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They're wide-eyed students interested in entrepreneurship, but they're eschewing incubators and sidestepping venture funding. What gives? Elizabeth Weber has been paving her own path to entrepreneurship for years

The outraged mayor of Vilnius is sick of cars parking in his bike lanes. So sick of them, he's now crushing them personally. The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, was sick of cars parking in no parking zones and bike lanes

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession.

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession. Yang gave up a law career almost immediately after he started, realizing the mega-firm life was "a less than ideal use of a lot of smart people's time." He founded Stargiving.com, a celebrity affiliated philanthropic fundraising site in 2000, right at the end of the dot.com bubble

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined with the Sierra Club on Thursday in a $50 million, four-year plan to campaign for replacing one-third of aging U.S. coal-fired power plants with clean energy. "If we are going to get serious about reducing our carbon footprint in the United States, we have to get serious about coal," Bloomberg, founder of the news service that bears his name, said in a statement.

The mayor of Santa Cruz is also co-founder of a coworking startup, which he created to bring individual jobs to his city after major companies turned him down. It's no surprise that the mayor of Santa Cruz, California--just a short ride over the mountains to Silicon Valley--is also a budding entrepreneur.

I’m going through the steps of starting up FamiliesGo!, a travel planning website for families, and I would like to file the business with New York State as a limited liability company. I have the papers on my desk.

I’m going through the steps of starting up FamiliesGo!, a travel planning website for families, and I would like to file the business with New York State as a limited liability company. I have the papers on my desk.

Using a system of sensors and cameras, the new program lets city engineers control traffic signals in real time in response to changing road conditions. Sitting in traffic isn't just unpleasant; it also wastes gasoline and is a major trigger for heart attacks, among other health problems. And of all the places to get stuck in traffic, Midtown Manhattan may be one of the worst.

New media consultant Alex Torpey utilized social media to win the Mayoral Race in his New Jersey town. When Barack Obama was running for office in his memorable 2008 campaign, one of the many ways he captivated America was through social networking. He recognized that an online movement could influence offline behavior in politics

Check-ins on Foursquare answer one central question: Where are you right now? But they provide little explanation of what you're doing there

For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S.

Those thin gray streaks in the image are the high-altitude plumes of ash spreading across the Pacific Ocean from the erupting Chilean volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, as imaged by NASA. The ash continues to disrupt flights in parts of the region, with Australia and New Zealand (on the left of the image) particularly affected

Reinvention, innovation, and cultivation make Houston our City of the Year for 2011. IT'S PAST 11 P.M., AND I'M walking with my husband in downtown Houston. We've just seen a play at the Alley Theatre, and the stroll to our car, which I'd left at my office, gives us time to dissect the show and enjoy the city at night

A fleet should be ready by the London Olympics in 2012. Zero-emission cabs are officially on their way to London.