The green economy will get an $80 billion boost from President Barack Obama’s recovery package in the form of direct spending, loan guarantees, and tax incentives. A clean-energy economy offers not just savings in imported oil and reductions in carbon emissions necessary to save the planet but jobs and new industries — and not just […]
Special Report
Cities on the Front Lines
Conversion to solar and wind energy is an environmental necessity and an industrial opportunity. Success will require a concerted national policy.
Beyond Sunny Hopes and Windy Rhetoric
To realize the promise of solar and wind power, aspirations need to be matched with more effective strategies.
From Mass Transit to New Manufacturing
With the right policies in place, an expansion of public transportation could help reindustrialize the United States.
Fighting for Green Justice
In the race for green jobs, environmental-justice advocates don’t want urban communities to get left behind.
A Green Industrial Economy
The opportunity for good jobs is there — but unionization and government contracting standards will make a huge difference.
Housing New Orleans: Still a Work in Progress
Far too many people are still without decent affordable homes, and hidden vulnerable groups like the mentally ill have been hit hardest of all.
Justice Polluted
An environmental-justice attorney explains how the civil rights of Gulf Coast residents were violated.
Gulf Coast Notebook
Communities rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike.

