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As of early April, the state-of-the-art T2 Terminal in San Francisco is the new home of American Airlines and Virgin America. In a $393 million renovation of the original 1954 terminal by Turner Construction and Gensler, architects recycled 90 percent of the original building content

A small company temporary lost its funding because of an unsavory tweet, plus four IPOs you should know about and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

Numbers show that people are giving up on non-toxic cleaning products. But they're really just giving up the ones that are doing it for show.

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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile gave the green light on Monday to the divisive $3.5 billion HidroAysen hydro-power dam project that promises to ease energy squeezes, despite objections that it will ruin pristine Patagonian valleys.

Its nickname is "Isla del Encanto," or "Island of Enchantment," and on the surface, Puerto Rico seems to fulfill every paradisiacal promise made about it by glossy travel magazines. The 111 x 36 mile island has a remarkable range of geological, biological, and habitat diversity, including a rain forest, a dry forest, mangroves, karst formations, three bioluminescent bays, and one of the largest underground cave systems in the world.

On top of the usual "spills in aisle five," grocery stores have another mess they're hoping to clean up: greenhouse gas leaks. U.S. EPA announced yesterday that its partnership to cut greenhouse gas emissions from grocery stores has reached 50 states.

In this excerpt from his new book, Fixing the Game author Roger L. Martin examines what the NFL can teach the business world about managing expectations and how CEOs are rigging the game. Few people conceive of the world of business in terms of real and expectations markets

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Sometimes it's OK to litter. After unwrapping soap from Pangea Organics, a Boulder, Colorado-based maker of skin care products, customers are supposed to plant the packages in the ground.

It's a speech we've heard time and time again: A corporate CEO or entrepreneur will take the stage and proclaim "Our greatest asset is not in our inventory or our sales or our products—but in our people." True, but times have changed. In order to fully realize—and leverage—an employee's full value, a successful company needs to find creative ways to tap into its employees' networks (both online and offline).

In the past two weeks, Google has made two staggeringly large renewable energy investments: a $168 million investment in the Ivanpah solar farm, and a $100 million investment in the world's largest wind farm . We had a chance to speak with the man behind these investments--Rick Needham, Google's Director of Green Business Operations and Strategy (pictured in stylish duds, center)--to find out why the search engine giant has seemingly all of a sudden become a major clean energy player. When Needham came to Google in 2008, the company had already made early-stage clean energy investments through Google.org (the company's philanthropic arm), but Needham spent most of his time figuring out how to make Google's own operations more energy efficient.

Chances are, you've at least heard of Kiva , the microfinancing nonprofit that allows users to give bite-sized loans to entrepreneurs in poverty-stricken regions. Because people like to feel good by offering cash to worthy causes (or so we've heard), Kiva has done exceptionally well, funding $200 million worth of microloans since its launch in 2004. And as of today, you can specifically fund what are, in our opinion, the smartest entrepreneurs--the ones who realize that efficiency is the key to becoming self-sufficient.

ZynGaga! What would a Zynga/Gaga collaboration look like? We have a few ideas. Lady Gaga and Zynga , the wildly successful online gaming company behind FarmVille, are in talks regarding a possible promotional deal, reports the Wall Street Journal

Most restaurants try to accommodate special requests : Omitting chopped peanuts on a sundae for the allergic, or swapping out blue cheese for cheddar if a diner would prefer a less pungent burger topping is not only good customer service, but expected. Which is why it was so appalling when a former Tavern on the Green chef boasted on his Facebook page that he purposely served high-gluten pasta to diners who requested a gluten-free entr