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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Climate Leaders and Changemakers
RMI STATEMENT FOR PRIDE MONTH: We at RMI proudly stand with our LGBTQ+ staff, contractors, partners, and supporters in celebrating Pride Month. We believe this is an opportunity to acknowledge the LGBTQ+ community’s contributions to the energy transition and the fight against climate change. Pride Month is a time of…
Shareholders Keep Up the Pressure on Corporate Climate Action
This year marks the first annual general meeting (AGM) season since the flurry of investor commitments to climate action and stewardship in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. AGMs, which are yearly meetings of a company’s shareholders and its board of directors, provide an opportunity for…
A Clean Electricity Future is Affordable and Attainable—It’s Time to Act
For a decade or more, even as renewables have gained market share within the US power grid, accelerated progress toward a lower-carbon grid has been held up by two dominant–but outdated–narratives. First, utilities and others have long argued that renewables, in particular wind and solar, are costly compared to fossil…
RMI Launches New Climate Tech Accelerator
Faced with the rising urgency of the climate crisis, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and New Energy Nexus are proud to announce the launch of a new joint venture called Third Derivative (or D3, for short)—built to accelerate the rate of climate innovation. This program works with startups from around…
Getting Back on the Bus and Back to Work
The current pandemic has had an immediate and profound impact on public transit. Revenue is in free fall and ridership is at an all-time low. How will buses, trains, cars, and bikes play in our calculus as we return to work? Traffic data suggests an uptick in automobile traffic (even…
