
Kathleen Tighe has been appointed by President Obama to be the New Chair of the Recovery Board, the independent agency that oversees the $840 billion economic stimulus program.
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By Cara Scharf — President Obama’s first several months in office have been, in a word, ambitious. But he hasn’t lost sight of one primary issue: increasing America’s renewable energy capacity. Nowhere is Obama’s commitment to this goal more apparent than in the recently signed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which focuses heavily on [...]

How to invest in an evolving economy?
As businesses — many of whom have record levels of cash on hand — look for new opportunities, readers and experts chime in on where to put corporate investments.

Companies, readers and analysts had a lot to say about what happened in 2011 and what it means for 2012. Read the best of the reader’s responses, along with interviews with Panasonic, Mohr Davidow, Jones Lang LaSalle, Duke Energy, Acorn Energy, and Advantage for Analysts.

For a wide range of businesses, the green economy continues to be stalled behind a lack of vision and a supporting plan. In this issue we look at a long term plan, two businesses creating new markets, and a mass movement that has lost its way.