{"id":4543,"date":"2013-07-06T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2013-07-06T06:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T10:59:18","slug":"portlands-clean-economy-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/portlands-clean-economy-of-place.html","title":{"rendered":"Portland’s Clean Economy of Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nIronically,\r\nPortland is the prime example in both\r\n\r\nAmy Liu’s slides<\/a> and\r\nthe book\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe Metropolitan Revolution:\r\nHow Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy<\/a>\r\nby Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz.\r\n

\r\nHere’s Bruce Katz in the Guardian 23 April 2012,\r\n\r\nUrbanization and Inventing a Clean Economy of Place<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nPortland, Oregon, is also internationally renowned for its\r\ncommitment to sustainable development. The Portland metropolis has\r\nan expansive public transit system and an urban growth boundary to\r\ncontrol development at the urban periphery. The city boasts a\r\n\r\ngreen investment fund<\/a>\r\nto provide grants for residential and commercial building projects.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNow the city is striving, like Copenhagen, to reap the economic\r\nrewards of sustainable development through business formation, firm\r\nexpansion, job growth and private investment. In February, Portland\r\nreleased its first regional export plan to double exports over five\r\nyears by building on the region’s distinctive economic and physical\r\nattributes. A critical pillar of this strategy involves increasing\r\nthe export orientation of firms in the burgeoning clean technology\r\nsector to serve growing markets in Asia, Latin America and\r\nelsewhere.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Hm, a clean economy of place; there’s an idea.\r\nHere’s one of Portland’s green investments:\r\n\r\n12W (Indigo) Project Report<\/a>,\r\n

\r\nA new mixed-use project with energy and stormwater conservation measures\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nValdosta is actually already doing something similar to that\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nwith those solar panels at the Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.\r\nSure, that happened almost by accident because of the now defunct\r\nbiomass plant location being next door.\r\nBut Valdosta is now expanding that solar farm.\r\nWhat if, while renovating the Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant,\r\nValdosta put solar panels there, too?\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nOr how about buying up some of those houses in the floodplain\r\nand putting solar panels there instead?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nFor more ideas, see\r\n\r\nPortland’s list of green investment projects<\/a>;\r\nmany of them are “featuring energy and stormwater conservation measures”.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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