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Smart Parking: A Launch Pad for Fully Integrated, Intelligent Transportation
In 2007, city drivers in a pint-sized 15-block district in Los Angeles drove more than 950,000 miles, emitted 730 metric tons of carbon dioxide, and burned 47,000 gallons of gas … searching for parking.
Safety in Numbers: Just How Risky Are Crowdsourced Investments in Renewables?
Some criticize solar crowdfunding for exposing inexperienced investors to undue risk, but RMI consultant Jesse Morris argues it appropriately compensates crowdfunders financially for low-risk investment, while also delivering social and environmental returns.
Show Me The Money: Boosting Investor Confidence Through Better Building Energy Efficiency Modeling
Deploying private capital for energy efficiency retrofits "could" be transformational, "but" investors lack the confidence in energy savings estimates against which lenders would underwrite loans. How do we boost that confidence?
Asia’s Accelerating Energy Revolution
In late 2012, RMI’s cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist Amory Lovins spent seven weeks in Japan, China, India, Indonesia, and Singapore observing Asia’s emerging green…
Breaking New England’s Natural Gas Addiction
This year I’m putting 60% of my retirement fund into Apple stock. I reason its recent string of product successes should continue unabated for the next 20 years, creating large returns with little risk. What could possibly go wrong, right?
