1	“Environment” is an Economic Development Tool: Regional Eco-Economic Assessment David Jaber Natural Logic 2006 Byproducts Summit November 30, 2006
2	“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.
3	"Investigation for a city" 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 ID industries to investigate for environmental improvement Evaluate productivity (econ benefits per amount of environmental “non-product”) ID potential matches of "wastes” with resource needs
4	"Products" Products: Economic value-added “Non-products”: Solid waste, hazardous waste (TRI), wastewater Energy: Electricity and natural gas use Materials: Water, supplies “Nature’s Services”: land area, rainfall, sunlight
5	First Step: Identify Area Industries Commerce lists by region IMPLAN
6	Second Step: Define Indicators and Gather Data Economic Commerce value-added Environmental TRI USGS Water Use DOE Energy Data State Agencies: Solid Waste, other
7	Third Step: Calculate “Nature’s Services” Solar Potential Rainfall Land Usage
8	Fourth Step: Analyze Results Compare Economic contribution to environmental impact Resource use to nature’s services
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18	Fourth Step: Analyze Results Compare cross-industry outputs to cross-industry inputs
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20	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
21	Streamlining the Process
22	"Web-based tools" Web-based tools Quick access to data Easily review resource productivity trends, key ratios, key comparisons
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