Topic: Green Business

One World Trade Center and the four other tallest buildings in America

The new One World Trade Center tower is taking over as New York City’s tallest from the Empire State Building. But it’s not the country’s tallest. Here are the five tallest buildings in the country.

Germany's solar woes dim the promise of green jobs

Global competition and cuts to government subsidies have plunged Germany's solar-energy industry into disarray. As another manufacturer goes bankrupt, green job growth is in jeopardy.

Top 5 nations that use renewable energy

Here are the top users of renewables, not counting biofuels or hydroelectricity.  Numbers indicate country percentage of total global renewable usage.

Climbing higher at German wind farm

A German wind farm offers a ropes course at the foot of a towering wind turbine, providing an alternative view of green energy.

Election 101: Where the GOP candidates stand on energy and the environment

Energy and the environment are typically “back burner” issues in national elections, but both are huge this year for Republicans. Take a look at where each of them stands.

Green energy: Silicon Valley leads a back-to-basics revolution

Green energy has long aimed to overthrow fossil fuel's stranglehold on world power generation. But for now, Silicon Valley is taking green energy down a different path.

Clean energy falls short so far

Clean energy companies have made money for some investors, but that doesn't mean they're successful businesses. Clean energy – or clean tech – will create winners eventually, but maybe not in the United States.

Renewable energy: Will new law help or hurt California economy?

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring California utilities to obtain 33 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.

Science helps the world, even if it's done in China

How globalization is good for science and encourages innovation

Green energy vs. the dirty status quo

Can green energy find its own market without the government's help?

Toxic toy recalls: an opening for US 'green' toys

Because of recalls of toxic toys in recent years, small US firms are pushing nontoxic, organic toys for Christmas.

California: The green guinea pig

California has a chance to show the world how to balance greenhouse gas reduction with economic prosperity – if they can get it to work.

Will China dominate the green economy? And if they do, should we worry?

China's recent investment in renewable energy technology prompts concerns that China will take over American control of 'the green economy'.

Five ways to cut China energy use

Despite the breakneck speed at which the country surpassed the United States as the world's biggest energy consumer, International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol says China energy use can be slowed.

A home made green and lean

Eco-aware rehabber finds that doing right by the earth is cost-effective, too.

The economic impact of California's AB32 law for fighting climate change

California's AB32 law will be a costly, but important first step in establishing a green economy.

Are corporate social responsibility rankings irresponsible?

Corporate social responsibility rankings can be a powerful tool for companies. But there are concerns about how they are compiled.

Report: China's push to be green tech leader violates WTO accord

China is protecting its green tech energy industries, says a new report by the National Foreign Trade Council. Moreover, Beijing is ordering big state-owned enterprises to favor Chinese manufacturers in their energy purchases, in violation of its WTO commitments, the report finds.

Bloom Energy press conference: Bloom box officially unveiled

With a list of luminaries that included former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Bloom Box was officially unveiled at the Bloom Energy press conference in San Jose, Calif. The question remains whether the company's new method of making fuel cells can deliver on all the hype.

Thomas Friedman thinks China is 'smarter' than the US. Is he right?

Obama to create 17,000 green jobs. What's a green job?

Despite the president's initiative, no one really knows how to count green jobs. A definitive answer is months away.

Onetime foes, companies and activists find ways to cooperate

Companies and activists are partnering on environmental, health, and other issues. Labor initiatives are more problematic.

Green building comes of age

Competition, oil prices, and concerns about global warming have caused the '70s fad to go mainstream. Is green building finally coming of age?

South Korea invests big in green industry – or does it?

Some 80 percent of its $38 billion economic stimulus package is for clean technology. But environmentalists say half the money is 'greenwash.'

China's great wall to foreign green tech

Protecting domestic firms from foreign competition in alternative energy only hurts efforts against global warming.