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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
Source: Pike, A., Dawley, S. and Tomaney, J. (2009) Adaptation and evolution in the geographies of resilience, Draft Paper, CURDS: Newcastle University
OutputOr Jobs
Time
Denuded
Steady state
Enhanced
Strategy/ Sector
Energy Efficiency/Green Building
Renewable Energy Waste andRecycling
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.
Strategy/ Sector
Renewable Energy
Green Building/Energy Efficiency
Recycling/Waste-to-
Energy
Transportation
Linking Strategies create connections between elements of sustainability strategies and economic or workforce development.
•Richmond, CASolar RichmondBerkeley, CABerkeley FIRST
•Los Angeles, CA Chicago, IL Waste-to-Profit Network
•Los Angeles: Greening the Port
Transformational Strategies attempt to transform or “green” existing economic sectors or stren.
•Toledo, OHFrom glass to solar panels
Pittsburgh, PA Green Building Alliance Syracuse, New YorkNew York CityNYC Green Manufacturing•Initiative
Bronx, NYCSustainable South Bronx
•Portland, OR•Building light rail cars
Leapfrogging Strategies attempt to build entirely new green sectors and jobs.
Austin, TX. Cleveland/Cuyahoga County
Los Angeles RENEW LA
•King County/(Seattle, WA•Biowaste to Biodiesel
Framework for Linking Sustainability Strategies to Economic Development
Strategy/ Sector
Renewable Energy
Green Building/Energy Efficiency
Recycling/Waste-to-
Energy
Transportation
Linking Strategies create connections between elements of sustainability strategies and economic or workforce development.
•Richmond, CASolar RichmondBerkeley, CABerkeley FIRST
•Los Angeles, CA Chicago, IL Waste-to-Profit Network
•Los Angeles: Greening the Port
Transformational Strategies attempt to transform or “green” existing economic sectors or strengths
•Toledo, OHFrom glass to solar panels
Pittsburgh, PA Green Building Alliance Syracuse, New YorkNew York CityNYC Green Manufacturing•Initiative
Bronx, NYCSustainable South Bronx
•Portland, ORlight rail cars
Leapfrogging Strategies attempt to build entirely new green sectors and jobs.
Austin, TX. Cleveland/Cuyahoga County
Los Angeles RENEW LA
•King County/(Seattle, WA•Biowaste to Biodiesel
http://www.prospect.org/cs/special_report
Source: Electronics, Design, Strategy News.
Top 10 Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine Manufacturers
Solar Wind
Company Country Of Origin
Cell Technology
Capacity 2008
(announced)
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
Are all green jobs good jobs?
Austin and Toledo
• 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 • First Solar• Xunlight• Solargystics• >6000 employed in 15
research and manufacturing enterprises in solar industry
First Solar, Perrysville, Ohio
Xunlight’s founders with their prototype product
XunlightToledo, Ohio
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 large-scale 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 state-of- 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