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David Burns is an environmental chemist with expertise in laboratory data audits, green chemistry, and industrial ecology. David is available to help business & professionals integrate sustainable supply chains and energy efficiency into service offerings. The following blog topics are intended to invoke awareness and/ or action in Going-Green. You are also invited to create a Free Whoisgreen business profile using the link above. David Burns is a NSC member of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent not for profit organisation of industry experts, thought leaders, and engineers focused on excelerating the transition from coal & oil to energy efficiency & renewables. RMI offers business and government with strategic whole-system solutions that deliver lower CAPEX & OPEX (operating expenses), including supporting data. RMI is supported by a national solutions council membership.
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The following RMI case studies describe projects completed, or in planning satges.
The Empire State building has been approved for a US$38M energy efficiency retrofit to commence early 2010.
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Heavy duty, long-haul trucks offer tremendous potential for efficiency gains.
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RMI is helping communities prepare for the arrival of 1,000,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PIEV) which can be charged at home in the smart garage concept, or at public charging stations.
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To meet carbon emission targets and to satisfy rising energy demand, governments must consider the merits of the smart grid concept to distribute electricity.
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Energy efficiency is the answer that connects climate change skeptics and proponents.
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Influence design solutions to achieve radical energy and resource efficiencies which often cost less to build. An RMI case study book is currently being finalised for publication, expected for release third quarter 2010.
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RMI's Guiding Principles form the backdrop for natural capitalism, a new form of doing business and one that properly values its natural origins.
The Four Principles of Natural Capitalism
- Radical resource productivity: Using natural resources far more efficiently is both profitable and better for the environment.
- Biomimicry: Using nature as mentor, model, and measure yields superior design solutions that pro?tably eliminate waste, loss, and harm. Nature offers extraordinary design solutions honed by 3.8 billion years of rigorous testing; whatever didn’t work was recalled by the Manufacturer.
- Service and ?ow economy: Providing appropriate services in place of direct product consumption—decreasing costs, hassles, and material waste. The concept entails a new perception of value, a shift from the acquisition of goods as a measure of affluence to an economy where the continuous receipt of quality, utility, and performance promotes well-being.
- Reinvestment in natural capital: Sustaining, restoring, and expanding stocks of natural capital will help reverse world-wide planetary destruction, so that the biosphere can produce more abundant ecosystem services and natural resources.
RMI are assisting the US Federal Government to implement a series of policy goals.
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