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The U.S. Small Business Administration posted record-breaking loan numbers again in FY 2007, expanding access to capital to thousands of entrepreneurs across America. SBA set records for both the combined number and dollar volume of loans, and increased loans to small businesses in underserved areas by more than 5.5 percent.
A rural Northern Nevada hospital is going green, thanks to help from volunteers with the annual Burning Man event and Sierra Pacific Power Co.
Black Rock Solar, a nonprofit arm of Black Rock City, LLC that organizes the annual counterculture festival, is installing photovoltaic solar panels at Pershing General Hospital in Lovelock.
The panels will generate 60,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year and save the hospital thousands of dollars in energy costs.
Sierra Pacific Power also is providing a $150,000 rebate, which essentially covers the cost of installation.
The 2008 Nevada High School Business Plan Competition is open to all Nevada High School Students, with cash prizes and an awards ceremony 
OFFICIAL BUSINESS PLAN SUBMITTAL FORM
Please type or print all information clearly
1. Please provide the title and a brief description of your business plan.
2. Please provide the following information on your team’s ADVISOR.
Name of Advisor:
Name of School and Department:
Complete Mailing Address:
Phone:
Email:
Fax:
3. Please provide the following information for each team member:
Name:
Complete Mailing Address:
Phone:
Email:
Name:
Complete Mailing Address:
Phone:
Email:
Submit plans by March 25, 2008:
To: Melissa Scott
Nevada Department of Education
1820 East Sahara, Suite 205
Las Vegas, NV 89104
For more information call (702) 486-6625
Awards Ceremony to be held April 25, 2008 at Green Valley Ranch Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
Presented by Nevada Department of Education, Nevada Council on Economic Education and Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
Poker is a necessary annoyance for casino executives.
Televised tournaments and pop culture references have made poker a player favorite, but the games, in which players bet against one another, don’t make much money for the house.
A startup company from North Carolina is trying to change that with electronic poker tables called PokerPros that don’t require live dealers. These tables, which debuted in 2005 but aren’t yet offered in Nevada, have big implications for the casino industry. Read more:
Picture the new wave in conservation: a tree-hugging, socks-and-Birkenstocks, environmentally friendly … SUV?
A $60,000, eight-cylinder, 12 mile-per-gallon Land Rover as the car for the environmentally conscious might seem like an oxymoron. But it is just the latest seeming contradiction in a world where gun-toting conservationists, evangelical environmentalists and carbon-neutral corporations are increasingly the norm.
Land Rover Las Vegas says it achieves that balance of luxury and responsibility by purchasing carbon offsets – which aim to mitigate the effects of carbon emissions by planting CO2-absorbing trees – for every new and used SU it sells.
It’s a controversial way to have your Rover and drive it, too. To take it out for a guilt-free spin knowing that your Powered by Carbon Offset Credits bumper sticker will elicit a thumbs up from other drivers, not that other, less wholesome gesture.
In many ways, Las Vegas – where ostentation and conservation coexist, though somewhat uncomfortably – could be ground zero for the ecological consumerism movement. Read full story:
