It looks like an IKEA showroom, but it's not.

It's the 2010 Beijing Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Exhibition, a multi-day event for companies to show off their latest environmentally-friendly products. It's also the most recent in a series of Green events scheduled to take place in China.

On the floor, the two biggest brands in town are Philips and Panasonic, but even local Chinese companies are making a showing. And all of them are jumping on the bandwagon that they see as the next big industry of the 21st century.

In this section, dedicated to light bulbs, the companies push for longer and longer lifetimes, as well as higher and higher prices.

Dr. Chu spoke at the 23rd Forum at Tsinghua, the university from where both of his parents had graduated. His appointment as Energy Secretary earlier this year was part of a marked shift in US energy policy. In his speech, Chu used several scientific examples to outline the potentially catastrophic effects that could lie ahead.

Ancius introduces the Chinese character for “energy”, and explains how it is used as a radical.

Now it’s become a cliché to say that China is developing fast. But it’s nevertheless true - and on many fronts that rapid development has meant overtaking the U.S. That’s often a source of some pride in China. But with today’s concerns about global warming, new claims that China now uses more energy than the U.S. have been less welcome. To get an idea of what the trends are in China’s use of energy, and importantly, where that energy comes from, BON’s Katie Fischer spoke with Wu Chanhgua, director of The Climate Group.