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Here's one way to explain sticker shock in the organic produce aisle. Consumer demand for organic products has grown at a double-digit rate every year for more than a decade, according to the United States Department of Agriculture

Brenda Palms Barber, Chicago's Queen of Second Chances, is dedicated to finding jobs for former prison inmates. But when the nonprofit she runs couldn't overcome employers' resistance to bringing on ex-offenders, she spun out a business so she could hire them herself.

SightLife, a Seattle-based nonprofit eye bank that extracts corneas from organ donors and distributes them to transplant centers around the world, is one of the largest such facilities in the U.S., with 96 employees and more than $14 million in annual revenue. It supplies nearly 5,000 corneas for transplant a year. But it wasn't always that way

With the current obsession with label-reading and organic ingredients, surely there must be dozens of organic baby food brands, right? That's what Los Angeles moms (and friends) Liane Weintraub and Shannan Swanson thought.

Harvard Innovation Center's new director, Gordon Jones, wants to broaden the definition of entrepreneurialism to include not just tech startups, but all fields: lawyers, business people, Kennedy School bureaucrats-in-training, computer scientists, and so on. Today, Harvard announced that it had chosen Gordon Jones to head up its forthcoming Harvard Innovation Center.

You may have thought about blogging but then asked yourself, "What would I write about?" "Who would read it?" Or, "Is this the best use of my time?" If you're a business owner who already wears a hundred hats, the latter may be what keeps you from starting.

Intel tech is powering the Thunderbolt computer connector that may revolutionize how we hook up gear--but Intel is already working on its successor , due in 2015. It's five times faster still, and uses lasers. The Thunderbolt system is a development of Light Peak--a system of serial data transmission that Intel has been working on for quite some while.

The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body.

The casual games space is heating up--and two major acquisitions this week point the way forward. Zynga is poised to go global on a greater scale. This week it announced it had acquired Wonderland Software, a British studio behind a popular mobile game called GodFinger

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Groupon Dumps Trump Groupon pulls ads from Donald Trump's Apprentice website, saying it had gotten calls from customers upset about Trump's ongoing political circus .

A few days ago , I met Ben, a first-time founder who's been working on his business idea for 10 months. I asked him to give me the two minute overview of his business idea (or the "elevator pitch" in investor speak)

This chart, from Trendistic , shows just how wild Twitter is going over the Royal Wedding--and that's just for the word "wedding" -- "Will" and "Kate" are even more dramatic. 1