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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…
Carbon Neutrality Based on Native-Site Carbon Storage
A certain amount of emphasis has been placed on carbon-neutral design lately in the buildings industry. The emphasis has thus far been on building-operation emissions…