Rocky Mountain Institute’s Michael Bendewald recently penned an article for TriplePundit.com about the $4 billion President Obama… committed to building retrofits.  In the article, Bendewald provides a number examples demonstrating how deep energy retrofits are bolstering the economy through job creation and inching closer to the tipping point for the mainstreaming

Retrofitting our existing building stock to achieve substantial energy savings is quickly becoming a major theme for city governments across the nation in an effort to cut energy consumption – and save taxpayers money.  In a recent GreenBiz article written by Rocky Mountain Institute’s… Michael Bendwald, the author looks at

If you are not familiar with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)… you should be. With a mission “to drive the efficient and restorative use of resources”, the non-profit develops strategies “to map and drive the transition from coal and oil to efficiency and renewables.” For up-to-date resources supporting high performance

The aim of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Built Environment Team (BET)  is to transform the built environment into a sustainable and regenerative global ecology.  With an emphasis on achieving energy efficiency through integrated design, the BET has contributed to numerous high-performance projects throughout the world.  Two of the projects they’ve worked…