The International Energy Agency is out with its 2009 World Energy Outlook. Some of the revelations presented at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday were hardly startling: energy demand and investment down due to global recession, but demand expected to return and grow, China using more energy, etc. But a couple […]
Countries within the Southern Hemisphere are on the move. This past weekend member states of UNASUR and the African Union met on Margarita Island, Venezuela, in order to strengthen ties between their countries and continents. One of the ideas proposed by President Hugo Chávez, as well as Moammar Gadhafi, of Libya, is an alliance among […]
New York Mayor Bloomberg harnessed the green power of Earth Day to unveil a plan that would require NYC buildings – responsible for 80% of the city’s emissions – to undergo regular energy audits and retrofits, as needed, in order to become more energy efficient. The announcement was made just a couple weeks after Bloomberg […]