Emerging Industries Project
We are pleased to share with you the first four chapters of the Emerging Industries Project: Sustainable Manufacturing, Construction & Demolition Waste Recycling, Energy Efficiency and Building Retrofits, and Stormwater Management. Each industry was selected based both on its potential to provide quality employment to people with barriers to employment and its potential for significant growth in our region.
Because these sectors are still relatively small, the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Green Economy Task Force struggled to find research on the needs of these companies in terms of workforce, policy, and funding. Most studies to date had focused too broadly on all businesses within the clean energy economy and had not given people on the ground enough tangible, industry-specific evidence to either capitalize on opportunities or address remaining barriers to growth.
The Emerging Industries Project is our methodology for collecting data directly from local businesses, building productive relationships between job trainers and employers, and informing our collective work to grow the green economy. Like the Green Economy Task Force itself, the Emerging Industries Project is informed and driven by four essential elements of a robust and equitable green economy: Policy, Funding, Job Training, and Employer Commitment. The process for each chapter includes a public meeting or forum; targeted interviews; business/employer roundtables; site visits; working groups; and a final policy paper or industry report. Each chapter aims to give Stakeholders of the Green Economy Task Force a foundation from which to develop industry-focused strategies for the road ahead.
Read the complete first three chapters here:
Chapter 1: Redeveloping Local Sustainable Manufacturing
Chapter 2: Developing Construction & Demolition Waste Recovery
Chapter 3: Energy Efficiency and Retrofit
Chapter 4: Gray to Green - Jumpstarting Private Investment in Green Stormwater Infrastructure
View the PowerPoint from the October 2009 Green Economy Task Force Stakeholder Meeting, where we released the first three chapters of the Emerging Industries Project here.
the inner city communities are at a terrible disadvantage to the senior homeowner who are at present having these problems with trees growing through their homes – the city of Philadelphia isn’t taking responsibility for the destruction and the seniors do not have the ability to either cut them down or pay for services – shame on philadelphia – this is not a good idea
By: cathy santos on March 8, 2010
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Would love to hear and learn more about how to participate in your efforts to create a real greening of the local economy in Philadelphia.
Thanks for keeping me posted about this sort of thing.
Sincerely,
Laura Prezio
By: Laura Prezio on March 12, 2010
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By: Gray to Green Report Release « Green Economy Task Force on March 19, 2010
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