Car sharing has taken the world by storm. Wildly successful companies like Zip Car and peer-to-peer services like Whip Car have made it difficult for the competition, fine-turning their models until there's little left to be desired.

I grew up playing the piano. When kids in my neighborhood compared notes about their favorite artist, I was the nerd who listed a classical composer. Today, I'm eternally grateful to my parents for exposing me to all different kinds of music, since it helps me distinguish between true brilliance and the nonsense many confuse for music today. Something tells me that if more people were exposed to Beethoven at an early age, they wouldn't be so quick to call Bieber a genius...but I digress.

Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space. These workers can be startup CEOs, telecommuters, small business owners, and especially creatives in search of collaboration.

In China, rapid industrialization has created a toxic environment in urban areas. Emissions from new factories and coal-fired power plants mix into a literal and figurative dark cloud over the country's capital, Beijing. 

Although the government would prefer to avoid criticism by keeping this issue under wraps, there is a grass roots effort underway to inform the public about air pollution levels and enlist citizens' help in crafting a solution.