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Leading the way towards carbon-neutral campuses

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

RMI Accelerates Campus Climate Initiatives  By Molly Miller, BET WriterYale University's Kroon Hall is on target to receive a LEED Platinum rating"Can you name a college that was not founded to exist into perpetuity?" David Shi, President of Furman University, asks the room rhetorically. "Sustainabi...

Greening the Empire State Building

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT

RMI helps the world’s most famous office building reduce its energy use by nearly 40 percent. The Empire State Building has released a breakthrough process to retrofit existing structures for environmental sustainability and announced plans to undergo a $13.2 million dollar project to reduce i...

RMI to Attend CU's Elevate 2009

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT

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RMI Takes the Next Step in Campus Sustainability: From Green Buildings to Living Communities

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT

RMI’s whole-system approach has the potential to transform the idea of campus greening from single projects to integrative communities. This leap could provide a model for the next generation of leaders. College campuses have long been hotbeds of social change. The Civil Rights Movement,...

RMI Attends Clinton Global Initiative Meeting

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Amory Lovins and Greg Franta participated in the fourth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York recently. The CGI convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges including: improved education for nearl...

Pursuing Climate Change Breakthroughs on Campus

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

A team of energy researchers will begin visiting a diverse group of 12 U.S. colleges and universities this week to collaborate on a search for campus-wide breakthroughs that could help slow global warming. Twelve schools, from Colorado State University to a community college in Bel Air, Md. h...

Franta: Move away from designing "as usual"

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Using today’s technologies, design teams need to discover how to integrate and optimize building performance within available budgets rather than designing “as usual” and incrementally making the building more efficient, Greg Franta, RMI Senior VP and Principal Architect, told the inaugural Annua...

NSC tour shows off museum

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Molly Miller NSC members Geri and Donald McLauchlan (left) with RMI's Greg Franta and Denver Museum of Nature and Science's Dave Noel (far right) Standing under the complete skeleton of a fin whale suspended form the ceiling of Denver’s Museum of Nature and Science, museum facility manager E...

Partnerships Key in Promoting Greener Building

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Finding the balance between mandating efficiency and green buildings versus incentives, education and awareness is key in fostering greener construction, RMI Senior Vice President and Principal Architect Greg Franta says. Speaking at the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA) c...

The Revival of Passive Design

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Architects once designed solely within the constraints of the environment. They examined each new building site, ensuring, among other things, a new construction would have optimal orientation to the sun. The amount of daylight able to reach the center of a room determi...

Building Sustainable Cities, Block by Block

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Katie Crane For all the fanfare, green buildings are often just “islands of sustainability”—excellent case studies in what’s possible, but ultimately unconnected to their surroundings. RMI’s Built Environment Team is partnering with an innovative California non-profit to change tha...

Tools for Sustainable Design

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Each year, the U.S. building sector creates more than 50 percent of the country’s CO2 emissions. To address this issue effectively, designers need to assess the sustainability of their ideas from the earliest planning phases, when most of a building’s environmental impact is decided.Rocky Mountain I...

A New Standard for Green Homes

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Over the last few years, the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program has garnered a lot of attention in the media. What you may not know is that there are actually nine LEED programs. The original program, LEED for New C...

Building Green the 'New Black'

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Once regarded as being too expensive to construct, a study has found sustainable "green"-rated buildings can actually deliver property developers and investors a higher financial return than more traditional non-green alternatives. Energy Star and LEED-certified buildings outperform their conv...

RMI at Solar 2008

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

The renewable energy industry is growing -- and growing fast. But there are still significant challenges to scaling up solar, wind, biofuels and other energy sources to meet our future demand. That’s the take-home message from the Solar 2008 conference in San Diego, CA, an annual conclave of sc...

Green Leases for Multi-Tenant Buildings

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

The green building movement has blossomed in recent years as governments, institutions and corporations finance the construction of high-performance facilities. However, in contrast to these owner-occupied buildings, multi-tenant office and retail spaces are yet to adopt many green design pract...

Daylighting Colorado's Seven Generations

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Maria Stamas Rocky Mountain Institute's work on the Seven Generations Office Park has helped the Fort Collins property become the first in North Colorado to receive the distinguished LEED platinum award. By incorporating a combination of high-performance window glazing, light shelves, h...

Buildings That Teach

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Noah Buhayar What can the built environment teach us about ourselves, about the environment in which we live? What cultural values can buildings impart? These were the questions posed by RMI's Built Environment Team principal Victor Olgyay and fellow Erik Bonnett at the Green Schools Sum...

RMI at the Green Summit

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Green Building for a Profitable Future

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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Going Green to Beat the Economic Blues

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Andrew Demaria A looming recession. Economic downturn. Credit crisis. All fearful catchphrases that are dominating the financial pages of newspapers and piling pressure on businesses to tighten purse strings. But the news isn't necessarily all doom and gloom. Companies can make th...

RMI’s Yahoo! Green blog

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

You Are How You Live

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Green Offices

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Rise of the Carbon-Neutral City

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

The Green House Effect

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Building That Goes Beyond Green

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

SBIC Announces Winners of Beyond Green Awards

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Laboratories 2030: Implications of the 2030 Challenge for the Research Building Sector

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Supersize the Automobile

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Ford Forms ‘Transformation Advisory Council’

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Feel the Lovins

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Amory Lovins: Solving the Energy Crisis (and Bringing Wal-Mart)

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Labor of Lovins

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT

PlumTV: Rocky Mountain Institute

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT

PlumTV: Michael Potts

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Global Warming: A Real Solution

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:00:00 GMT

4 Questions for Michael Potts, Rocky Mountain Institute

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Lighter Cars Can Help the U.S. Kick Oil

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:00:00 GMT

The New Yorker: Abstract

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Speech: Rocky Mountain Institute

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT

The Energizer

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:00:00 GMT

Amory Lovins' Leaner, Greener World

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:00:00 GMT

Coloradan Awarded Blue Planet Prize

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Cool Citizens: Everyday Solutions to Climate Change (PDF)

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Green Your Home for Winter: Where to Start

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT

The Grill: Rocky Mountain Institute's Amory B. Lovings on the Hot Seat

Mon, 21 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Energy-Efficiency Visionary

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Wal-Mart Hires Rocky Mountain Institute

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:00:00 GMT

Little Green Lies

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Rocky Mountain Institute Turns 25

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Video: RMI's Hypercar a 100+ mpg SUV featuring Amory Lovins

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT

World's Greenest Office Block Set for Paris

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

UMC Obtains LEED-EB Silver Ranking

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:00:00 GMT

Innovative Energy Solutions Create Community Commitment in Cambridge

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

By Nicole Argyropoulos “This timely and ambitious project provides an opportunity to apply highly innovative new approaches to energy efficiency in terms of advanced technology, integrated building design, novel business models, and creative policy mechanisms to capture the full potential for e...