Green jobs

A large solar power array built by SolFocus at a community college in California not only supplies electricity for the school, it also serves as a teaching and job-training tool.

Jobs in the clean technology industry are growing twice as fast as the national average. So that's where the jobs are. Walletpop spoke with Ron Pernick, co-founder of West Coast-based Clean Edge and the author of The Clean Tech Revolution, to find out what these jobs are, how to land one, and, most...

To get to the future of Detroit, you have to park at the guard shack outside a dusty bus depot next to the freeway in San Jose Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. On the road in on a recent weekday, I pass buildings bearing the logos of technology titans such as Applied Materials (AMAT), Juniper...

In the back and forth over wind energy, one thing is clear. As Congress tries to come to grips with what to do about renewable energy, other countries have surged ahead with great focus. The effect has been powerful for the economies of China, India, Brazil, and much of Europe, where the contours...

President Obama promised that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) would have a verdant hue, and the stimulus package indeed came wrapped in green. The money for eco-friendly programs is spread among a number of government agencies, and provide a variety of ways to use this funding to...