Welcome to the premiere Vlog post by The Chief Green Officer, Yeves Perez. The CGO will respond to a recent web post on FastCompany.com, called, " The 5 Best Cities for Cleantech Companies" - by Ariel Schwartz - Jun 12, 2009.
Besides the outstanding weather, and the effects good weather year plays in favor of higher productivity , the San Diego region has for too long taken a back seat on the list of Green Cities that offer great potential and here are my top 10 reason why San Diego should compete with Boston.
#10) A growing Cleantech sector built off the back of the BIOtech and other High-tech industries... and not to mention our award winning Military facilitates for Sustainable practices, and the San Diego Port Authority. In June 2007, the Global Connect Program prepared a very detailed assessment of real assets and capabilities and There is a talented pool of well-trained scientists and engineers for the emerging cleantech industry to draw upon thanks to the presence of other technology clusters, such as biotechnology, wireless telecommunications, and the defense industry.
#9) The 2007 assessment also noted that there were already 148 cleantech companies are in San Diego. The majority, or 67 companies, offer products or services for energy generation. The next largest groupings are in water and wastewater, energy efficiency, and recycling and waste. Of the 148 cleantech companies in the region, 89 are within the City of San Diego. Among these companies are leaders such as Kyocera Solar, General Atomics, Hydranautics, and the Verenium Corporation.
#8) San Diego is endowed with certain natural resources, including solar radiation, wind power capacity, and energy generated from the ocean, that offer advantages for clean technology development. Wind and solar resources are more abundant in the eastern portion of San Diego County.
#7) San Diego is highly vulnerable, year in and year out, to water shortages and sever draughts that lead to devastating wildfire seasons adding to billions in damage claims.
#6) The city was part of ground zero (all of Southern California) that was victim to the outragous energy hikes and rolling blackouts the Enron left in it's wake and every year as he City's population increases the potential for multi "brown outs" are high every summer.
#5) In 2008, one cleantech company allow received $100 million in investment. Sapphire Energy took another step closer to bringing Green Crude Production to commercial scale today through a Series B round in the fall during the "Crash". Sapphire is now financed to scale up its production facilities to full commercial feasibility. Sapphire anticipates relying on existing investors to achieve its initial commercial production capability of 10,000 barrels per day. Sapphires investors include ARCH Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust, Venrock and Cascade Investment, LLC, an investment holding company owned by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
#4) The region boasts many Cleantech advocacy and support groups, such as Clean Tech San Diego, The San Diego Sustainability Alliance, and the California Center for Sustainable Energy, which boasted a slew of Fueling Alternatives that was funded by the California Air Resources Board ( CARB). CCSE quickly exhausted a total of $1.8 million which was appropriated and directed toward vehicle incentive rebates to promote the use and production of alternative fuel vehicles.
#3) The City of San Diego also boasts some of the most talented Green Leaders in the State, such as San Diego's Cinderella solar startup, Envision Solar, local green building Juggernaut, Green House International, Inc., which acquired the distribution rights to a new technology called "the micro-fueler" in Southern California and Arizona. This technology alone has sparked an Organic Fuel revolution that was endorsed and embraced by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
#2) The city is raising up and incubating new talent an leadership with the leadership of UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Rady School of Management, and the Sustainable Solutions Institute and San Diego Sate University's Enviro Business Society.
#1) We can't forget Carolyn Chase with movesd.org, formed in January 2004 by citizens, environmentalists, bicyclists, pedestrians and transportation experts to build broad support for sustainable transportation systems and land-use policies. She is also CEO of San Diego Earth Works, which produces the largest Earth Day event in the country!
Make sure to check out more about the article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/5-best-cities-c...
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