Transcript Presentation

Discussion
Emerald Cities: Opportunities for Green Economic
Development
Professor Joan Fitzgerald,
Professor and Director of the Law, Policy, and Society
program,
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
13th May, 2009
Evolving pathways of adaptation
and resilience
Enhanced
Steady state
Output
Or Jobs
Denuded
Source: Pike, A., Dawley, S. and Tomaney, J. (2009) Adaptation and
evolution in the geographies of resilience, Draft Paper, CURDS:
Newcastle University
Time
Strategy/ Sector
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Linking Strategies
create connections
between elements of
sustainability strategies
and economic
development.
Transformational
Strategies attempt to
transform or “green”
existing economic
sectors or strengths.
Leapfrogging
Strategies attempt to
build entirely new green
sectors and jobs.
Energy Efficiency/
Green Building
Renewable Energy
Waste and
Recycling
Framework for Linking Sustainability Strategies to Economic Development
Strategy/ Sector
Strategy/
Sector
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Linking Strategies
create connections
between elements
of sustainability
strategies and
economic or
workforce
development.
Renewable
Energy
Green Building/Energy
Efficiency
•Toledo, OH
From glass to
solar panels
Leapfrogging
Strategies attempt
to build entirely
new green sectors
and jobs.
Austin, TX.
Cleveland/Cuya
hoga County
Transportation
•Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Waste-to-Profit
Network
•Los Angeles:
Greening the Port
Pittsburgh, PA
Green Building Alliance
Syracuse, New York
New York City
NYC Green
Manufacturing
•Initiative
Bronx, NYC
Sustainable
South Bronx
•Portland, OR
•Building
light
rail cars
light rail
cars
Los Angeles
RENEW LA
•King
County/(Seattle,
WA
•Biowaste to
Biodiesel
•Richmond, CA
Solar Richmond
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley FIRST
Transformational
Strategies attempt
to transform or
“green” existing
economic sectors
or strengths
stren.
Recycling/
Waste-toEnergy
http://www.prospect.org/cs/special_report
Top 10 Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine Manufacturers
Solar
Wind
Company
Country Of
Origin
Cell
Technology
Capacity
2008 (an
nounced)
Company
Country
Of Origin
Capacity
2007 (in MW)
Sharp
Electronics
Japan
Crystalline*
870
Vestas
Denmark
4512
Q-Cells
Germany
Crystalline*
834
GE Wind
US
3285
Suntech Power
Holdings Ltd.
China
Crystalline*
590
Gamesa
Spain
3048
First Solar
USA
Thin-film
484
BEnercon
Germany
2771
SolarWorld
Germany
Crystalline
460
Suzlon
India
2078
Sanyo
Japan
Crystalline
365
Siemens
Denmark
1405
BP Solar
UK
Crystalline
480
Acciona
Spain
871
Kyocera
Japan
Crystalline
300
Goldwind
China
831
Motech
Industries Inc.
Taiwan
Crystalline
330
Nordex
Germany
673
Solarfun Power
Holdings
China
Crystalline
360
Sinovel
China
673
Total (in MW)
8012
Total (in
MW)
19,791
Total for Top 10
5073
Total for
Top 10
20,147
Source: Electronics, Design, Strategy News.
Are all green jobs good jobs?
Austin and Toledo
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Political Support
City-owned utility
University Research
Incubator
Research
partnerships on grid
technology
• Incentives for solar
production
• Economic
development focused
on new technologies
• University research
• Incubator
• Incentives for solar
production
• Existing industry with
related competencies
Austin and Toledo, cont.
• HelioVolt
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First Solar
Xunlight
Solargystics
>6000 employed in
15 research and
manufacturing
enterprises in solar
industry
First Solar, Perrysville, Ohio
Xunlight
Toledo, Ohio
Xunlight’s founders with their prototype product
Vestas V27 at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center
Pittsburgh and Syracuse
• Non-profit organized
to promote green
building
• City government only
recently supporting
green initiatives
• Regional economic
development group
targeting green
industries
• City government only
recently supporting
initiatives
Pittsburgh Region:
• 2006 study identified 1800 building supply
manufacturers in the region, with total
employment of more than 68,000
• With $250,000 from Heinz Endowments &
$1 million from Pa. Ben Franklin
Technology Development Authority,
created Pa. Green Growth Partnership
GBA Projects Funded
• Ductmate GreenSeam II to further develop a product to
reduce duct leakage
• Tegrant Corporation and University of Pittsburgh to test
the performance of and production methods for a
insulated concrete forms
• Villanova University for developing a superlattice solar
cell prototype
• Geothermal Energy Systems and Carnegie Mellon
University for testing heating and cooling systems for a
neighborhood of buildings
• Temple University for ReD a type of window for largescale commercial buildings made of a material that shifts
from transparent to translucent to maximize light while
reducing heat loss and solar heat gains.
Syracuse Key Partners
• Center of Excellence
in Environmental and
Energy Systems
(Syracuse CoE)
(more than 140
institutional and
business members)
• Metropolitan
Development
Authority
CoE Successful Projects
• Hapcontrol LLC produces “bio-furniture” that
does not release harmful gases.
• Phytofilter Technologies is testing a plant-based
system for removing volatile organic compounds
from indoor air,
• Isolation systems Inc. is developing air
purification and room air management systems.
• NuClimate Air Quality Systems is testing a
prototype for its “Q” Air Terminal, a highly
efficient heating, cooling, and ventilation unit for
large public buildings .
New Addition to Syracuse
• BITZER Scroll, a German manufacturer of
energy efficient air compressors for stateof- the- art air conditioning systems,
located near Syracuse in February, 2008
and pledged to invest $30 million and
create 289 jobs over five years at an
average annual salary of $60,000.
• Destiny USA?
Discussion
Discussion
Alex Fowler, Energy Leadership Council
Andrew Mill, Chief Executive