MUNICH, -- Siemens estimates that it will receive $21 billion in new orders as a result of stimulus programs from countries around the world, and expects about 40 percent of those orders to come from wind turbines, building efficiency systems and other green technology.

The theme park company's enterprise-wide green initiative, announced the same week as it filed for Chapter 11 protection, brings large-scale recycling, LED lights and vegetable oil-powered vehicles -- and hopefully cost savings -- to all Six Flags theme parks.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- New kinetic road plates have been installed at the supermarket giant's new store in Gloucester, U.K. It will harness enough energy from vehicles driving in and out of the store's parking lot to power all check outs.

Most utilities today are rightly concerned about how they're going to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to comply with new energy and climate legislation, while still reliably meeting growing demands for electricity.

Automakers are increasingly looking to achieve efficiency gains by developing plug-in electric vehicles. But despite significant support from the Obama administration, electric vehicles are unlikely to grow beyond a minuscule portion of the country's fleets unless city and regional leaders get on board as well.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- "Green collar jobs" has been the buzz term in business and policy circles as the solution to rising unemployment and greenhouse gas emissions. Two new reports show that the U.S. and states such as California can improve economic growth by employing clean energy strategies. And one of the reports says "business as usual" could make California's economy worse in the long run.

Although the U.S. Congress's new climate change bill may yet result in the kind of emissions cuts we need to stem the tide of severe global warming, its lack of market-based policies could hinder what would otherwise be much-needed progress and innovation.

Twenty years after Field of Dreams brought one of cinema's most famous lines to the American consciousness, political and business leaders from the Hawkeye state and beyond are quoting a new variation. Wind farms: If you build them, jobs will come.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $256 million in Recovery Act funds to support projects to curb consumption in energy intensive manufacturing and IT industries.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Solar Electric Power Association named PG&E the most solar integrated utility in 2008. Cumulatively, Southern California Edison took the top spot.

In an exclusive interview with the billionaire oil-turned-wind power magnate, T. Boone Pickens offers up the six steps to success for any green project.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Waste Management already generates renewable energy by incinerating trash and converting methane from its miles of landfills. Now the company is wading into a new venture that can turn garbage into synthetic gas for heating, ethanol or electricity.

David Sokol, the chairman of MidAmerican Energy (majority controlled by Berkshire Hathaway), is about to start testing a utility-scale battery storage plan that could change the renewables game forever.