Rocky Mountain Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization working to foster the efficient and restorative use of resources. For over 25 years, RMI's staff has helped everyone from business to government protect natural and human capital and create wealth.
RMI's cofounder, chairman and chief scientist Amory Lovins has been published in 29 books and hundreds of papers. His work has been recognized by the "Alternative Nobel." He has been awarded the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, and named one of Time Magazine's "Heroes for the Planet."
Recent Blog Entries
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Making sense of carbon offsets
By Luisa Lombera and Noah Buhayar for Environmental Lovins
The ins and outs of contracting to reduce emissions. Read full post »
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Vegas' green building boom
By Allison Rutter for Environmental Lovins
New hotels in Sin City aim for efficiency alongside extravagance. Read full post »
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Have a happy holiday (without all the trash)
By Noah Buhayar for Environmental Lovins
When consumers and corporations cut back on retail packaging, everybody profits. Read full post »
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Pulsing and gliding your way to better fuel economy
By Jeff Ronning for Environmental Lovins
Pulse-and-glide driving can get 15 percent better gas mileage, even in a big SUV. It's all about engine efficiency. Read full post »
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How your future car could help add power back to the grid
By Bryan Palmintier for Environmental Lovins
V2G technology -- plugging battery-powered cars back into the grid when parked -- is an exciting idea for everybody involved. Read full post »
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Heating your home efficiently
By Noah Buhayar for Environmental Lovins
Saving energy, and money, while heating your home is accomplished in two ways. Read full post »
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Getting savvy about standby power
By Noah Buhayar, Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute for Environmental Lovins
"Vampire" loads for common appliances gradually suck power. Slay them with these simple steps. Read full post »
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Wal-Mart's push for sustainability
By Lionel Bony for Environmental Lovins
The retailer changes its slogan to "Save Money. Live Better" -- and puts some policies in place to back it up. Read full post »
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Two approaches to green transportation
By Laura Schewel for Environmental Lovins
Radically reducing transportation's impact on the environment won't happen without addressing how many miles we, and the products we consume, travel. Read full post »
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'Green Games' under scrutiny
By Cameron M. Burns and Noah Buhayar for Environmental Lovins
Organizers are determined to make the 2012 Olympic Games one of the greenest events in history. Do they go far enough? Read full post »
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Will labeling carbon footprints work?
By Cameron M. Burns for Environmental Lovins
Imagine wandering the supermarket aisles and choosing your breakfast cereal based upon how much carbon dioxide was emitted. Would that change your decision? Read full post »
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What’s In Store For Next-Generation Hybrids
By John Waters for Environmental Lovins
Recent decades have seen almost symbiotic advances in the capabilities of portable consumer electronic devices and the batteries that power them. As laptop computers, PDAs, mp3 players and other electronic devices have entered the market, their ener Read full post »
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What About Chinese Energy?
By Amory Lovins for Environmental Lovins
Western cynics often claim that China won’t cut its carbon-intensive coal- and oil-burning, but will stubbornly insist on repeating the same inefficient old technologies that the West once used.How implausible. How unimaginative. How patronizing. .. Read full post »
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Lightweighting: Putting Our Cars on a Diet
By Michael Brylawski for Environmental Lovins
This week’s post is from Michael Brylawski who heads MOVE – The Transportation Innovation Group at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Dieting is no less than an American obsession. As much as we like to eat, we’re constantly inundated wi Read full post »
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Profitably Getting Off Coal: Micropower
By Amory Lovins for Environmental Lovins
Previously I summarized how modern efficiency techniques can wring four times more work from each kilowatt-hour of electricity, at far lower cost and often with better service quality. But we can also produce electricity in new ways that don’t harm Read full post »
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A Tale of Three Houses
By Amory Lovins for Environmental Lovins
Most people think that saving energy and CO2 at home will cost more—a lot more. But designing the house as an integrated system can make dramatic energy savings cost less.Heating a Cold Weather HomeMy wife and I live 7,100 feet up in the Rockies, wh Read full post »
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Four Myths About Hybrid Cars
By Amory Lovins for Environmental Lovins
More than a million hybrid-electric cars are on the road. Using gasoline engines to turn their wheels through an artful mix of mechanical and electric power, hybrids are such an unexpected market success that they’ve attracted criticism, some perhap Read full post »
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Profitably Kicking the Oil Habit
By Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) for Environmental Lovins
Two-fifths of the CO2 emissions that threaten our way of life come from burning oil. Yet by the 2040s, the U.S. could eliminate oil use at one-fourth its current cost. Here's the gist of my team's Read full post »
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Profitably Getting Off Coal: Negawatts
By Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) for Environmental Lovins
Two-fifths of the CO2 that's slowly crisping our planet comes from power stations, mostly burning coal. Must we wait decades to build a costly new fleet of coal-fired plants that grab and store the CO2 Read full post »
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Saving the Climate for Fun and Profit
By Amory Lovins for Environmental Lovins
Enough about the climate problem. Let’s talk climate solutions.We’re toast if we don’t stop messing up the climate. But pundits and politicians keep telling us that saving the climate will cost us dearly—in dollars, lifestyles, eve Read full post »
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