Electricity
How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges of the New Energy Era?
If you've have heard about Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute's roadmap for a secure, renewable energy future, and are like almost everyone with whom I have talked about it, you wonder where to start. This blog is the first of several by RMI staff to help business leaders identify the steps they can take now to begin seizing the economic and competitive opportunities available by leading in the new energy era.
A 2.6X Economy with No Oil, Coal, or Nukes: Amory Lovins Explains at Xconomy Event on Feb. 16
What if you could “do” fire completely differently? Well, Reinventing Fire is the provocative title of a new book co-authored by energy visionary Amory Lovins, the cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (link to www.rmi.org). Originally published at http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/02/13/a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216-a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216/
Texas Grocer Slashes Energy Use
Which commercial building sector uses more energy per square foot than all but one other and is more than twice as energy-intensive as office buildings and schools? Grocery stores, second only to food service.
My Response to WSJ’s “The Problem With Going Green”
David Owen continues to blame energy efficiency for the ills he ascribes to growth and wealth. His misunderstandings of “rebound” in energy use were devastatingly rebutted when he published them in The New Yorker, and now he’s expanded them to book length. But his post here…
RMI Solar Program Live Chat: Questions and Answers
If solar equipment, installation and other costs continue to drop, solar energy will be increasingly competitive in more markets after the scheduled end of solar tax credits in 2016, RMI experts told participants in a live web chat last week.
