Robert Hutchinson is a Senior Fellow at RMI.
It’s an exciting time for electric vehicles (EVs). As the number of models increase and the prices decrease, it seems that pretty soon there will be an EV for all needs at an affordable price. And between the Volkswagen settlement (which includes some money for electric vehicle…
Finance decision makers should think about real estate more often, because a company’s real estate footprint affects that company greatly, often in ways of which people are not aware.
Five years ago RMI embarked on a body of work to advance what we call deep retrofits, energy-efficiency retrofits that save 50 percent or more of a building’s energy consumption. Half a decade later, it’s time to reflect on how far we’ve come with our Retrofit Initiative … and how far we still have to go.
In Bangladesh, where I went to speak recently, the effects of the changing climate are already obvious. And the results—people piling into cities as their rural lands and livelihoods wash away—are obvious too.