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Increase In Alternative Fuel Vehicles Doesn’t Mean That Drivers Are Using Less Gasoline

Because you can put gas in flex-fuel vehicles, and because you can't find ethanol anywhere, just putting clean cars on the roads hasn't meant cleaner emissions. Governments and corporations--big entities that have to move a lot of stuff and people around--buy a lot of cars and use a lot of gas. In 2009, these U.S.

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Building a Retro Nightlife Empire

How did a crew of former art and film students with no management or bar experience become dedicated owners of four iconic East Coast hangouts? As a kid , Paul Kermizian was younger than most everyone else at the local arcade

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Kang advances in Women’s Amateur

Defending champion Danielle Kang won two matches Thursday to advance to quarterfinals in the U.S. Women's Amateur at Rhode Island Country Club.

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Making the Most of an Incubator

Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator. Mark Wachen sits in the Manhattan outpost of DreamIt Ventures, the Philadelphia-based start-up incubator.

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Garbage in, Energy out: Turning Trash into Biofuel

Edmonton is Canada's chief oil city as well as the capital of Alberta, the province that hosts the bulk of the country's tar sands . Given the expense of converting this mix of dirt and heavy oils to more usable petroleum products, the province is not keen on alternative fuels.

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Determine Your Funding Needs

Break a business plan into bite-sized pieces to save time, and focus on what matters most for you right now. The last of a three-part series

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6 Reasons to Stay Small

Author John Warrillow proposes an alternative to setting your sights on building a $200 million business: Focus on building a $2 million company instead. The generally-accepted dogma among entrepreneurs is "bigger is beautiful." You're nothing until you have some brand name investors on your board and 50 employees at your command.

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IBM Partners With Portland To Play SimCity For Real

The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living?

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Israel to Build $423 Million Desalination Plant

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it was building a 1.5 billion shekel ($423 million) desalination plant, which upon completion in 2013, will join four other plants in providing the country with three-quarters of its drinking water.

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Israel to Build $423 Million Desalination Plant

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it was building a 1.5 billion shekel ($423 million) desalination plant, which upon completion in 2013, will join four other plants in providing the country with three-quarters of its drinking water.

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