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553: 255:. In 1982, Amory and Hunter founded Rocky Mountain Institute, based in Colorado. Together with a group of colleagues, the Lovinses fostered efficient resource use and policy development that they believed would promote global security. RMI ultimately grew into an organization with a staff of around fifty. By the mid-1980s, the Lovinses were featured on major network TV programs, such as 38: 314:, an organization with similar goals but a different approach. In June 2017, RMI merged with WattTime, an organization providing real-time power plant data to consumer devices for automatic dispatchable power consumption. RMI, in 2021, launched Canary Media, a nonprofit newsroom covering the clean energy transition. 280:, greatly complicated by electricity wastage and loss. The "soft energy path" which they wholly preferred involves efficient use of energy, diversity of energy production methods (and matched in scale and quality to end uses), and special reliance on "soft technologies" (alternative technology) such as 296:. According to the institute, large-scale electricity production facilities had an important place, but it was a place that they were already filling in the middle 1970s; in general, more would not be needed. In a 1989 speech, Amory Lovins introduced the related concept of 190:. The Rocky Mountain Institute was established in 1982 and has grown into a broad-based institution with over 600 staff and an annual budget of $ 120+ million. RMI's work is independent and non-adversarial, with an emphasis on market-based solutions. 1211: 1030: 697: 300:, in which creating a market for trading increased efficiency could supply additional electrical energy to consumers without increasing generation capacity—such as building more power plants. 840: 1329: 1038: 264:
The Lovins described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient liquid-fuel automotive transport, as well as giant centralized electricity-generating facilities, often burning
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had published many books, consulted widely, and was active in energy affairs in some fifteen countries as a synthesist and lobbyist. Lovins is the leading proponent of the
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In recent years, RMI has convened a team of designers and engineers to develop a super-efficient prototype automobile, which they have dubbed the
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Bright Automotive sought with its Bright IDEA project to develop a brand new, 100 miles per US gallon (2.4 L/100 km; 120 mpg
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launched from RMI with the goal of building on the work of a consortium of organizations, including
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technology services. Bright Automotive secured a conversion contract with the
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dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the field of
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Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security
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Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
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Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
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Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
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Renewable energy organizations based in the United States
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Climate change organizations based in the United States
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Lovins on the Soft Path: An Energy Future with a Future
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Small is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of
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Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security
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Rocky Mountain Institute

FYE June 2021
Basalt, Colorado
United States
39°18′30″N 106°58′56″W / 39.30833°N 106.98222°W / 39.30833; -106.98222
rmi.org
think tank
United States
Amory Lovins
sustainability
energy and resource efficiency
Carbon War Room
Basalt, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Amory Lovins
soft energy path
L. Hunter Sheldon
sociology
political
Pitzer College
J.D.
Loyola Marymount
School of Law
60 Minutes
fossil fuels
coal
petroleum
fission reaction
solar

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