Rocky Mountain Institute - Reason for Hope

Back in 1983, I recorded a speech by Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, when it was broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. Then, I spent several hours transcribing the whole thing and then probably maniacally told everyone I met about it for the next several months or years.  I just found that paper a few weeks ago when I was cleaning out a storage area in the basement. The whole speech was about how the next big energy discovery would be efficiency and conservation. It was a great speech by a great visionary who is still preaching conservation and efficiency. - cathy

Ken wrote that:

The Rocky Mountain Institute is a place where they think Very Big. It is extremely exciting to read this Annual report.This is worth reading just to feel good and optimistic about what is happening despite the roadblocks by Conservatives.

I like to tell people that if you look back at the last five years the pace of climate change due to global warming is proceeding faster that the experts predicted in almost every realm. The good thing is that the pace of government and private sector reaction to dealing with climate change is also proceeding faster that most people ever thought would happen.

http://www.rmi.org/Content/Files/RMI_AnnualReport_2014-2015.pdf