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Building Resilient Local Economies. Melissa Everett, Ph.D. Executive Director Sustainable Hudson Valley www.sustainhv.org/ 845-331-2670. From frugality grew creativity in Osage, Iowa. Concerted energy-efficiency push for industry Saved jobs and retained manufacturing
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Building Resilient Local Economies Melissa Everett, Ph.D. Executive Director Sustainable Hudson Valley www.sustainhv.org/ 845-331-2670
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
From adversity, creativity… • Kalundborg, Denmark “industrial symbiosis” - 6 major companies • “waste = food” • Cut water use 25% and oil use by 20,000 tons/ year
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!!!!!!!!
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
Scaling up the energy-efficiency industry • Residential ESCOs - community owned? • Revolving loans - on-bill financing? • Geographic targeting
Green roofsReduce cooling costsCut wastewater loadCan double roof lifeCreate jobs
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
Eco-Grid, Hudson NY • $100,000 NYSERDA-funded feasibility study • Identified wood-fired CHP strategy for district at City’s edge • Replicable?