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Amsterdam is giving away parking and electricity to electric car owners, part of a broad plan to cut emissions from automobiles and canal boats.

9 | May 9, 2011 9:26am | By Mark Halper

Alcoa's new green building panel can self-clean by breaking down smog-causing pollutants in cities to be washed away by rain.

12 | May 9, 2011 7:44am | By Andrew Nusca

When hackers revealed a bug in Apple's iPhone software that "tracked" users' locations, the company was roundly chastised. But what about carriers? How much do they know about their customers?

13 | May 6, 2011 2:14pm | By John Herrman

The "Live Near Your Work" program in Washington, D.C. will award up to $12,000 to residents if they move closer to public transit or their workplace. Would you take the money?

25 | May 6, 2011 8:09am | By Andrew Nusca

Can the world feed 10 billion people? As economists and demographers come to terms with a rapidly growing population, so must the agriculture industry -- and the policy that regulates it.

25 | May 6, 2011 7:39am | By Andrew Nusca

Map reveals where not to live if you want to stay out of the way of nature's wrath.

26 | May 6, 2011 12:00am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

Iceland, a country of 318,000 people, generates all its electricity from renewables. It could be on the verge of helping giant India map out a geothermal future.

1 | May 5, 2011 11:43am | By Mark Halper

SunReports CEO Tom Dinkel says solar energy installations lack true connectivity with the smart grid. We talk to him about monitoring and the threat of silent failure in solar.

4 | May 5, 2011 8:24am | By Andrew Nusca

Company gives out grants of $10,000 each to 40 different universities.

May 5, 2011 4:03am | By Heather Clancy

Fiber Optic researchers who have been experimenting with new and faster data technology report record-breaking results.

May 4, 2011 11:49pm | By Tuan C. Nguyen

Intel's new three-dimensional Tri-Gate transistors sustain Moore's Law and promise smarter cars, hospitals, wind turbines, spacecraft, phones and oh yeah -- computers.

6 | May 4, 2011 10:56am | By Andrew Nusca

UPS? FedEx? No. The kingmakers of logistics work in the shadows to make globalization -- and sustainability -- possible. Starting with the barcode. Meet GS1.

May 4, 2011 10:22am | By Andrew Nusca

A new survey finds that U.S. mayors want more bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

5 | May 4, 2011 10:10am | By Tyler Falk

For the first time in almost two decades, the United States has become a net exporter of fuel.

38 | May 3, 2011 9:49am | By Andrew Nusca

Car sharing company Zipcar will partner with Equity Residential to expand its presence in apartment buildings in New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and Seattle.

1 | May 3, 2011 9:02am | By Andrew Nusca

More than 60 cities large and small hope to save up to 45 percent on lighting costs through smarter streetlights.

1 | May 3, 2011 8:49am | By Heather Clancy

A green-building certification process more rigorous than LEED requires that buildings collect their own energy and water. But can it work in the city?

2 | May 2, 2011 10:05am | By Tyler Falk

International lighting designers gathered in trendy Milan, where they were incandescent over the banning of traditional bulbs

21 | May 2, 2011 9:54am | By Mark Halper

U.S. venture capital investment in cleantech companies topped $1.14 billion in the first quarter of 2011, a 54 percent increase from the same time a year ago. Leading the way: solar.

May 2, 2011 8:08am | By Andrew Nusca

OTG CEO Rick Blatstein is converting airport holding areas from what he says looks like root canal waiting rooms to places where passengers are treated like kings and queens.

2 | May 2, 2011 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan