Established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins, the Rocky Mountain Institute works mainly in the U.S. to help companies create solutions to a wide range of environmental challenges using market economics and resource-efficiency techniques.

It provides research and publishes reports in areas including:

• Climate change
• Corporate sustainability
• Economic renewal
• Energy efficiency
• Forestry
• Green development and real estate
• Transportation and hypercars
• Water conservation.

RMI also operates a for-profit energy consulting service called E-Source.