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Building Resilient Local Economies

Explore success stories and innovative strategies for building resilient local economies, from industrial symbiosis in Denmark to eco-friendly solutions in the Hudson Valley. Discover how frugality leads to creativity and how energy efficiency initiatives can save jobs and promote sustainability. This informative guide offers insights on scaling up the energy-efficiency industry, green roofs, building deconstruction, and more.

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Building Resilient Local Economies

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  1. Building Resilient Local Economies Melissa Everett, Ph.D. Executive Director Sustainable Hudson Valley www.sustainhv.org/ 845-331-2670

  2. From frugality grew creativity in Osage, Iowa • Concerted energy-efficiency push for industry • Saved jobs and retained manufacturing • Fox River Mills grew 200 - 400 employees

  3. From adversity, creativity… • Kalundborg, Denmark “industrial symbiosis” - 6 major companies • “waste = food” • Cut water use 25% and oil use by 20,000 tons/ year

  4. Blinding flashes of the obvious St. Lawrence County NY, late 1990s • Under-employed farmers • Under-utilized farmland • Millions of dollars in local banks • Importing chickens!!!!!!!!

  5. And in the Hudson Valley… • Underemployed communications and marketing professionals • Green living chic • Vast quantities of energy-guzzling housing stock • Energy-efficiency services - inefficiently delivered

  6. Scaling up the energy-efficiency industry • Residential ESCOs - community owned? • Revolving loans - on-bill financing? • Geographic targeting

  7. Green roofsReduce cooling costsCut wastewater loadCan double roof lifeCreate jobs

  8. Chicago City Hall

  9. Building deconstruction and salvage

  10. Recycling Based Industries

  11. Historic preservation services & materials

  12. Combined heat & power technologies for district energy • Wood-fired • Biogas • Make sense when large institutional energy users are close together • Eco-Grid in Hudson as case study

  13. Eco-Grid, Hudson NY • $100,000 NYSERDA-funded feasibility study • Identified wood-fired CHP strategy for district at City’s edge • Replicable?

  14. Thank you!

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