United Nations Development Programme

One of the most impressive gains for building energy efficiency came on November 1, 2010 when building officials from across the United States agreed to support advancements in building energy codes framed by the Final Action Hearings for the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code.

While Barack Obama tries to nudge the Chinese government toward greater eco-awareness and improved energy policies, the move to alternative energy is already happening at the local level in some parts of China.

Someone told me recently that the most important equation in understanding energy is E=MC2.

That’s because if we could learn to extract the total amount of energy contained in any particular mass – and in a way more efficient than burning it - we could get energy from anything.