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Last night the president laid out the American Jobs Act, an initiative aimed at lowering unemployment. What does it mean for small business owners and entrepreneurs? In a persuasive speech before a joint session of Congress last night, president Barack Obama revealed his American Jobs Act, which he hopes will improve unemployment and get Americans working again.

Imagine this: There is a suspicion that you are in possession of stolen property (hypothetically, of course). Police want to come search your house, your car, and your office.

No geoengineering methods are ready for use to combat climate change, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released late last month, citing concerns about cost, effectiveness and adverse consequences. "Climate engineering technologies do not now offer a viable response to global climate change," GAO said in the report commissioned by former House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

Car sharing isn't new, but what if it was your car that was being shared? A new crop of peer-to-peer hourly car rental companies are popping up--can they gain traction

Want to encourage creativity amongst your team? We asked CEOs, creative writers, and a comedy instructor, their tips for drawing out good ideas.

Starting a business has its challenges.

With its banking and financial infrastructure still in tatters, a new mobile service that allows Haitians to make and receive payments via text message is taking off and allowing commerce to flourish. Last year, Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake that caused widespread devastation--a tragedy that puts yesterday's quake, which sent shockwaves of worry up and down the East Coast despite little damage, into stark perspective. The impoverished country is still recovering--but slowly, as several reports have indicated

If you have $60,000 to spare and like to show off to your neighbors, ClearEdge Power may have the product for you: a giant fuel cell that can power up your house, and perhaps take you entirely off the grid. Bloom Energy burst onto the clean energy scene last year with the Bloom Energy Server (you know it as the Bloom Box), a so-called fuel cell "power plant in a box" that can run on natural gas, hydrogen, or biogas. Bloom has cornered the big business fuel cell market, with installations at eBay's headquarters, multiple AT&T sites, Adobe's headquarters, and more

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg examines the limit on what your spouse should know about the companys problems. In the early years of Stonyfield Yogurt, my husband, Gary, and I acted like the three wise monkeys

Cleaning the dirty water from our drains and toilets is an expensive and energy-sucking task.

Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business

When we outsourced manufacturing to China and Japan and Taiwan, we may have lost something far more important than low-wage jobs.

Author Tina Rosenberg realized that while our common conception of peer pressure is negative, it can be used to drive people to improve their own behavior.

Instead of driving aimlessly looking for a spot, pay a few bucks to have someone give you theirs. It's happened to all of us: circling for what seems like hours trying to find a parking spot near our house or the restaurant you're going to.

Jamming carbon deep underground has long been a proposed solution to our emissions problems, but it's expensive and rarely used. Now we can use the Earth's heat to make that gas work for us. Geothermal power production and CO2 storage are both well-known practices in the energy world: one generates power from thermal energy that is generated and stored in the Earth, and the other is used to store CO2 from coal-fired power plants (or other dirty industrial plants) to prevent the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.