WELCOME TO THE RMI SOLUTIONS JOURNAL, the newly redesigned tri-annual publication from Rocky Mountain Institute.
The past year has been one of great growth and greater accomplishment for RMI. It has been marked by a number of high-profile client engagements, in-depth research projects, our 25th anniversary, and a renewed commitment to communicating our ideas and work to the rest of the world. But which of our stories do we choose to tell first?
RMI is so many different things. Research. Barrier Busting. Implementation. Big thinking. Radical solutions for attacking the world’s dire needs around energy efficiency and the restorative use of natural resources.
But more than any of those things RMI is its people and their ideas. Inside this issue of the Solutions Journal we will be introducing you to a number of those people and a host of their ideas. Some of these people work here at RMI; some of them once worked at RMI; some have been long and dedicated supporters. But they are all members of the RMI family, deeply dedicated to our mission, and we invite you to get to know them a little better.
Among the questions asked in this issue: How does a Midwestern state place itself at the forefront of the “green jobs” movement? How can we begin to change the way we think about sustainable cities, one block at a time? How can we make the electrical grid stable with up to 40 percent or more of our power coming from renewable sources like wind and solar?
And the most visionary of all is the question asked in our initial cover story: How does RMI help bring the building, transportation, and utility sectors together to help create the energy solutions of the future?
Also, we think that you will enjoy seeing a different side of our Chief Scientist and Chairman Amory B. Lovins, a man who spends his holiday trying to bring new awareness and support to a Borneo project dedicated to saving orangutans and their natural rainforest eco-system.
We hope you enjoy the read. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send them to us at SolutionsJournal@rmi.org.
Thanks again for your support.
Llewellyn Wells
VP of Communications and Media
