Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) is a multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative formed in 2000 to promote environmental sustainability in Silicon Valley. SSV works with over 120 public and private partners to accelerate innovation through connecting businesses, researchers, and government. SSV provides educational forums and an online platform called EcoCloud to enable collaboration around sustainability best practices, pilot projects, and industrial ecology. Joining SSV offers opportunities for networking, learning, and expanding business through sustainability leadership.

1. Where are we heading?
Collaboration
for
Innovation

2. Collaboration
for Innovation
Work with Sustainable Silicon Valley™
Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) was formed in 2000 as a multi-
stakeholder collaborative initiative to produce significant environmental
improvement and resource conservation in Silicon Valley through the
development and implementation of a regional environmental
management system (EMS).
How do we get it done?
Sustainable Silicon Valley in conjunction with over 120 public and private
sector partners, accelerates transactions between business leaders with
technology innovators, researchers, and government agencies to make
enterprises more sustainable and profitable.

3. Building Capacity
Sustainable Silicon Valley provides educational forums and events for
building awareness and knowledge on a range of topics….
Sustainability Leaders Forum to share best practices and build
mastery of sustainability knowledge. Forum meetings feature peer-to
peer learning, expert instruction and opportunities to network and
explore issues of common concern. It is by invitation only.
EcoCouncil for executive sharing of sustainability strategies. It is a
quarterly series of evening conversations aimed at catalyzing change
at the highest levels within organizations. Often taking place at a
“green” executive home in the Valley, these intimate networking
events involve challenging topics and an opportunity to openly
dialogue on successes and challenges with other leaders.

4. Pilot Projects
EcoCloud: Virtual Industrial Ecosystem
Launched Beta in December 2010, EcoCloud™
(http://www.sustainablesv.org/ecocloud) is a platform providing information,
networking and tools to collaborate with Silicon Valley businesses,
industry experts, academia, and policy-makers to make your enterprise
and region more sustainable and profitable.
Smart Micro Grid for Santa Clara University
SSV helped Santa Clara University and its utility service providers launch a
campus-wide smart microgrid, as the University works towards it’s goal of
becoming carbon neutral by 2016, provides the basis for knowledge transfer
among SSV partners as they also move to create their own smart micro
grids – integrating smart buildings, renewable energy, storage and
communications.
Public Environmentally Preferable Purchasing System(PEPPS)
SSV government partners, led by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation
Authority, developed a website to support aggregation of demand by public
agencies to increase purchasing power for environmentally preferred
products and services. This tool is being migrated into EcoCloud.

5. EcoCloud: A Place for Collaborative
Innovation
• Founding principle: sustainability is not an obligation, it’s an
opportunity. The goal is to create an innovation community
around sustainability.
• EcoCloud provides an open platform where companies,
municipalities, thought leaders and academia can collaborate
through shared agreements and innovate around sustainability
• EcoCloud is a living, breathing proof of concept that the best way
to stimulate sustainable innovation is through open innovation
and unleash forces to accelerate our green economy.
• EcoCloud invites your case studies and product launches.
This is also a place to find ways to overcome common
challenges. We are a community of practice for building a
sustainable economy.

6. Industrial Ecology:
Eco-industrial parks consist of
industries and businesses located
in close proximity, working in
partnership to minimize their
environmental impact through a
number of collaborative projects in
building design, landscaping,
energy efficiency, renewable
energy production, pollution
prevention, resource recovery, or
by-product exchange.
EcoCloud™ is designed to be a
virtual industrial ecosystem,
providing a forum for companies in
the Bay Area to collaborate and
establish the linkages key to any
industrial ecosystem.

7. Water:
Recycled
Decentralized
Conservation
Energy/Water
Policy & Planning

8. Materials:
• Disposal
• E-Waste
• Hazardous Materials
• Recycling
• Design for
Environment
Recycling Market
Development Zones
This program provides
attractive loans, technical
assistance, and free
product marketing to
businesses that use
materials from the waste
stream to manufacture
their products and are
located in a RMDZ zone.

9. Energy:
Smart Grid & Micro Grid
Renewables
• Solar
• Wind
Efficiency
• Green Building
• Green Vehicle Tech
Energy Policy Laws

10. Sustainability:
Sustainable environments
are built on healthy
ecosystems.
An ecosystem is a
interconnection of
producers and consumers
of a material or resource.

11. Recent Events: 1. Sponsor and
Host events
4/1/2011 Making the Case: Storytelling for Engagement
and Investment in Sustainability 2. Launch products
Hosted by and services
3/11/2011 Creating a Carbon Reduction Strategy 3. Meet Silicon
Hosted by Valley Leaders
through
EcoCouncil
2010 West Summit – Annual Conference 4. Expand your
Business through
targeted
marketing
and Outreach
5. Introductions to
angel investors
and Venture
capitalists

12. Advantages of Joining
Sustainable Silicon Valley
• Best Practices – Your company staff learn from others at
competitors and also other types of organizations and
business sectors
• Peer-to-Peer learning from experts
• EcoCloud Tools and information
• Great networking for business development and product
launches
• Branding and Sustainability - Opportunity to build partner's
visibility and leadership in Silicon Valley

13. SSV Partners include:
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