The University of Alaska Fairbanks is using Sustainable Energy - without the hot air as a course text book for course ENVI 293, Introduction to sustainable energy.
On 1-Oct-2009, David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to DECC, the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change. He has been seconded from the University of Cambridge.
David MacKay is included in the New Statesman's "The 50 people who matter today", their "diverse list of individuals, couples and families changing the world, for good and ill. Including the Murdochs, Marwan Barghouti, Vladimir Putin".