Via Rick Nicholson, IDC Clean Energy Blog – Last November Living City Block, a non-profit organization that was spun out from the Rocky Mountain Institute, received a $600,000 ARRA technical assistance award from the U.S. DOE as part of the Commercial Buildings Partnership Program.  Living City Block is using the award to help achieve its goal of taking one and a half city blocks in Denver and transforming it into a sustainable community. Living City Block will perform modeling and implementation work to significantly reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact on these blocks.  By the summer of 2012, Living City Block Denver plans to reduce it’s aggregate energy use by 50%.  By the summer of 2014, it plans to reduce total resource use 75%, and by 2016 it plans to have helped at least two historic buildings reach a net zero energy profile. Read More