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Annual Report 2019–2020
annual report 2019–2020 Energy Solutions for the Decisive Decade M OUN KY T C A I O N R IN S T E Rocky Mountain Institute Annual Report 2019/2020TIT U1 04 Letter from Our CEO 08 Introducing RMI’s New Global Programs 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Contents. 2 Rocky Mountain Institute Annual Report 2019/2020 Cover image courtesy of Unsplash/Cassie Matias 14 54 Amory Lovins: Making the Board of Trustees Future a Reality 22 62 Think, Do, Scale Thank You, Donors! 50 104 Financials Our Locations Rocky Mountain Institute Annual Report 2019/2020 3 4 Rocky Mountain Institute Annual Report 2019/2020 Letter from Our CEO There is no doubt that humanity has been dealt a difficult hand in 2020. A global pandemic and resulting economic instability have sown tremendous uncertainty for now and for the future. Record- breaking natural disasters—hurricanes, floods, and wildfires—have devastated communities resulting in deep personal suffering. Meanwhile, we have entered the decisive decade for our Earth’s climate—with just ten years to halve global emissions to meet the goals set by the Paris Agreement before we cause irreparable damage to our planet and all life it supports. In spite of these immense challenges, when I reflect on this past year I am inspired by the resilience and hope we’ve experienced at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). This is evidenced through impact made possible by the enduring support of our donors and tenacious partnership of other NGOs, companies, cities, states, and countries working together to drive a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future. -
Air Commodore Sir Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Prestbury Cbe (R17-20)
AIR COMMODORE SIR ARTHUR VERE HARVEY, BARON PRESTBURY CBE (R17-20) He was born on 31 January 1906 in Suffolk. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1925 and qualified as a flying instructor. In 1930 he went to Hong Kong as a test pilot and representative of the Far East Aviation Co. He also founded the Far East Flying Training School. Two years later Gen Chang Kai Shek appointed him adviser to the South China Air Force, with the honorary rank of Major-General. He found himself in serious trouble when, flying an aircraft from Manchuria to Tientsin, he had to make a forced landing in Japan. That he was both white and associated with the Chinese did not commend him to the increasingly nationalistic Japanese authorities. He was held in a military prison for a month before being expelled with a fine of 500 yen (£25) and a lifetime ban on entering Japanese territory – a penalty that ended with that country’s defeat in 1945. He returned to England in 1937 to take part in the King’s Cup race, in which he came 4 th race with an average speed of 142.4 mph over the Miles-Whitney Straight. He then joined the Auxiliary Air Force with the rank of Squadron Leader and founded 615 County of Surrey Fighter Squadron. He took it to France in 1939 and won 2 mentions in dispatches. He then commanded a squadron in the Battle of Britain and was instrumental in persuading Winston Churchill to become its honorary Air Commodore. Some years later he revealed that in 1942 he had been responsible for planning the air side of a combined operations plan to seize a German occupied Alderney and hold it for three weeks. -
Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944
POLITICS AS USUAL: FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, THOMAS DEWEY, AND THE WARTIME PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1944 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. POLITICS AS USUAL: FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, THOMAS DEWEY AND THE WARTIME PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1944 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Michael A. Davis, B.A., M.A. University of Central Arkansas, 1993 University of Central Arkansas, 1994 December 2005 University of Arkansas Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the U.S. wartime presidential campaign of 1944. In 1944, the United States was at war with the Axis Powers of World War II, and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, already serving an unprecedented third term as President of the United States, was seeking a fourth. Roosevelt was a very able politician and-combined with his successful performance as wartime commander-in-chief-- waged an effective, and ultimately successful, reelection campaign. Republicans, meanwhile, rallied behind New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey emerged as leader of the GOP at a critical time. Since the coming of the Great Depression -for which Republicans were blamed-the party had suffered a series of political setbacks. Republicans were demoralized, and by the early 1940s, divided into two general national factions: Robert Taft conservatives and Wendell WiIlkie "liberals." Believing his party's chances of victory over the skilled and wily commander-in-chiefto be slim, Dewey nevertheless committed himself to wage a competent and centrist campaign, to hold the Republican Party together, and to transform it into a relevant alternative within the postwar New Deal political order. -
Brooklands Aerodrome & Motor
BROOKLANDS AERODROME & MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT TIMELINE OF HERITAGE ASSETS Brooklands Heritage Partnership CONSULTATION COPY (June 2017) Radley House Partnership BROOKLANDS AERODROME & MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT TIMELINE OF HERITAGE ASSETS CONTENTS Aerodrome Road 2 The 1907 BARC Clubhouse 8 Bellman Hangar 22 The Brooklands Memorial (1957) 33 Brooklands Motoring History 36 Byfleet Banking 41 The Campbell Road Circuit (1937) 46 Extreme Weather 50 The Finishing Straight 54 Fuel Facilities 65 Members’ Hill, Test Hill & Restaurant Buildings 69 Members’ Hill Grandstands 77 The Railway Straight Hangar 79 The Stratosphere Chamber & Supersonic Wind Tunnel 82 Vickers Aviation Ltd 86 Cover Photographs: Aerial photographs over Brooklands (16 July 2014) © reproduced courtesy of Ian Haskell Brooklands Heritage Partnership CONSULTATION COPY Radley House Partnership Timelines: June 2017 Page 1 of 93 ‘AERODROME ROAD’ AT BROOKLANDS, SURREY 1904: Britain’s first tarmacadam road constructed (location?) – recorded by TRL Ltd’s Library (ref. Francis, 2001/2). June 1907: Brooklands Motor Circuit completed for Hugh & Ethel Locke King and first opened; construction work included diverting the River Wey in two places. Although the secondary use of the site as an aerodrome was not yet anticipated, the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club soon encouraged flying there by offering a £2,500 prize for the first powered flight around the Circuit by the end of 1907! February 1908: Colonel Lindsay Lloyd (Brooklands’ new Clerk of the Course) elected a member of the Aero Club of Great Britain. 29/06/1908: First known air photos of Brooklands taken from a hot air balloon – no sign of any existing route along the future Aerodrome Road (A/R) and the River Wey still meandered across the road’s future path although a footbridge(?) carried a rough track to Hollicks Farm (ref. -
DEVON STRUT NEWS the Newsletter of the Devon Strut of the Popular Flying Association
DEVON STRUT NEWS The Newsletter of the Devon Strut of the Popular Flying Association. May 2006. CO-ORDINATOR’S COMMENTS by Christopher Howell The hot news this month is the lottery funding awarded to the South West Struts. Thanks to the dedication and application of our National Council representative, Jim Gale, £5,000 has been awarded to the South West Struts for education and promotions. This award means we can fund the Scout Camp, Young Aviators, Build a Plane visits and Fly a Teacher. The will also help our PR Officer, Steve Robson, with the funds needed to cover printing costs and projection equipment. Hopefully, we can then use our own up-to-date equipment at our winter Strut meetings as to date we have been blessed with Mike Mold’s kind help borrowing equipment from his office. The final Strut meeting was held in April with an interesting film shown by MG Car Club enthusiast Ted Lawrence. The film detailed the aviation history of Brooklands. I was amazed to hear how much aviation had taken place at Brooklands. (http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/aviation_history.cfm ) right up to recent times. There then followed a short film based on early Army Air Corp day’s, the principal role having been taken by an Aeronca. This was a truly delightful film portraying simple, unhindered flying in the 1930’s. News abounds from Europe! Following a meeting on March 16th at the offices of EASA in Cologne involving the Rule Making Group, a proposal has been put forward to introduce MDM.032 for firstly, a new PPL called a Recreational PPL and secondly a new aircraft category, similar to the US Light Sport Aircraft, with a proposed upper weight limit of 5700kg. -
{New Republic}: Straight KGB Disinformation
Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 13, Number 14, April 4, 1986 ganized by the student branch of the League for Industrial McGovern Commission "reforms" that in this 1986 election Democracy, a spawn of the Fabian Society/New Republic! gave 70% of their vote to Janice Hart, the LaRouche Demo Socialist Party in the early 1900s. The SDS "Days of Rage" cratic candidate for secretary of state. saw gangs of radical thugs, like Mussolini's squadristi and Stevenson played that same "inside-outside" game with Hitler's SA, smash cars and store windows and beat police the Vietnam war. First, individuals like his father's lifelong and delegates to the Democratic Convention. The difference allies George Ball and Averell Harriman, and the McGeorge between Italy and Germany of the 1920s, and America ofthe Bundy Eastern Establishment liberals had convinced Presi 1960s, was that the police upheld the law .. dent Kennedy to enter a war of extermination in Vietnam. Stevenson viciously denounced the police. In a statement, Then, when the Trust had arranged a U.S.-Moscow deal to dated Sept. 17, 1968 he demanded "reform" and "change" hand the country over to Moscow, Stevenson became a ve within the Deomcratic Party. He denounced the "feudal hement critic of the war. In 1971·he proclaimed, "The only structure" of the Illinois Democratic machine which, he said, thing we can do for these. people now is to get out. We gave "employed storm troopers in blue" against the SDS terrorists. them helicopters and military supplies. Whar they need is Stevenson then increased his drive to disenfranchise the leadership, and they can only get that if we leave them alone." Party base in favor of the radical counterculture. -
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst
Tlrr Dorolily Wililury Slmighl Elmilirsl Pn1'ers nl Comt'il Uuit,ersily The Dorothy Whitney Straight Ehnhirst Papers at Cornell University 1909-1925 Guide to a Microfilm Ed ition Ingeborg Wald, Editor Dep.ntme nt o f Manuscr ipts and Univer sity A rchives John M. Olin Li brary It hac a, New Yo rk 1981 Cover: Dorollry Wlril11ry 5/rniglrl, skelclwl /Jy Willard Slraiglrl, probably 1912. Frontis pi ece: Dorollr y W/ril11ey ns a child. Preface Since a guide to the microfilm edition to the Willard D. Straight Papers appeared in 1974 the papers of Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight and additional papers of Willard D. Straight have been donated to the Archives by the Straight family. The papers of Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight have been arranged and ca n be used as a separate collection in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. A computer-generated index to the papers of Willard and Dorothy Straight is available. Additional information concerning Mrs. Straig ht and her children can be found at Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Ha ll , England. I wish to thank the Whitney Foundation, which has suppo rted the work for this guide. I am grateful to Michael Straight, w ho has answered swiftly my innumerable questions and often suggested wider avenues of approach to the family papers. My thanks also go to Beatrice Straight Cookson for her help and kindness. I wish to thank my coll eagues, friends, and students who were helpful and unders tanding when I was working on this g uide and indexing project, particula rly Gould P. -
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adventures in the Holy Land, which he reached STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSfflP, MANAGE and entered on a boat manned by the group which MENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., required by the Acts of is actively engaged in smuggling Jews into Pales Congress of August 24, 1912, and March 3, 1933. of tine. It makes fascinating and instructive reading. FREE WORLD, published monthly at New York, N. Y. THE MASTERS AND THE SLAVES, A Study in State of New York >- ss. for October 1st, 1946. the Development of Brazilian Civilization, by Bil- County of New York berto Freyre. Translated by Samuel Putnam, Alfred Before me, a notary public in and for the State and A. Knopf, 600 pages, $7.50. A veritable mine of county aforesaid, personally appeared Samson Trop, facts about Brazil, written in a skillful and scholarly, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes as well as very readable style and translated in a and says that he is the Assistant to the Publisher of the masterly fashion. The book is absorbing, colorful FREE WORLD and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the owner and crammed full of facts and information. It is a ship, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for must for everyone interested in the South Ameri the date shown in the above caption, required by the can continent and Latin American life and afiairs. Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section 537, Postal Laws and THE UNITED NATIONS: A Handbook on the Regulations printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: New World Organization, by Louis Dolivet, with a 1. -
Juli Gatling Book | [email protected] Waiting and Burning Out
Waiting and Burning Out: War Memory, Psychological Resilience, and Interwar Disillusionment Abstract This article examines interwar peace activism by focusing on the personal emotional process that provokes disillusionment. This study documents how peace aspirations collapsed for two activists during the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference and again at the start of the Second World War. The former destroyed their faith that peace could be obtained through international mediation while the latter prompted a rejection of all interwar peace organizations. This article argues that while war memory often prompted involvement in interwar peace movements, trauma decreased psychological resilience—effectively leaving individuals prone to disillusionment when faced with the political machinery of conflict negotiation. Keywords World War, Memory, Disillusionment, Gender, Peace Activism, Disarmament Trauma decreases resilience and increases the desire to avoid conflict. This article studies this process by following the narrative of two interwar peace activists as they shared their memory of the First World War, their hopes for peace and their eventual rejection of interwar peace organizations at the start of the Second World War. What a society remembers and what it forgets is a telling indicator and for the interwar generation memories of the First World War loomed large.1 It was a trauma that ran deep. For many, this trauma led to an intense commitment to establishing and maintaining a lasting peace. Private memory, especially in the interwar period, is much more difficult to uncover compared to the popular, public memory of events. This case study provides a rare glimpse into the private memory of the First World War—especially that of women. -
Conspirators' Hierarchy: the Story of the Committee of 300
CONSPIRATORS' HIERARCHY: THE STORY OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300 Dr. John Coleman FOREWORD In my career as a professional intelligence officer, I had many occasions to access highly classified documents, but during service as a political science officer in the field in Angola, West Africa, I had the opportunity to view a series of top secret classified documents which were unusually explicit. What I saw filled me with anger and resentment and launched me on a course from which I have not deviated, namely to uncover what power it is that controls and manages the British and United States governments. I was thoroughly familiar with all of the well known secret societies such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderbergers, Trilaterals, the Zionists, Freemasonry, Bolshevism- Rosicrucianism and all of the spinoffs of these secret societies. As an intelligence officer, and even before that as a young student in the course of my studies at the British Museum in London, I had cut my eye teeth on all of them, plus a good number of others with whom I imagined Americans were familiar. But when I came to the United States in 1969, I found that names like the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Club of Rome the German Marshall Fund, the Cini Foundation, the Round Table, the Fabianists, the Venetian Black Nobility, the Mont Pelerin Society, Hellfire Clubs, and many others were at best totally unknown here, or else their true functions were at best but poorly understood, if at all. -
**A Note on Citations for the Information and Intrigue, America's
**A Note on Citations for the Information and Intrigue, America’s Information Wars and Related Works ** Because of number-of-pages limitations, we decided to limit the number and length of citations and endnotes in the texts and to employ as many space-saving formats as possible. If we used traditional approaches to citing and using notes, the texts would have been unbearably long. However, despite the citing parsimony we feel that readers will be more than adequately pointed to evidence and sources. Illustrative Bibliography, Information and Intrigue and Related Volumes, May, 2018 This bibliography contains some of the more important and more readily available secondary works used in the project. For the primary documents and their sources, see the texts. Copyright, Colin Burke, 2010 Abbott, Andrew, “Library Research Infrastructure for Humanistic and Social Scientific Scholarship in the Twentieth Century”, in, Charles Camic, et al. (eds.), Social Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 43-87. Abrams, Richard A., "A Paradox of progressivism: Massachusetts on the Eve of Insurgency," Political Science Quarterly, 75 3 (Sept., 1960: 379-399). Abrams, Richard M., Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics 1900-1912 (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1964). Abt, John, Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Lawyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993). Adams, Mark B., et al., “Human Heredity and Politics: a Comparative Study of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor…,” OSIRIS 2nd Series, 20 1 (n.d.): 232-62. Adams, Scott, “Information for Science and Technology,” (Urbana: University of Illinois GLIS 109, 1945). Adkinson, Burton W., Two Centuries of Federal Information (Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1978). -
Liberal Critics of the United States Policy Toward the Vichy Government 1940-1943
University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 1959 Liberal critics of the United States policy toward the Vichy government 1940-1943 Richard J. Champoux The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Champoux, Richard J., "Liberal critics of the United States policy toward the Vichy government 1940-1943" (1959). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 5187. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5187 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LIBERAL CRITICS OR THE UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD THE VICHY GOVERNMENT, 1940-194-3 by RICHARD JAMES CHAMPOUZ B.A. Montana State University, 1958 Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY 1959 Approved hy: Dean, Graduate School AUG 2 1 1959 Date UMI Number: EP40651 All rights reserved 'INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. K s»1at!® PubfefAifl UMI EP40651 Published by ProQuest LLC (2014).