We are excited to share news of two major policy breakthroughs that show China’s commitment to environmental progress. Our friends at NRDC are proud to report that China’s central government have finally enacted utility demand side management regulations (DSM Implementation Measures). This requires the country’s power grid companies to use a portion of their revenues to develop large-scale energy efficiency programs for factories, businesses and homes. Coming into effect on J

Note: The following article was taken from China Daily. If you compare modern photographs of colleges in the English university city of Oxford, with those taken little more than 50 years ago, you will instantly notice a remarkable difference. Today the picturesque sandstone buildings are a near pristine golden yellow in color, but, before the passing of the Clean Air Act in the UK in 1956, they were more or less uniformly black. Years of choking fumes from open fireplaces in

On April 19, 2008, in partnership with JUCCCE, GE and Citibank helped initiate our Energy Efficient Lighting program. Dozens of volunteers joined us to replace incandescent light bulbs with our first batch of energy-efficient, compact fluorescent light bulbs. The bulbs were generously provided by GE. Incandescent light bulbs have been the sole source of light for many people at night for the past 100 years. Yet, because 90% of the energy they use is wasted as heat, they are c