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Networks and Neighborhoods: The Coming Sea Change in 21st Century Global Economies Low Carbon Earth Summit Dalian, ChinaOctober 20, 2011
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Overview Clean Economic Development Defined - Energy and the role in economic development- Extraction of energy as basis vs. knowledge as basis - Reversing the "race to the bottom" 21st Century Tools for Clean Economic Development- ICT and social media- Innovation in finance, policy and technology
21st Century Perspectives for Economic Reform- Principles of biomimicry- Fitting natural systems synergy to economic development models
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
Tallberg Forum 2008
• CE Defined: Energy Drives the Economy
Source: www.brookings.edu/economics/bpea/bpea.aspx
• CE Defined:Extractive Economy vs. Clean Economy
Extractive Energy Economy
Plastics, fertilizers, pesticides
Transports all goods (including food) and people, “runs” the global economy
• CE Defined: Extractive= Taking from a declining source
• CE Defined:Extractive = not if, but when….
• CE Defined: Clean = Taking from a replenishing source
• Clean = Instead of waste as garbage, waste as “feedstock”
MaterialsEnergy
Product ($)
Non-product (waste)
• CE Defined: Extractive = Garbage and waste
• CE Defined: Extractive- As supplies dwindle, prices rise
Quantity, or supply, decreases
Costs increase
• CE Defined: Clean: Increasing returns, not diminishing returns
Clean
Ideas as “base” for economy means a “sustainable” source; as the base increases, value and opportunity increase
• CE Defined: Reversing the "race to the bottom"
Extractive
Clean
• CE Defined: Extractive Energy Economy vs. Clean Energy Economy
• CE Defined: The Extractive Economy: Huge Potential Threat
• CE Defined: The Clean Economy: Huge Market Opportunity
“Peak Oil” is not a question of “if” but
“when…”
This “gap” can be “filled” by energy efficiency and clean energy solutions
• The Clean Energy Economy
Policies Markets
ReducingRisk
Mobilizing Capital
Technologies
Source: NREL
Innovations can occur in all three areas: Tech, Policy, & Markets
Clean Energy Economic Growth
• CE Defined: The Clean Energy Economy: Silver Buckshot
Finance
Clean Energy Markets: Megawatts & Negawatts
Generation: How do we create value propositions for increasing CE megawatts?
Distribution: How do we accelerate the flow of CE megawatts through the grid? How do we increase the flow of clean fuels to end users? How do we build the market for clean energy vehicles?
Efficiency: How do we build business models for marketing “negawattage?” How do we retrofit physical infrastructure to optimize energy usage?
21st Century Tools for Clean Economic Development
For "rich" economies, networks of microgrids
For "rich" economies, networks of microgrids
For "emerging economies," leveraging telecom
• 21st Century Tools: Visualization/Data and Social Media
21st Century Tools: Innovation in Finance/Micro and Crowdsourcing
21st Century Tools: Innovation in Policies- Munis and Local
21st Century Tools- CleanWeb and BitCoinz
21st Century Perspectives for Economic Reform: Biomimicry
To get the right answer, you must ask the right question....
...how can we transform our "cancerous" activity to a system that will sustain us?
21st Century Perspectives for Economic Reform: Biomimicry
Our only limit is that of our imagination...
Questions? Alison Wisewww.linkedin.com/in/[email protected]
For more on Cleanweb - "The next major step forward""Cleanweb is the application of new information technology to our resource problems
It holds the promise of cleantech-size markets
with the speed and capital efficiency of web-based businesses.
The cleanweb will be the most important driver of cleantech innovation this decade."
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