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The 10 Best Stocks Of The Year

Posted 12.31.2011

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2011 may have been the year of baroque chain-restaurant creations like Denny's Maple Bacon Sundae and Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse Burger. But in ...

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The Worst Performing Stocks Of The Year

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.30.2011

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What can we learn by looking at the year's 10 worst performers among the S&P 500? That it's not an opportune moment for alternative energy. Some finan...

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Buffett's Utility Company To Buy California Solar Plant

Reuters | Posted 02.06.2012

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* First move into solar for Buffett's MidAmerican * 550-MW plant can power 160,000 average California homes * First Sola...

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First Solar Shares Suffer After CEO Steps Down

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 12.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The CEO of the nation's largest solar company is out, First Solar announced Tuesday, sending its shares tumbling more than 25 percent...

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US, Chinese Companies Partner In Massive Solar Plant

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — A U.S. company said Wednesday it wants to start construction this year in China of one of the world's biggest solar power plants after for...

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PHOTOS: The World's Most Important Alternative Energy Companies

Posted 05.25.2011

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By 24/7 Wall Street: Alternative energy is big business -- and getting bigger. The industry includes hundreds of companies that make a piece of the co...

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Innovations that Change the World

Jenny Darroch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jenny Darroch

I often feel that when an innovation is successful, I can't imagine life without it. I feel like that about many of the products and services from companies that made Fast Company's World's 50 Most Innovative Companies list.

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Grid Parity: When Solar Costs The Same As Coal (Now!)

EcoGeek | Posted 05.25.2011

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The holy grail of all renewable is to reach grid parity -- the point at which buying green power is no more expensive (or even cheaper) than buying po...

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Venture Capitalists Invest in Green

New York Times Magazine | Jon Gertner | Posted 05.25.2011

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One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had b...

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Economic Stimulus Package: No Stimulus for Green Energy

Miranda Marquit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Incentives, Economic Stimulus Package, Tax Rebates, Etfs, Solar Companies, First Solar, Green Energy, Tax Breaks, Business News
Miranda Marquit

The economic stimulus in question focuses a great deal on a short-term fix, rather than a long-term fundamental change. It's reactionary when it should be visionary.

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