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Obama’s Renewable-Energy Plan: Let’s Raise the Roof
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama promised to use his executive authority to accelerate the construction of 10 gigawatts of renewable energy installations on public lands. But, as encouraging as this announcement was, the administration could and should go beyond public lands by focusing on public roofs.
GSA Challenges ESCOs to Retrofit to Net Zero
Energy service companies (ESCOs) have provided billions of dollars worth of energy savings through building retrofits — and inspired even the most reluctant clients to seek out energy efficiency. Yet certain building owners can achieve far greater energy and cost savings through the adoption of deep energy retrofits
Think Bigger: Hidden Costs of Design Decisions
Steven Forrester’s small Colorado engineering firm is four years old. While he started DMA Engineering during tough economic times, he is holding his own because of clients like the city of Louisville, where his firm recently designed a solar thermal lap pool for a city recreation center.
Top RMI news of 2011
Amory Lovins is on Twitter! Exciting, yes, but that was not the only news from RMI in 2011.
Social Design in Sustainability: A Conversation with Organizational Psychologist David DuBois
While RMI may focus more heavily on, say, the shape of pipes than behavior of building occupants, our recent work bridging the split incentives for saving energy between tenants and landlords keeps coming back to questions of corporate culture and individual choices as essential factors in achieving deeper energy savings.