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Greg Franta, An Appreciation
By Amory B. Lovins
Greg Franta, FAIA, was “revered nationally and internationally as an architect and green building consultant, with special expertise in solar design and daylighting of buildings,” wrote Nadav Malin on www.buildinggreen.com. But he was more than that. Many felt, as I did, that he was the very best—the world’s leading integrative architect of superefficient, beautiful, and delightful buildings.
Letter from the CEO: Working Toward a Three-fer
By Michael Potts, RMI President and CEO
Smart Garage
By Cameron Burns
10xE: Rethinking Engineering, Both Pedagogy and Practice
By Cameron Burns
Closing the Efficiency Gap (CEG): America's Untapped Opportunity
By Kelly Sweitzer
An enormous efficiency opportunity exists right under our noses. Electricity, the most versatile kind of energy, is used in limitless applications, ranging from transportation to heating, communications to lighting.
RMI Retrofits America's Favorite Skyscraper: The Empire State Building, a New Model for Energy Efficiency
By Molly Miller
When you gaze out over the vast canyons of Manhattan from the 86th floor observatory deck of the Empire State Building (ESB), you are looking at one of the greenest cities in the United States.
RMI Staff Profile: Lena Hansen
By Ben Holland
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
By Cameron Burns
"New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story
By Amory B. Lovins
The dominant type of new nuclear power plant, light-water reactors (LWRs), proved unfinanceable in the robust 2005–08 capital market, despite new U.S. subsidies approaching or exceeding their total construction cost.
The Dirt on Sustainability: Auden Schendler Talks about the Problems
By Cameron Burns
