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Sun, 2012-01-29 11:23 — mdmcdonald
The SF - Economics Collaboratory focuses on the issues associated with economic change in a Resilient San Francisco..

The mission of the SF - Economics Collaboratory is to explore issues of economic change in a Resilient San Francisco, utilizing a distributed smart grid in times of post-inexpensive non-renewable energy, climate change, and other strategic challenges emerging from rapidly changing global and local ecosystems. 

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California’s Cap-and-Trade a Versatile Tool for Environmental Policies

Mon, 2014-06-23 20:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

environmentalleader.com - by Erica Morehouse - June 23, 2014

Governor Brown signed a budget last week that lays out for the first time how to invest the millions from California’s landmark cap-and-trade program ($734 million so far). California has shown another way that cap-and-trade is like the Swiss army knife of environmental policies: a versatile tool known for its usefulness and adaptability.

A Multi-faceted Investment Portfolio

California will invest $850 million over the next year to reduce dangerous climate pollution, a portfolio of investments that will benefit almost every part of California’s economy, going to low-carbon and public transportation, weatherization and energy efficient buildings, water efficiency, waste diversion, and natural resources like urban forests.

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing Are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism

Fri, 2012-03-30 23:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Jeremy Rifkin - huffingtonpost.com - March 28, 2012

The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication technologies converge with new energy systems. New energy revolutions make possible more expansive and integrated trade. Accompanying communication revolutions manage the new complex commercial activities made possible by the new energy flows.

Today, Internet technology and renewable energies are beginning to merge to create a new infrastructure for a Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) that will change the way power is distributed in the 21st century.

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Why San Francisco Can Be the World's First VERGE City

Mon, 2012-02-06 17:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Derek Top - greenbiz.com - January 31, 2012

Maybe it's a West Coast thing. While the VERGE discussion at last week's GreenBiz New York City event centered on the city's famous competitive edge in finance, research and development, and, ahem, football, the folks on the San Francisco GreenBiz Forum panel concluded that a VERGE city should focus on "how does it make living in a city better."

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Cumulative Wealth to Resilient Wealth

Sun, 2012-01-29 11:27 — mdmcdonald

Continuing to explore the ways in which technological and social change affect our relation to money…

 Resilience

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