2. Implement and promote replicable models for
sustainable and equitable economic development
through partnerships
Community-Based Small Businesses Local Government
Organizations
4. Achieve over 50% Reduce low- and Create approximately
of greenhouse moderate 40,000 jobs (measured
gas reductions in the income homeowners’ in
building sector energy job-years) locally
bills by up to 40%
5. The Block by Block Model: Achieve economies of scale
through
Aggregation and Organizing Energy usage data
streamlined energy for on-bill collection and
audits recovery analysis
6. A record 660+ 14 CBOs First Retrofit
low - income supported through Incentive Search
homeowners Green Jobs Green App in U.S.
enrolled in one year NY
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7. Quality jobs Inclusive Ec. Dev Feedback Loop and
,
Manufacturing jobs 65% of manufacturing Multipliers
pay $25,000 more workers have < HS 1 job 2.34 jobs
annually than service 70% + are people of 1$ inv. $1.40 in ec.
sector jobs color dev.
8. Q. Do you market your
company
as green or environmentally
sustainable?
Yes No
Q. Which of the following reflects Growing 52% 20%
your company’s revenues over
the past 12 months? The Same 17% 20%
Declining 23% 60%
9. MINYC Model : Create market synergies to reduce
emissions, catalyze green products, and localize
purchasing.
Local Cooperative Small Business
Local Branding
procurement Distribution Partnerships
10. 40 companies linked
19 Farm to Factory 860+ MINYC
to municipal energy
partnerships companies
efficiency projects
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12. Source: NBC 4 Source: Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene
Access to employment Reduces burden on an Reduces pollution
overtaxed
infrastructure
13. Source: Streetsblog Source: MTA Source: Adam E. Moreira/Wikipedia
Dedicated bus lanes Real time information Station-like bus
and signal prioritization stops
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14. Source: MTA Source: MTA
2008: Launch of Select Bus 2010: Implementation 2012: Planning new
Service program of 5 routes routes
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15. Thank You!
Myles Lennon
Development Manager
(718) 637 8643
http://www.prattcenter.net
Editor's Notes
Horizontal layout – more open space, not as jarring font,
Model = innovative programs and solutions that addresses the root causes of economic and environmental problems inlow- and moderate income communities History – Launched 40 years ago, NYC was burning. Created non-profit architecture practice inside Grad School of Architecture to help communities rebuild their housing and their communal lives. For the students, offer service learning. SWOT Shift in community concerns and needs. People were more concerned about global warming and job creation then Pratt’s traditional issues. Not just a function of the economy but long term change. Shift also based on our own analysis of challenges and opportunities: The investment we need to make to transition to a low-carbon economy creates the opportunities for new business and job creation. On the other hand, if low-income communities don’t participate in weatherization and the transition to clean renewable energy, if they remain stuck in the existing system, they will be both energy hogs and exporters of wealth to buy energy, and entire society will be poorer and dirtier.
And we work toward this objective by undertaking Applied research, grassroots organizing, TA to CBOS, and policy advocacy, and most importantly our work is premised on the notion that change can only come about when all of these elements are working in tandem. You cant craft and advance good policy unless its attuned to the voices and needs on the ground; you cant yknow provide planning or architectural support to a community by conducting research divorced from that community’s lived experience, so really all of these arrows could be flowing in multiple direction, cant emphasize that enough. SO now I want to quickly introduce you to a few of our programs, all of which I could talk to you for hours about, but I will do my darnest to be succinct and id be more than happy to go back and actually address any specific things that pop up fot you/ next slide
First are you familiar residential retrofits – caulking wehterstripping, doorsweeps, insulation, boiler replacement, light swap BXB aims to bring residential retrofits to scale in NYC through replicable measures that can be applied to other low- and moderate-income urban communities. This program emerged out of the extensive body of research out there demonstrating that residential energy efficiency is really needed if we’re gonna address climate change and build a more sustainable economy. And specifically, residential retrofits, we know, are capable of achieving half of our country’s GHG emission reductions in the building sector (basically, through retrofits we can achieve sizable GHG emision reductions and its estimate dthat half of thiose can come from small homes)… and in NYC based on the data we have, it’s estiated that 40k jobs measured in job years would result from a mass retrofit effort Last Program is BBB – weatherization of low income communities Weatherization was a core strategy in the whole green job movement, Those job projections and expectations have not materialized. Problem of scale. BBB is our strategy for addressing this by leveraging community networks.
