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Amory Lovins’s Extreme Energy Efficiency: Stanford Students Learn the Future of Design
“Learning that only 0.5 percent of the fuel consumed by a vehicle is used to move the driver completely shifted the way I view transportation,” wrote Lance Yupingkun, one of 39 Stanford University students (pictured above) who attended a weeklong Rocky Mountain Institute class on integrative design and…
Rocket Ships and Corporate Commitments: The Newest Tools in the Fight Against Climate Change
Elon Musk isn’t the only person to have big plans for innovation in the final frontier of space. In fact, as climate change continues to threaten a two-degree warming limit for this planet, one organization is going extraterrestrial to try and lock down the most dangerous greenhouse gas emissions we…
The Policy Consensus for Faster, Cleaner Economic Growth
Originally posted at weforum.org here. Coordinated public-sector support once kick-started the technologies, business practices, and markets needed for a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon energy future. Over time, the increasing profitability of clean energy activity has come to drive exponential growth in global annual investment—amounting to more than $333 billion…
Davos: The Need for Renewables in Our Shared Future
This blog was originally posted on Virgin.com. You might believe, as many people do, that the World Economic Forum in Davos is out of touch with everyday people. To me, the only thing worse than the global elite getting together to solve the world’s problems is the global elite…
Unmoored from Facts, Will EIA Projections Become Reality?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) most recent Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) should give anyone watching today’s energy markets a jolt of surprise. Not for projecting that U.S. energy demand will grow by an average of 0.4 percent per year after two decades of evidence to the contrary. Not…
