Rocky Mountain Institute

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI ) is an American organization for research, consulting, and public relations in the field of sustainable development. The focus is on profitable innovations for resource conservation and energy conservation. The headquarters of the RMI is in Snowmass, Colorado, but there are additional offices in Boulder ( Colorado).

History

RMI was founded in 1982 in Colorado by the experimental physicist Amory Lovins and his then wife, the lawyer, forester, and social scientist Hunter Lovins. Together with a group of colleagues to support a sustainable use of resources and a corresponding policy. The project eventually grew into an organization with about 50 employees. Mid-1980s were the founders in major television shows such as 60 Minutes.

The southern complex of buildings of the headquarters in Snowmass is built as a passive building, so that even at the local winter temperatures of -40 ° C by the sun alone and the body heat of employees in the interior still has a pleasant temperature and can subtropical and tropical plants grow.

From 1991 to 1999, the RMI was working on a super-efficient car, the Hypercar. The concept consists of a lightweight car with hybrid drive and especially low air resistance. To make the car more marketable, but it should, in contrast to other similar vehicles give no performance comfort and safety losses against ordinary cars. In order to promote development through direct competition, the project in 1999 was cleaved from the RMI and continued commercial.

Awards

The RMI co-founder Amory Lovins was, inter alia, with nine honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz Award, the Lindbergh Award and the Right Livelihood Award.

Motto of the RMI

" The Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization fosters the efficient and restorative did use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life -sustaining. We do this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions did create true wealth. "

" The RMI is an entrepreneurially -minded non-profit organization that promotes the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world safer, fairer, flowering and livable. We do this because we inspire the economy, civil society and the government to develop integrative solutions that create true wealth. "

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