It encourages efficient and restorative use of resources, aiming to transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. And also pushes for the global energy transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables by partnering with businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to advance market-based solutions. They do so by decarbonizing “energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis”, working “with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030.”
Guiding Principles:
- Advanced resource productivity by using natural resources more efficiently
- Whole-systems design-based, elegantly frugal solutions with multiple benefits
- Positive action – “We don’t lobby, litigate, or harass those with whom we disagree”
- Working with markets, not against them
- End-use, least-cost approach
- Biological insight into nature’s extraordinary design solutions
- Corporate transformation an essential part of the solution
- Pursuit of interconnection – The importance of a “vision across boundaries”
Work areas:
Publications:
- Reports
- Expert Commentary
- Policy Briefs
- Articles
- Fossil Fuels: Our Approach
- Peaking: Oil’s End
- Stories
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- Reinventing Fire (2014, 352p.) – A book by Amory Lovins built on 30 years of research and work that maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050, needing no oil, no coal, and no nuclear energy.
- The Impact of Fossil Fuels in Buildings (2019) – Facts that “direct building emissions, showing where they come from and how they fit into the overall emissions picture in the US.”
- Solutions Journal – A regular publication that “documented RMI’s growing impact, focusing on the people, programs, and innovations driving the clean energy revolution.”
Events:
- An online calendar of past and upcoming events
