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Discovering “Green Gold” in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, like cities across the nation, faces the challenge of reducing resource use and saving taxpayer dollars. The retrofit of the Indianapolis City-County Building provided the spark for the mayor and city staff to begin the process of comprehensively addressing energy use across the entire Indianapolis municipal building portfolio.
A Renewable and Resilient Electricity System
Electricity is the connective tissue of the information age, powering everything from toasters to giant data centers and making possible virtually every transaction in daily life. Yet while the “information economy” creates new value by innovating to meet diverse consumer preferences, the electricity system remains slow to respond and reluctant to adapt. Electricity driven by the speed of IT is needed.
RMI Annual Report: Accelerating a New Energy Era
“Our 30th year at Rocky Mountain Institute was the most exciting yet. It’s the year we moved from researching and publishing Reinventing Fire’s ‘grand synthesis’ of America’s energy solutions to scaling up their implementation.” –Amory B. Lovins, RMI cofounder and chief scientist
From the Archives: Thoughts on Election Season 2012: Energy Issues
In anticipation of Election Day on November 6th, RMI staffers were asked their thoughts on the top energy issues facing the country today. Employees responded to two questions:
(Video) eLab: Accelerating Innovation at the Distribution Edge
When we look forward to a transformed electricity system, the most important changes are happening now at the point of use in buildings and in communities.
