Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Robert Hutchinson. Since 2009, RMI’s work to advance deep energy retrofits has focused on a multi-pronged approach to scaling: 1) collaborate with project teammates, owners, and other fast movers who learn from and copy pioneering deep retrofit projects, 2) engage entire portfolios and campuses of buildings … [continued]
An ambitious partnership between California’s College of the Desert (COD) and Palm Springs is set to launch America’s first self-sustaining college campus, following other U.S. colleges blazing a higher education sustainability trail. The West Valley Campus, a satellite location to COD’s 50-year old main campus, will be LEED Platinum … [continued]
Did you know that…. operational improvements and retrofitting can potentially offer an overall energy savings of nearly 50 percent? The commercial building sector is the largest electric energy consumption segment in the U.S. It currently represents almost 20 percent of all energy use and is growing faster than any … [continued]
Creating much needed building and construction industry jobs, reducing energy bills and use at low-income homes and buildings and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, all this has been achieved – and faster than scheduled – by the DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program, which has ‘weatherized’ 600,000 homes and buildings across the US and its territories three months ahead of schedule.
