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Ancient carbon from Pleistocene era (10,000 years ago) animals, along with chunks of green grass growing in the ancient soil is being flushed into Arctic lakes and rivers as the long-frozen permafrost thaws, producing methane gas and possibly carbon dioxide which may be causing further global warming.

To study this climate change phenomena, Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno professor and researcher will be returning for his second year as one of the principle investigators with the Polaris Project, an international team of scientists and students studying climate change in the Siberian Arctic.

Joanne Heslop, an undergraduate at the University, was one of the few students across the country chosen in the highly competitive selection process to participate. It will be her first year in the month-long program. They leave July 2 for the research and field course.

The Polaris Project program is training future leaders in Arctic research and education, and informing the public about the impacts of climate change; essential goals given the rapid and profound transformations underway in the Arctic.

In addition to the field course, The Polaris Project includes research experience for undergraduate students in the Siberian Arctic, several new arctic-focused undergraduate courses taught by project co-primary investigators at their home institutions, the opportunity for those scientists to initiate research programs in the Siberian Arctic, and a wide range of outreach activities. All project participants, both students and faculty, will visit kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms in their home cities to convey the excitement of polar research.

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Most advice to entrepreneurs focuses on what they should do: build a great product, assemble a great team, provide great service. All are “duhisms.” Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don’t realize that there are things they should specifically avoid doing too. These are also “duhisms,” but somehow, no one ever talks about them. Click HERE for Guy Kawasaki’s list of the 12 most important things that entrepreneurs should not do.

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NCET would like to congratulate Ruth Hedges of Funding Roadmap for winning the iPod Nano.  Ruth entered to win at NCET’s booth at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo on June 24, 2009.  Thanks to all of you who stopped by.

NV Energy’s latest action plan for new power capacity will rely almost solely on eco-friendly measures, executives for the power utility said in a meeting Tuesday with Review-Journal editors and reporters.

When NV Energy files its three-year integrated resource plan with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission today, its proposal will feature $500 million for a green-energy transmission line, $325 million for efficiency and conservation and $100 million for solar-power arrays. But it won’t include any requests for funds to build projects that generate power from fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.It’s the first midrange agenda without carbon-fueled capital improvements since 2003, when NV Energy launched an aggressive initiative to buy and develop its own generating stations in Nevada. NV Energy spent $1.5 billion in recent years acquiring and building power stations so the company could avoid the whims of pricey wholesale markets. The strategy means the company will get 77 percent of its power through its own plants in 2009, up from 39 percent in 2005. Read full story:

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If want to grow your small business, it’s time to squeeze some oranges. No, I don’t mean you have to go out and start drinking orange juice. I mean you have to squeeze more out of the things you already do and have in your business now. You’ve got to make from what you already have.

You’ve spent money, time, energy and careful thought developing a number of key ingredients for your success, such as your existing: