Rbouvier consulting

04/03/2024

Check out Connor's post on natural gas expansion in Maine: Environment Or Economy: A Story of Opportunity Cost http://www.rbouvierconsulting.com/environment-or-economy-a-story-of-opportunity-cost/

04/02/2024

April 2024 Newsletter 🌷 - https://mailchi.mp/79e5861ed833/rbouvierdec-eroi-6361519 Inside: Natural Gas In Maine, Rachel's Journal Round Up, a look at Recent RBC Projects and a New Tool Series on I/O Systems in Economic Analysis

12/14/2023

December 2023 Newsletter 🌲 - https://mailchi.mp/8b2055114184/rbouvierdec-eroi

10/29/2023

Resharing a post from out friends are Resilience Planning. Plenty of communities in Maine are feeling the wear and tear of amenity economies.
https://headwaterseconomics.org/outdoor-recreation/amenity-trap/?fbclid=IwAR2XrebflcJFNaVPEo7NNB2FldIdQ1tXvzfTxNReBgF7t76iUywKRHkJoHg

Amenity communities face unique challenges from waves of tourists and new residents. Proactive planning can help avoid being loved to death. Amenity communities face unique challenges from waves of tourists and new residents. Proactive planning can help avoid being loved to death.

09/19/2023

September Newsletter 🥕 - https://mailchi.mp/804f71ed60c0/rbouviersept-bikes

07/05/2023

When building energy infrastructure for the future it is interesting to think about designing these systems for about 1/3 of the energy we produce now. Why, you ask? Because of energy return on energy invested or EROEI which is different for all primary energy sources. We think it is also interesting to think about this on the demand-side of energy storage, especially pumped hydro. Check out this episode of Have a Think

Will batteries for hundreds of millions of future electric vehicles rob the planet of all its precious minerals? And what about all the minerals and material...

06/30/2023

We have been hearing a bit about this form of sustainable development in Maine. Efficency Maine has some stats on renewable building standards. Share here if you have know anything about that.

A Swedish firm has unveiled plans to build what could be the world’s biggest wooden city. Read more here: https://econ.st/44n8vtG

Image credit: Atrium Ljungberg/Henning Larsen

06/29/2023

We are working on a project that is looking to develop hyper-local data sets so that economic developers and planners can illuminate the data that is relevant to their communities as the environment changes. Therefore, we find it interesting that this story explains how The Maine Lobstermen's Association has been advocating for using local data to inform fishing regulations through litigation in the Right Whale.

The ruling vacates a biology-based decision – the government’s 10-year plan to reduce the risk posed by fishing gear to endangered North Atlantic right whales.

06/13/2023

June Newsletter 🌸 - https://mailchi.mp/919c58216a8c/rbouviermay-6236772

04/05/2023

Today Acadia Center released our latest report on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, commonly referred to as RGGI, and it has already drawn praise!

We are so incredibly grateful for the feedback we have reviewed from our partners, communities, and policy experts.

This report took an enormous amount of effort from our entire staff, and we are honored to have the support of so many people invested in addressing environmental justice, clean energy, and climate change.

We invite our community to read the report and and our blog, and keep an eye out for upcoming webinars on the topic!

03/28/2023

New Series on Tools starts here in RBC March Newsletter: When Data Sets are Confusing. - https://mailchi.mp/136627fcf751/rbouviermay-6225184 Plus, PFAS, Journal Round Up, and Sustainable Fashion ...See you at the Maine Water and Sustainability Conference

01/31/2023

🍩Regenerative Economics, The Blue Hill Study | Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/584c5cb9de80/rbouviermay-6222028