Thursday, August 29, 2019
Cities are at the forefront of helping to make sure that homes are more efficient and comfortable. They can do this by enacting policies that serve the unique needs of their constituents and drive progress on climate goals while potentially creating jobs and saving residents money on utility bills.
ON THE ROAD TO CLEAN, EQUITABLE MOBILITY
The leading transportation electrification projects have a clear beginning and end, but the route in between can be a maze of forks in the road that can easily lead project teams into high congestion. An early pit stop at RMI’s Mobility Innovation Lab can redraw the roadmap and put project teams back in the fast lane.
BRINGING CLEAN ELECTRICITY TO RURAL MALAWI
In honor of International Youth Day, we interviewed some of our inspirational young staff. In this video, Kester Wade, an associate in RMI’s Empowering Clean Economies program, explains how he provides planning assistance to the Malawi government to help them bring affordable and sustainable electricity to the majority of the country.
WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SO SCARED OF CLIMATE CHANGE?
Many recent superhero and sci-fi movies have invoked the climate crisis, imagining post-apocalyptic futures where ecological collapse is inevitable. In this New York Times article, RMI’s Jacob Corvidae references the Producers Guild’s Green Production Guide and explains that, “We need depictions that things could be OK because people worked at it.”
UNLOCKING LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY FOR A CLIMATE-RESILIENT CALIFORNIA GRID
Wildfires and other climate-related disasters are exposing both the vulnerability of California’s electric grid and the opportunity to use clean energy as a critical resilience strategy. This article in Greentech Media explains four immediate policy changes that would strengthen California’s disaster-prone grid.