1. Jenna A. Lamphere
Jon Shefner

2.  Deindustrialization and its impact on the US
economy (Mishel, Bivens, Gould, Shierholz 2012)
• 1950s- 28% of all workers in manufacturing
• 1979- 21.6%
• 2007- 10.1%
• 2011- 8.9%
 Wages, pensions, and other benefits have
stagnated
 Average compensation rose only 10.7% from
1973-2011, despite productivity increase of
80.4% (Mishel, Bivens, Gould, Shierholz 2012)
 Impact on TN economy (Murray 2012)
• 2000- 493,000 manufacturing jobs
• 2010- 297,800

3.  Environmental Degradation in the United
States
• 40% of rivers are too polluted for aquatic life to survive
(greenstudentU.com 2013)
• 55.8% of land is experiencing exceptional to moderate
drought (National Climatic Data Center 2013)
• The average adult consumes 3,000 gallons of polluted
air every day (greenstudentU.com 2013)
 The Knoxville Area
• The TN River is the 4th most polluted river in the nation
(Posner 2008)
• Ranked the 15th city with the worst air quality (Flory 2011)
• Ranked 10th in greatest carbon emissions among the
nation’s largest cities, producing 3.134 metro tons per
year (Brass 2008)

4. “The ‘green’ or ‘clean’ or low-carbon economy
[is] defined as the sector of the economy that
produces goods and services with an
environmental benefit.”
 Knoxville Metro Area
• 2nd highest share of green economy jobs (4.9%)
• Fastest growing share of green economy jobs (14.6%)
• One of the least diversified green economies
• Lowest percentage of green economy jobs requiring less than a
college degree (56%)
• Highest percentage of science and engineering-related
occupations (34%)
(Muro, Rothwell, and Saha 2011)

5. Coordinated
Planning
Key Actors: City planners
and government, educators,
environmentalists, and
business, community, and labor
leaders
Green
Economic
Growth

7.  Actually Helping Communities
• Collaborative planner and partner
• Low-income training and financing of projects
• Small business consultation
• Information and demonstration
 Provide Education- widely defined
• Training- job skills, educated workforce
• Educating students- internships, service learning
initiatives
• Educating consumers
 Establish an Information Clearinghouse
• Expertise/consultation
• Product and process showcase
 Everybody’s Needs
• Resource/funding source

8. Brass, Larisa. 2008. Knox Among Top Carbon Emitters: Metro Area Ranks 10th on Nationwide List.
Knoxville News Sentinel, May 29.
Flory, Josh. 2011. Air Pollution Lands Knoxville on ‘Dirty’ List. Knoxville News Sentinel,
November 21.
GreenstudentU.com. 2013. Encyclopedia: Pollution. Retrieved July 23, 2013
(http://www.greenstudentu.com/encyclopedia/pollution).
Mishel, Lawrence, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, and Heidi Shierholz. 2012. The State ofWorking
America, 12th edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Muro, Mark, Jonathan Rothwell, and Devashree Saha. 2011. Sizing the Clean Economy:A
National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment. Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings
Institute.
Murray, Matt. 2012. An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee:The State’s
Economic Outlook January 2012. Center for Business and Economic Research, College of
Business Administration,The University of Tennessee.
National Climatic Data Center. 2013. U.S. Drought Monitor Update for February 19, 2013.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved July 23, 2013
(http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/us-drought-monitor-update-february-19-2013).
Posner, Eva. 2008. “Study Leads to Interesting Results about Knoxville’s Water.” Tennessee
Journalist, School of Journalism and Electronic Media,The University of Tennessee.