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Dutch Postcode Lottery Awards RMI Nearly $1.2 Million
The Dutch Postcode Lottery has awarded Rocky Mountain Institute a gift of approximately €900,000, or $1,192,493.
Texas Grocer Slashes Energy Use
Which commercial building sector uses more energy per square foot than all but one other and is more than twice as energy-intensive as office buildings and schools? Grocery stores, second only to food service.
How Military SPIDERS Project Aids Grid Cyber-Security
In 2007, directors at the Idaho National Laboratory had their researchers play the role of computer hackers for an afternoon. Using the Internet to access an on-site electrical generator’s computer code, the “hackers” were able to reprogram the machine to destroy itself, demonstrating a key vulnerability of the U.S. electricity system.
Oil Companies’ Skepticism on EVs: A Costly Gamble?
So word is that two oil giants are among the skeptics about widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Oil executives might do well to ponder Kodak’s fate in an age when technological advances can wipe out even the most profitable, entrenched business within a generation.
My Response to WSJ’s “The Problem With Going Green”
David Owen continues to blame energy efficiency for the ills he ascribes to growth and wealth. His misunderstandings of “rebound” in energy use were devastatingly rebutted when he published them in The New Yorker, and now he’s expanded them to book length. But his post here…
