RMI Outlet
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Help Consumers Do More With Their Money: An Open Letter to Retailers
Hard goods retailers: would you rather your customers have an extra $34 billion in their pockets every year to spend or have them needlessly waste that cash buying electricity?
A Self-Imposed Exile
If there was a silver lining, it was that the 1973 oil embargo prompted the U.S. to make real strides toward energy efficiency.
Making Affordable Superefficient Homes a Reality
In Denver, teams of college students will design affordable, energy-efficient homes for the city’s Sustainability Park.
The Bank of America Tower – What Is and What Could Have Been
The Bank of America Tower is making headlines—of the wrong sort. Yet an evaluation of the Bank of America Tower’s energy use and green building certification is a bit more complicated than the one-dimensional headlines may suggest.
Taking the bull by the horns
Achieving deep energy retrofits is an essential part of achieving our nation’s energy-use-reduction targets. But we’re not going to get there using the same, tired process that we have been using for the past 20 years. That’s where, surprisingly enough, a federal agency is stepping in and taking the bull by the horns.
