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Urban Innovation Symposium – February 5, 2011

Urban Innovation Symposium – February 5, 2011. Elise Zelechowski Founder and Executive Director, ReBuilding Exchange Deputy Executive Director, Delta Institute. Delta Institute. Mission to help transform the Great Lakes region to center of the emerging green economy.

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Urban Innovation Symposium – February 5, 2011

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  1. Urban Innovation Symposium – February 5, 2011 Elise Zelechowski Founder and Executive Director, ReBuilding Exchange Deputy Executive Director, Delta Institute

  2. Delta Institute • Mission to help transform the Great Lakes region to center of the emerging green economy. • How we do it - policy, training and education, creating transferrable models. • Focus areas broad – urban ag, brownfields, carbon, green buildings, waste.

  3. One such model is the ReBuilding Exchange. • Problems we working to address: • Waste (40% of our waste stream is building materials) • Lack of access to affordable construction materials • Lack of local jobs

  4. Innovation • creating a platform for people to reuse materials. • combining education and access to materials in one location. • promoting sustainable building deconstruction in lieu of traditional wrecking ball demolition. • training people with barriers to entry to the workforce.

  5. Process to developing the ReBuilding Exchange.1) Assemble stakeholder group 2) Develop agenda for initiative3) Perform market study with researchers from UIC4) Raise start-up capital5) Target education at a systemic level – who are the stakeholders that need information, what kind of information and why

  6. Barriers we’ve encountered • Education on how to reuse materials • Education of policymakers on how to support material reuse – not enough data, reluctant to take risks. • Balancing cost/efficiency with mission • Clear understanding of the workforce connections – are these union jobs or jobs for low skill workers and how does that impacts the viability of the concept

  7. How we are addressing these barriers • convening a Cook County-wide urban deconstruction forum with diverse stakeholders. • hosting educational workshops • working to build a better system infrastructure to make reuse a more efficient and cost effective practice

  8. www.rebuildingexchange.org (773) 847-3761 * info@rebuildingexchange.org 2160 N. Ashland, Chicago, 60614

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