New Green Economy: Moving to Future States: From Today to Green and Beyond
Posted by Patrick O'Shei on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 @ 04:36 PM
TeamCarbon Symposium - to be presented at the NCSE Annual Conference on the New Green Economy, January 2010
From Today to Green and Beyond
Those implementing "Green Solutions" today must recognize and build upon existing conditions, systems and their supporting infrastructure as well as work with the underlying financial resources available and returns demanded from those investments.
Successful Green solutions, and drivers of the New Green Economy will come from the intersection of significant energy consumption and points of leverage for high return on investment opportunity.
The existing commercial/public building and transportation infrastructure and systems represent the vast majority of energy consumption. The points of leverage come from both redesign of systems and betterment of the existing infrastructure.
The most significant lever is in the redesign of systems and supporting infrastructure but that also has the most upfront investment cost and since the existing infrastructure was built over decades...
The point of leverage that better balances leveraging small or incremental investments is "betterment" where specific green technologies are inserted into existing systems and infrastructure. These technologies range from intelligent sensing and control systems to more efficient motors and equipment to reuse or reclamation of current wasted resources and hybrid technologies which work with the current systems/infrastructure and will also work with new systems and infrastructures.
We look forward to joining other participants/ presenters Jan 20-22, in Washington, DC. At the conference, we will present real-world, economically justified, green/ sustainable solutions in large-facilities design/ construction (http://bit.ly/TC_MMGatNCSE2010), multi-campus facilities portfolio management (http://bit.ly/TC_TTatNCSE2010), and trucking/ distribution/ transportation (http://bit.ly/TC_RMIatNSCE2010).
Click the links to peek at our presentations and cases; send us an email (info@teamcarbon.com) if you'd like to receive a copy of the follow up blog postings and journal articles from the conference. Click http://bit.ly/NewGreenEconomy for more information about the symposium, the National Council for Science and the Environment - and the slate of speakers.
We look forward to meeting you there!