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Whole-Building Retrofits: A Gateway to Climate Stabilization
This paper discusses creative elements of deep whole-building retrofits. It discusses process and technique, how to select suitable buildings, the key players that must be…
Achieving Radically Energy Efficient Retrofits: The Empire State Building Example
In order to avoid reaching unsustainable levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, we must reduce GHG emissions by 75% by 2050. “Deep” commercial building…
Renewables, Micropower, and the Transforming Electricity Landscape
This article, published in RMI’s Spring 2010 Solutions Journal, describes micropower’s acceleration in taking over the global market long dominated by central thermal stations. This…
Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation
Protecting the climate is not costly but profitable (even if avoided climate change is worth zero), mainly because saving fuel costs less than buying fuel.
Reply to William Tucker’s Critique of Amory Lovins’s Article “Nuclear Socialism”
On 26 October 2010, The American Spectator published William Tucker’s critical article about Amory Lovins’s “Nuclear Socialism” article in The Weekly Standard. The American Spectator…