Urban Transformation
Growing to Its Potential
Urban nature is a powerful tool to help cities reduce emissions, promote equity, and more. Scaled-up investment is needed to unlock valuable benefits.
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Urban Transformation
Blueprints for a Green City
Urban nature is a powerful tool to help cities reduce emissions, promote equity, and more. Scaled-up investment is needed to unlock valuable benefits.
Urban Transformation
Weathering Climate Disasters with Resilience Hubs
In the face of worsening extreme weather, cities are creating resilience hubs to provide communities with numerous health, economic, and environmental benefits.
Urban Transformation
Want Energy Resilience? Invest Locally.
Communities can leverage new federal funding to increase resilience in the face of increasing climate-induced disasters.
Urban Transformation
The Time is Ripe for Communities to Embrace Clean Energy on Brownfields
New federal incentives can help communities repurpose brownfields into brightfields, high-value sites that support a more equitable, clean energy economy. To speed this transition across America, RMI is co-launching the first ever Brightfields Accelerator.
Urban Transformation
Tackling Extreme Heat through Urban Forestry in Delhi
How Delhi — one of the world’s most heat-stressed cities — can take advantage of nature’s cooling potential.
Urban Transformation
The DMV: An Unlikely Climate Champion
America's network of Departments of Motor Vehicles could play a strong role in reducing passenger vehicle emissions via an innovative fee system.
Urban Transformation
3 Ways US Cities Broke Clean Energy Records in 2021
Local governments purchased a record amount of renewable energy in 2021 and three overarching trends stand out based on some of the most notable deals.
Urban Transformation
Community Solar+
Community solar projects can be strategically deployed to maximize local value streams and advance community-wide sustainability and equity goals.
Urban Transformation
Introducing Community Solar+: the Next Generation of Community Solar
Community Solar+ is community solar projects that are deliberately planned and strategically deployed to embrace added value streams and advance community-wide sustainability and equity goals.