And so specifically there are three ways that we work under Block by Block to bring retrofit to scale. First is aggregation – small urban homes were built in batches, many blocks have the same building materials, heating and cooling systems, age and size, and we know that the same retrofit measure s- whethe rits caulking insulation, boiler replacement, what have you – that these same measures are needed in similar homes. Unfortunately most retrofit incentive programs require whats called an energy audit, which is a long and costly process of evaluating a building to determine what energy efficieny measures are needed. Based on data we know that the same measures can be applied to the similar houses so this isnt fully necessary, and in auditing each hosue, we waste a tremendous amount of dollars, time, and often alienate and confuse homeowners who simply want to make their homes greener. So we’re doing things to correct this. First, we work with CBOs, block associations, civic associationad and shouses of worship to collectively enroll multiple similar dwellings into state retrofit programs with a single contractor to reach economies of scale. Second, we’re piloting a project to streamline the audit process by auditing 100 homes and identifying a standard package of retrofit measure sthatc an be applied to all similar homes. Once weve completed that we will work with policymakers to ensure that homeowners can just call up a contractor and receive incentive to retrofit their homes without the long and cost audit process Financing program where hoemowners can pay back the cost of energy efficiency improvements through a monthly surcharge ont heir energy bill that is lower than the projected monthly energy savings, so they’re actually saving money while paying for job-generating, energy efficient improvements. The problem is that as simply as I made it sound its difficult to explain all the nuts and bolts in layperson’s terms, and as a result, most low and moderate income communtiies have the lowest enrollment rates in energy efficiency incentive programs or don’t know anything about it. So what we do is, we train and buld the capacity of cbos to tap organize their communtiies around on-bill recovery, that si, get them to undertsnad OBR, get them to sign-up and participate, and green their communities If were really gonna bring EE to scale, we need to be able to track what measures are actually reducing GHG emission, lowering energy bills and creating jobs. So we creating retrofit tracking system where communtiy groups can low all of their communities retrofit emasures, measures, and energy usage data so at the end of the day we can identify what works and what doesn’t work.
As a snapshot of some of our recent outcomes, Iin four targeted communties throughout NYC and this was a record figure, Trained 14 CBOs to launch local retrofit campaigns under the State’s new GJGNY program – which I’d be happy to explain more about if youre interested NYC retrofit funds finder which is an online application that helps homeowners and community groups identify what retrofit incentives they’re eligible for based on a number of factors, including income, location, type of heating system, size of building – and although this may sound like not a big deal, there are so many different retrofit incentives programs out there and there is no single tool that we know of at least, that enables homeowners to do this. We’re still beta testing this and were meeting with NYCEEC because really tis quite sophisticated software that we cant maintain by ourselves
Deborah Mills Woodcarving and Global Corkus Aims to grow small urban manufacturers for several reasons Opportunities for advancement Provide opprotunity for people who disparately work in low-paying sectors Manufacturing is an economic engine. every dollar invested in manufacturing operations generates $1.40 in economic activity and every manufacturing job creates 2.34 jobs in other sectors nationally. R+D clustered with production and product design you enable the quick flow of information and and ideas that sparks innovative new, more sustainable products
And specifically we focus on sustainable and green manufacturing, and heres a snapshot of why. (doesn’t preclude greenwashing obviously, but it give you a small sense of the opportunity for growth through sustainable business) Small survey, working on increasing sample. Message we need to take to manufacturers.
Through MINCY, fosters sustainable economic development by creating the critical market synergies that reduce commercial transportation and packaging, catalyze green product development, and localize consumer purchasing. We achieve this through four complimentary models: Local Procurement – work with local government to source roducts for green projects locally – were specifically working with SCA – theyre doing 700 million dollars worth of school retrofits and were working with them to source most of the boilers, lighting, and cooling systems locally Cooperative Distribution – small healthy food manufacturers pay an unsustainable portion of their revenues on having large outside companies do distribution, sow ere working with a handful of small food manufacturers to develop a cooperative distribution system where all of the companies have a stake in the distribution of their goods and arent relying on large outside companies to do it for them Entrepreneurial Partnerships – link food manufacturers to upstate farmers, design and local manufacturers, we have burgeoning high0-end niche design and healthy food production they should be sourcing their products locally; reduce emissions and Local Branding – consumers want to support a localized economy, and we help companies tap into that through our MINYC branding, which includes an online local business directory, a marketing tag and other promotion signaling that a product is locally made
Lampworks So just to give you a sense of some of our recent outcomes, 40 local green companies to SCA’s school retrofit projects, those projects are still in their formative and bidding stages, but we are seeing a real willingness on the part of the government and their contractors to buy locally
Many of the best practices we’ve seen here in NYC with other cities, and collectively work for policies and programs that support urban manufatcuring based on our respective experiences
BRTY All the red are the communtiies underserved by public transportatin with his levelof vehicular traffic
Also enables Bus talks to the streetlight and the light stays green – traffic signal prioritization – dispatch system – buildings and GPS
