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Earth, Inc. author Greg Unruh says businesses can learn from the environment to reap better profits, boost sustainability and decrease their carbon footprint. Here's how.

1 | July 8, 2010 10:07am | By Andrew Nusca

If clean technology is going to be a success, the rules for how to do business in the sector must be clearer, experts say.

3 | July 7, 2010 7:47am | By Andrew Nusca

Want to make money in the cleantech business? One expert says to look past North America, Europe and Asia to emerging markets in India, the Middle East and Africa.

1 | July 7, 2010 6:50am | By Andrew Nusca

A Chicago city official sees technology as one way to meet the city's "audacious" goal to reduce its carbon footprint 80 percent by 2050.

3 | July 7, 2010 5:26am | By Heather Clancy

VantagePoint CEO Alan Salzman says the Tesla electric car is a lot like the Apple II computer -- original, expensive and a few years before it will change the world.

5 | July 6, 2010 7:00am | By Andrew Nusca

Philadelphia set a goal to make the city the "greenest" in the country by 2015. We discuss the city's progress with its new sustainability director.

4 | July 6, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Make health a pleasure and it won't be a chore.

8 | July 3, 2010 12:23pm | By Dana Blankenhorn

Our obesity epidemic is not a demand problem. It's a supply problem.

23 | July 1, 2010 7:25am | By Dana Blankenhorn

A new blood test by Tethys Bioscience can help doctors determine the risk patients have of developing Type 2 diabetes within five years.

June 29, 2010 6:23pm | By Andrew Nusca

Saying giving antibiotics to animals is a threat to human health, the DA is issuing the first "draft guidance" against what is essentially standard industry practice.

2 | June 29, 2010 10:25am | By Dana Blankenhorn

It would not be hard to get Happy Meals inside the Santa Clara law. Make low fat milk the standard drink, cut back a bit on salting the fries, and you're done.

32 | June 28, 2010 7:45am | By Dana Blankenhorn

It's an underground cave as big as 20 football fields -- but no foreigners are allowed.

2 | June 28, 2010 12:22am | By Deborah Gage

When you think nuclear reactor, you think huge, professional labs, millions of dollars, and government oversight. But some amateur scientists are building their own.

2 | June 24, 2010 1:12pm | By Dan Nosowitz

In 2009, revenue related to company's ecoimagination technologies grew 6 percent to $18B

June 24, 2010 4:28am | By Heather Clancy

On a Silicon Valley tour, he answered tough questions from both Russians and Americans.

3 | June 23, 2010 6:29pm | By Deborah Gage

A new study from The Commonwealth Fund said the U.S. ranks last among seven national health care systems it has studied, as it has for some years now.

20 | June 23, 2010 11:55am | By Dana Blankenhorn

Will charging all our electric cars overload the grid? What is Best Buy doing building charging stations? And why do we need to keep an eye on EV progress in China?

11 | June 23, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Building a high-speed rail network requires more than money -- there needs to be an industry ready to manufacture the necessary infrastructure, and political will on the part of participating...

8 | June 21, 2010 8:43pm | By Joe McKendrick

The federal government charges two fees for solar power plants on public land: rent and output. But those fees discourage greater efficiency.

12 | June 18, 2010 2:54pm | By Dan Nosowitz

Ex-Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, now leading LED light bulb manufacturer Bridgelux, says he's hell-bent on putting GE, Philips and Osram Sylvania out of business.

8 | June 18, 2010 6:24am | By Andrew Nusca