Amory Lovins
Learning Extreme Energy Efficiency at Rocky Mountain Institute
For me, the best spring break is not on a beach; it’s in the mountains. High up in the Roaring Fork Valley in Western Colorado, amid the snowcapped peaks, there’s a river that babbles past the small towns and their quirky residents. There’s not a lot out there. It feels…
Shifting the Auto Industry into Reverse
America’s auto industry was doing great. In 2016, its sales rose for the seventh year running to record highs. In 2017, sales slipped 1.2 percent but remained among the top five in history, dominated by more-profitable pickups and SUVs. But now a salvo of assaults from the White House “so…
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…
35 Years of Bold Steps in the Clean Energy Race: Part 3
As RMI celebrates our 35th anniversary as a nonprofit organization, we are in a very exciting, but also very critical, time in our race to a clean energy future. We recently held a web discussion, 35 Bold Ideas to Win the Clean Energy Race, with RMI CEO Jules Kortenhorst and…
35 Years of Bold Steps in the Clean Energy Race: Part 2
As RMI celebrates our 35th anniversary as a nonprofit organization, we are in a very exciting, but also very critical, time in our race to a clean energy future. We recently held a web discussion, 35 Bold Ideas to Win the Clean Energy Race, with RMI CEO Jules Kortenhorst and…