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Put the “Eco” is an Economic
Development Tool: Regional
Eco-Economic Assessment
David Jaber
Natural Logic
May 9, 2007
“Regional Eco-Economic
Assessment”
Towards an Integral Economy
Goals
• Identify business sectors to develop given
environmental and community quality-of-life
needs
• Identify business sectors to investigate for
efficiency and waste reduction opportunities
• Identify “gaps” in the regional “ecosystem” of
businesses where new revenue streams and
sectors can be created by turning byproduct
wastes into a resource.
Project Outline
• Investigation for a city, county, or multi-county region
• Create a baseline of environmental impacts and economic
contribution, by industry sector
• ID
– The industries that give the largest contributions per
amount of impact
– The industries to investigate for environmental
improvement
• Evaluate productivity (econ benefits per amount of
environmental “non-product”)
• Evaluate the contribution of “nature’s services”
• Potential matches of non-products with resource needs
Aspects for Investigation
• Products: Value-added, job creation
• Non-Products: Solid waste, hazardous wastes,
wastewater
• Energy: Electricity and natural gas use
• Materials: Water, supplies
• Nature’s Services: land area, rainfall, sunlight
Framework
TNS Conditions
– Material from the earth’s crust must not accumulate
in the earth’s living systems
– Man-made substances must not accumulate
– Maintain health, diversity, and abundance -- preindustrial -- of the earth’s living systems
– Equity for all in sustaining and enriching life
Ethics
Permaculture Ethical Principles
• Care for the earth (husband soil, forests and
water)
• Care for people (look after self, kin and
community)
• Fair share (set limits to consumption and
reproduction, and redistribute surplus)
Source: Holmgren, David. “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond
Sustainability”
Framework (continued)
Permaculture Design Principles
1. Observe & Interact
2. Catch & Store Energy
3. Obtain a Yield
4. Apply Self-regulation & Accept Feedback
5. Use & Value Renewable Resources and
Services
6. Produce No Waste
7. Design From Patterns to Details
8. Integrate Rather Than Segregate
9. Use Small and Slow Solutions
10. Use and Value Diversity
11. Use Edges and Value the Marginal
12. Creatively Use and Respond to Change
First Step: Identify Area Industries
• Commerce lists by region
• IMPLAN
Second Step: Define Indicators
and Gather Data
• Economic
– Value-Added
• Environmental
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Toxics (TRI)
Energy Use (DOE)
Solid Waste (state/local)
Water (state/local, USGS)
Third Step: Calculate “Nature’s
Services”
• Solar Potential
• Rainfall
• Land Usage
Fourth Step: Analyze Results
• Compare
– Economic contribution to environmental impact
– Resource use to nature’s services
Fourth Step: Analyze Results
• Compare cross-industry outputs to cross-industry
inputs
Regional
Waste
Streams
Possible
Agricultural/Forestry/Industrial
Cluster
Forests
solid
waste
trees
Materials
Recovery
Facility
(MRF)
Logging
Camps and
Contractors
logs
Sawmills
and Planing
Mills
wood
products
Secondary
Wood
Products
wood
products
Boat
Building
and
Ship
Building
nonrecyclables
Landfill
recyclables
organics
packaging
and other
wastes
Export
wood chips
and
wood scraps
paper
paperboard
Paper
Products
Paperboard
Mill
waste paper
Compost
Operation
residues
Biofuels
wood wastes
wastewater
soil
amendments
mulch
compost
IN USE
NOW
Ecological
Wastewater
Treatment
Agriculture
agricultural wastes
animal feed
energy crops
NEW
Aspirations
• Expand nature’s services
– Open space as flood control, groundwater regeneration, air
cleansing
– Biodiversity
• Social Indicators
– % of Living Wage
– Human Rights ratings
– Employee injuries/lost work-days
• Make results web-based
Streamlining the Process
Web-based tools
• Quick access to data
• Easily review resource productivity trends, key ratios, key
comparisons
Natural Logic
Strategy and Planning
Metrics and Reporting
• Strategic sustainability assessments
• Measures that Matter workshops
• Sustainable economic development
• Indicators development
• Workshops and webinars
• Business Metabolics™ KPI
management system
• Sustainability reporting
David Jaber - [email protected]
510-849-5467
http://www.natlogic.com