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

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