Amory Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, long known for being ahead of his time in energy issues and solutions, has an email newsletter available and wide-ranging information on the site.
The recent collaboration with the City of Cambridge to achieve energy saving goals are impressive.
Links available below are worth consideration:
City of Cambridge Pushes Energy Efficiency to New Level
RMI Helps the “City of Squares” Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions and Use Less Energy
By Natalie Mims
As the “going green” trend grows, local, state, and big-city governments are joining the movement that smart developers and forward-thinking corporations have been leading. Regional and city climate-change initiatives are mounting, and efforts to cut energy use and greenhouse-gas emissions have become as varied and individualistic as the communities themselves. Recently, RMI worked with one Massachusetts city on its energy and greenhouse-gas reductions efforts. RMI
Winning the Oil Endgame, Round 2
In spring 2004, when RMI was writing Winning the Oil Endgame a peer reviewed roadmap for getting the United States completely off oil by the 2040s—the government forecast that oil in 2025 would cost $26 a barrel. By the time we published the study in September 2004, the actual price was nearly $40. Today, with prices pushing through $110, the solutions to America’s oil addiction are worth almost three times as much—conservatively assuming, as WTOE did, that oil’s hidden costs to security, climate, etc. are worth zero. RMI
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