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Chile: A Potential Goldmine of Efficiency and Renewables
In Chile, Rocky Mountain Institute Chairman and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins sees a country with vast efficiency and renewable energy potential.
Transportation Conundrum: Cash-strapped cities worldwide face difficult decisions.
Around the globe, cities are trying a variety of measures to tackle transportation-related challenges. However, in tough economic times, dwindling budgets force tough choices about where to invest time and money.
Going Upstream: creative ways utilities are attracting customers
To make things easier for customers, some utilities have wisely begun to work upstream with manufacturers, vendors and retailers. Instead of offering the customer rebates, the utilities are providing incentives to product suppliers to ensure that store shelves are stocked only with ENERGY STAR appliances.
5 Key Solutions to Transform the Built Environment
America’s buildings are energy hogs. The country’s 120 million buildings consume 42 percent of our nation’s total energy and 72 percent of our electricity.
How should the U.S. recalibrate itself to take advantage of natural gas reserves?
How should the U.S. recalibrate itself to take advantage of natural gas reserves? Natural gas' future role could be very different than todays.