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The company has been focused on home automation and security since its founding in 1999, but is expanding its reach into the alternative energy market, funding 2,400 solar installations across...
A new report from and organic farming group finds that organic agriculture is growing eight times faster than conventional farming, and creates more than twice as many jobs -- but more...
A new report explores the emergence of the sustainability role in corporate America’s C-suites.
The president last night laid out a balanced and pragmatic program to boost the economy through creating green jobs. But -- even if it is approved by Congress -- is it going to be enough?
In saying that we don't need to sacrifice our safeguards to create more jobs, and in calling for a race to the top rather than the bottom, the president tonight laid out a comprehensive, pragmatic...
From bring corporate tax dollars back to the U.S. to shoring up our crumbling infrastructure, ideas like Connecticut's Green Bank are starting to gain traction in Washington -- and not a moment...
The coalition of labor and environmental groups relies heavily on public subsidies and tax credits meant to leverage private investment in the clean energy economy.
The State Department makes a trans-continental oil pipeline closer to reality, genetically modified crops lose their effects on bugs, and old car batteries get put to use in smart grids in today's...
The electric vehicle manufacturing capacity springing up across the United States are serving as a multipler for creating new jobs -- but public perception hasn't caught up to reality. Here's how...
In recent weeks, we've seen commentators lamenting the death of environmental activism in the US, as well as Michael Bloomberg's $50 million investment in Sierra Club's anti-coal campaign. Which...
Los Angeles leads the nation on green jobs creation; Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal released list of Top 25 Environmental Firms, Auto industry enjoys green jobs growth, and more.
If the carbon bubble is allowed to keep growing -- and threatens to burst -- investors and the planet will both lose.
Where are all the green jobs? A new new report from the Brookings Institution and Battelle finds that there are 2.7 million in the U.S., and they're all around you.
A new study finds that the president's plan to make existing buildings more energy efficient could also create more than 100,000 green jobs at the same time.
The organization that changed the microlending game has recently moved beyond its core mission of small loans to low-income entrepreneurs and is now taking on the world of green microloans.
The market for electric cars is so distorted by government subsidies that it's all but impossible to determine the true cost of an electric car.
Universities across the U.S. are reporting increased demand for sustainability practitioners on higher education campuses despite the down economy and high unemployment.
Over the past two weeks, the Obama Administration has unveiled policy proposals affecting green real estate that have left me cheering in one case and gravely concerned in another.
Global participants in the second annual Carbon Salary Survey from recruiting company Acre Resources and consulting firm Acona had an average annual salary was $79,000, about $3,000 higher than...
Most venture capital investors don't have a focus, but Physic Ventures is different. The San Francisco-based venture firm, with backing from corporate giants Unilever, PepsiCo and Humana, invests...
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