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Human beings are born [because of] theaccumulation of qì [“chi” or “vital force”].When it accumulates there is life. When itdissipates there is death...There is one qì that connects and pervadeseverything in the world.Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) (ca. 4th Century BCE)True mastery can be gainedby letting things go their own way.It can’t be gained by interfering.Laozi (Lao Tzu) (6th Century BCE),Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) 48
RMI Annual Report 2009 – 2010RMI’s Reinventing Fire Initiatives: What and WhyIn July 2010 RMI celebrated the results of its year-long strategy development by choosing its firstfive initiatives. Two initiatives have a multi-sector focus. One is, of course, the capstone ReinventingFire effort to develop, roll out, and aggressively market a 40-year plan to migrate the United Statesoff fossil fuels smoothly, securely, and profitably—so business is motivated to do the heavy lifting.Another is our old friend 10xE (Factor Ten Engineering, p. 26), reborn with a twin focus on bothacademic and practitioner environments to provide methodologies and processes for our majorindustrial projects and work in all other sectors.Two additional initiatives center on building owners and service industries. RetroFit (p. 13) focuseson how and when to deeply retrofit existing commercial buildings, while our Superefficient HousingInitiative (p. 16) will accelerate superefficiency (more than 60 percent better than today’s averagenew build) into housing built at scale, including affordable housing and modular housing. Thefinal initiative, Next Generation Utility (NGU, p. 19), will speed change in the electricity sectorby working with industry leaders seeking low- or no-carbon operation and increased security,reliability, and resilience.Each initiative will run for three years or more and is approved, guided, and monitored by RMI’snew senior leadership steering group, the PREP (p. 9). Each is designed around a detailed theoryof change—what needs to happen, who needs to take action, how, and in what order—withcheckpoints, feedback, and continuous learning. Each initiative also requires extensive resources,typically costing from one to several million dollars per year. Most initiatives will involve all RMI’scapabilities—research, collaborative work, design, convening, writing and speaking, communicationsand outreach, fundraising, leadership, and management. We expect each initiative to have asignificant impact, but there are no easy wins here; each initiative is a considerable challenge. But atRMI we don’t run away from big problems—we run toward them.RMI Initiatives:• Reinventing Fire• RetroFit• Next Generation Utility• Superefficient Housing• Factor Ten EngineeringBesides these five initiatives, we continue to work on three more modest but still important andfamiliar projects. Project Get Ready (PGR, p. 25), an RMI-funded effort to improve and acceleratethe adoption of electric cars and their supporting infrastructure, will continue, and we are exploringpartnerships with organizations that can contribute insights and expand PGR’s impact. The NorthAmerican Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE, p. 22), which we helped incubate, already hasnearly 300 members. And RMI recently executed our solar “Balance of System” project (p. 17), whichincluded a successful industry charrette on redesigning everything except the module in order toreduce cost in large-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants—the processes, system-level concepts, and in somecases even the physical design and materials. In addition, RMI continues several long-term effortsimportant to our mission, such as military energy efficiency (p. 27) and micropower analysis (p. 21).11
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