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The decision of Vulcan Power Co. to locate its corporate headquarters in Reno marks a significant milestone in the region’s efforts to become an international center for the industry.

And executives who are leading the push to build the presence of the geothermal industry say they’re targeting far more than than construction and operations jobs at geothermal sites across northern Nevada.

They want the Reno area to serve as a center for high-value professional jobs — geothermal research, project engineering, natural resource law — as well as manufacturing of equipment for geothermal projects worldwide.

“We’re trying to build a cluster,” says Jason Geddes, who’s helping to recruit geothermal companies in his role as environmental services administrator for the City of Reno. Read full story:

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Entrepreneur?

Are you an entrepreneur? Find out at Startup & Growth Strategies’ (SGS) 3 day workshop for people who want to, or think they want to, work for themselves.

As Norman Bushnell said, “Anyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It is the person who gets out, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference in the world”.

SGS helps budding entrepreneurs, or those with a business idea, start a business with the least risk, least investment, and greatest chance of success. Learn how to test and evaluate your idea and market BEFORE you spend money on business cards, brochures, licenses, logos, web sites, etc.

And if you think you need investors in order to start – think again! Investment capital is virtually non-existent in today’s tough economic times. Learn how to start on a shoestring and bootstrap your company to success.

Join SGS’ Entrepreneurs Community and learn “real world” techniques and strategies from “real world” guys who have “been there – done that”. In the last 120 days, SGS has created over 30 entrepreneurial ventures of which SIX are already producing income!

In partnership with NCET, Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and UNR.  Portion of proceeds benefit NCET.

September 11^th & 12^th with follow-on workshops the 14^th & 15^th – all at Joe Crowley Student Union on the UNR campus.

More info at: www.sgs101.com

Northern Nevada business leaders remain strongly pessimistic about the economy and the prospects for recovery, the Sierra Region Economic Outlook Mid-Year Business Survey  shows. After nearly 63 percent of respondents rating economic conditions as poor or very poor, experts this week said the findings serve notice that change, from infrastructure to education, is needed to pull Northern Nevada’s business sector out of the recession. Read full story:

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Social Media & Digital Marketing brought to you by the country‘s leading expert, Lon Safko!

This event brings you the best strategies of social media and growth-oriented marketing brought to you by the guy who wrote the book “The Social Media Bible”. Understand how to analyze your existing marketing and how to integrate trusted networks, blogging, and Twitter into a new “killer – strategy”.  The cost of  $39.95 includes an autographed copy of Lon’s book. Seating is limited.

September 9, 2010; 9am – 12:00pm

RSVP at www.scorelv.org

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has historically been the bane of progress on legislation that caters to healthy and sustainable communities.  It’s no surprise, given the U.S. Chamber’s Board, which consists of big business magnates including Massey Energy’s Don Blankenship. Massey Energy is best known for the  neglect of and resistance to government safety regulations that led to the explosion in the company’s West Virginia coal mine that killed 29 miners and wounded many others earlier this year. News stories frequently cover pending legislation by framing it as, “The environmentalists are for it, but business is against it, because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says so.” 

The U.S. Chamber definitely represents a segment of the business world, but more the Wall Street/Big Business crowd than the Main Street/Small Business crowd, where the majority of new jobs come from, and who generally support Cap and Trade, Toxics Inventories, and other progressive legislation.

Despite the fact that Apple, Nike, Pacific Gas and Electric, and several other big players moved away from the U.S. Chamber earlier this year in protest to the body’s opposition to Cap & Trade legislation, there remains no strong, cohesive political voice of the progressive business community.  Enter the Green Chamber of Commerce.  And today, the group announced they are expanding, with their first new chapter outside the progressive business element that is the San Francisco Bay Area.  Destination: Las Vegas? Really? Read full story:

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