Everyone knows that burning jet fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and further warming the Earth. But did you know that contrails act to make the situation even worse? And that some of our top scientific …
Mitigating Aircraft Contributions to Climate Change Read More »
Here’s RMI’s cofounder Amory Lovins shaking hands with Jimmy Carter. It may come as a surprise that there was a time before environmentalism became a partisan issue. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the Nixon administration. Nowadays, notions like …
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Turns 40 Years Old Read More »
The Rocky Mountain Institute, now called RMI, was founded in 1982, dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting its co-founder, chairman and chief scientist Amory Lovins at multiple conferences. …
Climate Advisors To Implement Adaptation Measure on Eight Pacific Islands Read More »
The Rocky Mountain Institute was featured on last Sunday’s edition of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which featured a discussion of how RMI will work with the government of The Bahamas to implement microgrids to improve resilience in this and other island …
Rocky Mountain Institute and the Government of The Bahamas Read More »
Jeff Merkley, a progressive senator from Oregon (a progressive state) is introducing legislation that provides a plan by which the country can wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050. Though the details of the plan aren’t available, they include the …
We’re Saying Goodbye To Fossil Fuels, But Not As Soon As We’d Like Read More »
The solar PV growth curves illustrate the rapid expansion in the deployment of this form for distributed generation (DG). The only conclusion one can draw from looking at these graphs is that, after decades of customers’ putting their toes in …
Glenn Doty notes with sadness: What would be nice is if someone actually tried to nail down a rough estimate for the global net economic benefit, and the national net economic benefit, for different paced CO2 reduction strategies. The fact …
Will Environmentalists Engage in a Cost/Benefit Dialog? Read More »
I hope Amory Lovins doesn’t think I’m stalking him. He certainly could get that impression, as I’ve approached him twice in the past three days — Wednesday after his incredible talk at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and …
