Feb 9, 2010: State of Green Business Forum: San Francisco
Breakthroughs in corporate commitments to sustainability were also noted in the report, including GE’s plan to cut water used by 20 percent by 2012, Cisco’s commitment to cut emissions by 25 percent, also by 2012, and JohnsonDiversey’s investment of nearly $14 million to reduce its carbon footprint. The launch of Walmart’s Sustainability Index, which asks nearly 60,000 suppliers to answer questions about greenhouse gas emissions and measure to reduce solid waste, along with a recent ruling by the SEC requiring companies to report climate risk were major steps towards corporate environmental accountability. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010971.html
Here's the results of my preliminary research for resources to help us make the economic case for Hermosa Beach going carbon neutral. Ultimately I think we're going to need to supply something along the lines of the tables in this 2003 report done at Middlebury College:
Carbon Neutrality at Middlebury College. Carbon neutral portfolio and financial impacts: http://community.middlebury.edu/~cneutral/conclusion.htm
Positive Prospects For California's Green Businesses Jan 22, 2010 - "Innovating the Green Economy," a report by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Community Innovation (CCI), was unveiled at yesterday’s conference on green economy innovation. (A policy brief from the report, titled "Green, Local, and Growing," is posted on the CCI website; the complete report will be available on the website next Wednesday.) Sponsored by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the study comes at a time of heightened economic anxiety and of renewed pledges by elected leaders in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento to focus their efforts on job creation — especially green jobs. The researchers found that in California, the green economy accounts for just one percent of jobs in the state, but is growing about 50 percent faster than the rest of the economy overall. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1813466/positive_prospects_for_californias_green_businesses/ http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/01/22_greeneconomy.shtml
Multiple Bay Area stakeholders meet on how to green the local economy Jan 25, 2010 - More than 200 turned out Thursday for "Innovating the Green Economy," a campus conference on how to turn an emerging and much celebrated "win-win" into actual businesses and real paychecks for local communities. "Job creation is now on the front burner of government at all levels," said Jennifer Wolch, dean of the College of Environmental Design, in opening remarks at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley. "This offers a major opportunity to thoughtfully, but swiftly, develop strategies designed to insure that a big chunk of those jobs are in the green economy." http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/01/25_greenconf.shtml
New Studies tout the economic benefits of green jobs
Clean-Energy Investment Provides Economic Boost, More Jobs, and Expanded Opportunities
New Analysis Demonstrates How America Can Create 1.7 Million Jobs and Opportunities for Low-Income Families
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2009) -- As clean energy and climate legislation moves through Congress, new data show that a $150 billion investment in clean energy could create a net increase of 1.7 million American jobs and significantly lower the national unemployment rate. According to the analysis, shifting to a clean-energy economy will help millions of low-income Americans by creating more accessible job opportunities -- with the potential for advancement -- and by lowering utility bills and transportation costs.
http://www.grist.org/article/new-studies-tout-economic-benefits-of-green-jobs/ http://www.nrdc.org/media/2009/090618.asp
EDF Clean Energy Economy: http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=41887&s_src=ggad&s_subsrc=cleanenergy&gclid=CM29styzw58CFQRLbQodVx1hUA
EDF RESOURCES ON THE NEW CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY:
Green Building Offer Cost Benefits/Cost and Benefit Issues
The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings: A Report to California's Sustainable Building Task Force, "finds that an upfront investment of less than two percent of construction costs yields life cycle savings of over ten times the initial investment."
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/greenbuilding/Design/CostIssues.htm
Green Building Creates Green Jobs for a Green Economy
Green building creates green jobs, and green jobs will be crucial as we build a new green economy.
A new Booz Allen Hamilton study released by USGBC on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Greenbuild 2009 predicts green building will support or create 7.9 million jobs between 2009-2013 and will contribute $554 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1954&gclid=CMb5heayw58CFQdLbQodtEClzg
EPA economic benefits of green buildings and vehicles
Even though this is on the tribal compliance website, it's got an excellent set of resources
http://www.epa.gov/tribalcompliance/buildandveh/bveconomicdrill.html
The Green Economy Initiative, United Nations Environment Programme
The Green Economy Initiative (GEI) is designed to assist governments in "greening" their economies by reshaping and refocusing policies, investments and spending towards a range of sectors, such as clean technologies, renewable energies, water services, green transportation, waste management, green buildings and sustainable agriculture and forests
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/
Community Engagement, Planning & Action
To help community leaders and stakeholders embrace environmental stewardship and sustainability as a central element of planning, policies, and practices
http://www.auduboninternational.org/cepa.html?gclid=CLr0uv-zw58CFQhbbQodcB1z0w
Siemens World Future Energy Summit Jan 18-21, 2010 http://w1.siemens.com/entry/cc/en/wfes.htm?stc=wwccc020895 http://www.worldfutureenergysummit.com/home.aspx
Economic Benefits of Green Spaces http://www.projectevergreen.com/why-green-matters/economic-benefits/
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