CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
4 Part Seminar Series
April 30, 2008:
Municipalities
June 12, 2008:
Community Education and Outreach
September 18, 2008:
Private Sector
October 16, 2008:
Agenda In Action
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Municipalities
Rochester
Syracuse
Auburn
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Municipalities
1) County and Statewide Actions
2) CNY Municipal Programs
Compare to model used in California’s Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006.
Discussion: Understanding, and fostering Skills Required
for green jobs.
Municipalities requiring LEED standards for Buildings and
new construction.
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Municipalities
City of Rochester: “Green Team”
Discussion: Green Initiatives
Building, Transportation,
Purchasing,
Climate Registry
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Municipalities
City of Auburn:
Methane Gas Project
Geothermal...City Hall
Auburn Municipal Power
Sewage Sludge Digester
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Municipalities
City of Syracuse:
Accelerate 2008
Promoting new ideas in technology,
manufacturing, energy and environment.
Using sustainable practices to boost
local economy.
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Community Education and Outreach
FOCUS Greater Syracuse:
Engaging in public policy and research.
Creating vision: Separating myth from fact.
NEED Project: National Energy Education Development
Promote an energy conscious and educated society.
Onondaga Community College: Sustainability Initiative
Environmental
Stewardship
Social Equity
Economic Health
Tompkins County: Weave a fabric of sustainability:
Weave critical sectors such as policy, education,
workforce, and the community into a sustainable
mindset.
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Private Sector
2030 Challenge: Ashley McGraw Architects
Buildings Matter
Creating zero energy buildings Plan to reduce nonrenewable energy to 0 by 2030
Michael Kelleher: SUNY ESF Renewable Energy Systems
Sustainable Fuels and More Efficient Use of
Resources
Converting Waste to Fuel, ESF Biodiesel Production Facility
Fuel Cell, Efficient Power and Heat Generation
Photovoltaics, and
Green roof insulation and storm water control
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Private Sector
Wind Energy in New York State: Dr. Rick Smardon, SUNY ESF
Renewable Energy Policy In New York State
Wind Farm siting issues
Local wind turbine siting & ordinances
Case studies:
Cape Wind Massachusetts
Fenner, New York
Local wind turbine siting & ordinances
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Action and Agenda
Ed Bogucz: Syracuse Center of Excellence
CNY now one of the Internationally recognized hot
spots for green innovation
Fueling the “Green Innovation Ecosystem”
in Central Upstate New York
SyracuseCoE “innovation platform”
Lori Deitz: Syracuse Metropolitan Development Association
Taking advantage of market growth projections
Establish Upstate Regional (sustainable energy) Alliance
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Action and Agenda
Sue Miller, Deputy Director, Lake Improvement Project,
Onondaga County:
Greener Infrastructure: Making natural
systems work for us.
Thomas Rhoads: Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
Impact of recycling
Public Education: Empower individuals with
the knowledge that one person CAN make a difference.
“Waste Minimization and Recycling are Opportunities for all of us to
Mitigate Climate Change.”
CNY's Response to Global Energy and
Climate Change Challenges: Is It Sustainable?
Can We Do It ?