RMI's video archives include past RMIQs and other events, lectures by Chief Scientist Amory Lovins, and features on RMI's work in driving the profitable transition off fossil fuels to effiiciency and renewable energy.
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Featured Videos
Lightweighting
Watch RMI Chief Scientist Amory Lovins and Jon Fox-Rubin, President & CEO of Fiberforge (an RMI spinoff), discuss how lightweighting ensures vehicles use less fuel and less energy to get from "point A to point B."
Ending our Reliance on Oil
Watch Amory Lovins speak about ending our reliance on oil at this newly released TED Talk from 2005.
Read more about how, in the five years since his talk, the drive to get off this fossil fuel has accelerated—and is being led largely by private-sector innovation.
Profitable Solutions for Climate, Oil and Proliferation
Amory Lovins opened this year's Dean's Environment Society Lecture Series at Duke University.
Highlights Series from RMI2009: From Ideas to Solutions
(Use the arrows on either side to navigate through all the RMI2009 videos.)
Download Amory Lovins' presentation from the "Nuclear: Fix or Folly?" discussion session.
Amory Lovins Named Again to "Time 100" List in 2009
Other RMI Videos
RMI25: "Imagine a World"
Amory Lovins' transformative vision for a the future - "Imagine a World..."
(Download a PDF of the full text here)
RMI25: A RetroFuturespective
A look at RMI's past and future from our 25th anniversary celebration in 2007.
RMI's Innovation Workshops
Rocky Mountain Institute helps drive breakthrough thinking in resource efficiency through its unique Innovation Workshops.
High Performance Building: Perspective and Practice (Series)
(Use the arrows to navigate through the HPB series) Rocky Mountain Institute and the U.S. Green Building Council have partnered to produce a compelling film that documents the business case for building green.
Amory Lovins Receives the Volvo Environment Prize
At a ceremony in Stockholm November 1st, Amory B. Lovins, chief scientist of RMI, received the Volvo Environment Prize, awarded for “outstanding contribution to understanding or protecting the environment through scientific, socio-economic or technological innovation or discoveries of global or regional importance”.
RMI25: Lovins and Friedman Conversation
At the RMI25 Gala event, Pullitzer-Prize winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman sat down with Amory Lovins for a casual discussion about the Next 25 Years.
Greening the Empire State Building
For nearly 80 years the Empire State Building has been an icon of the New York City skyline. Built in another time of economic hardships, it was designed to symbolize America's limitless potential. Today the Empire State Building is undergoing a major sustainability retrofit, thereby becoming a leading example of economic and environmental revitalization.
E2 Series on PBS Features RMI Spin-off FiberForge
E2 Energy is a six-part series covering viable technology and policy alternatives that would lead us away from our fossil-fuel-based culture. Fiberforge’s Dr. John Fox-Rubin and RMI’s Amory Lovins are both featured in an episode titled “Paving the Way,” which examines vehicle lightweighting and fuel efficiency in cars and trucks.