered stern warnings to businesses on the environment while suggesting possible opportunities, which researchers say can be good for the planet and your bottom line. "There's a positive message in this: who better to solve these problems than businesses, and to make money doing it?" Chris Page, a Research Consultant for the Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit that advocates solving environmental problems without regulation. "Competitive business models and sustainability are complimentary," she said. "Waste is cost."
(Media Materials > 2005 News Coverage of RMI)
22 June 2005
- Nuclear Power's Scorned Small-Scale Competitors Are Walloping It in the Marketplace
- Rocky Mountain Institute researchers today doused the hype about "nuclear revival" in an icy bath of real-world data. They documented that worldwide, the decentralized, low- or no-carbon sources of electricity—cogeneration and renewables, all claimed by nuclear advocates to be too small and too slow to help much with climate change—are already bigger than nuclear power and are quickly leaving it in the dust.
(Media Materials > Press Releases & RMI Announcements)
21 June 2005
- RMI Solutions Summer 2005 Newsletter Now On-line
- -Security Meltdown—RMI's CEO Debunks Dangerous Nuclear Theology
- -Adaptive Management—The Response to the Twin Challenges of Energy and Climate Change
- -Creating a Balanced State Energy Policy
- -RMI Helps Manage the New Business of Climate
- -National Solutions Council Hits Full Stride
- -The Tsunami Response: A Reconstruction Opportunity
(Newsletter)
02 June 2005
- RMI Releases New Water Report
- RMI's latest report, Case Studies of Economic Analysis and Community Decision Making for Decentralized Wastewater Systems, was developed with the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project. It examines how communities consider and value the benefits and costs of onsite, cluster, and centralized wastewater system options in monetary or other terms, and examines the driving issues, motivations, thought processes, and decision-making methods of stakeholders relative to choices of wastewater system scale.
(Library > Water)
27 May 2005
- Integrated Wastewater Planning has Concrete Benefits
- Holistic analysis of a community’s wastewater needs leads to cost savings and better service, according to a new report from Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A related report from RMI and the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project (NDWRCDP) presents case studies that document the dynamics of the wastewater facility planning process.
(Media Materials >
Press Releases & RMI Announcements)
22 May 2005
- A Cuyahoga River Makeover—Plan Aims to Bolster Environment While Sustaining Industry
- The planners stress they want to work with industry. "We're not putting it [the river] out to pasture," said researcher Michael Kinsley with the Rocky Mountain Institute, a consultant hired by the county to plan reuse of the Cuyahoga Valley. "It's a rebirth."
(Media Materials > 2005 News Coverage of RMI)
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