During Mark D. Levine’s 35-year career at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), he led several groups and served as Director of the Energy (Environmental Energy Technologies) Division for ten years, 1996-2006. The Division, with a staff of more than 400, was a world leader in research on buildings energy efficiency, indoor air quality, electrochemical batteries, and energy efficiency analysis.1

His major passion for more than three decades was analyzing and promoting energy efficiency in China. He created the China Energy Group at LBNL in 1988, a vibrant on-going group with more than ten U.S. researchers, ten visiting researchers, and countless collaborators in China. He and the China Energy Group brought appliance standards to China in the early nineties2 and a member of the Group (Lynn Price) was instrumental in developing new and effective energy policies to reduce industrial energy use which China adopted.2