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Page 1: SSV Overview

Collaboration for Innovation

Where are we heading?

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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.

Collaboration for Innovation

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Water: Recycled Decentralized Conservation Energy/Water Policy & Planning

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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.

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

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Sustainability: Sustainable environments are built on healthy ecosystems.

An ecosystem is a interconnection of producers and consumers of a material or resource.

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2010 West Summit – Annual Conference

4/1/2011 Making the Case: Storytelling for Engagement and Investment in Sustainability

Hosted by

Recent Events:

3/11/2011 Creating a Carbon Reduction Strategy Hosted by

1. Sponsor and Host events

2. Launch products and services

3. Meet Silicon Valley Leaders through EcoCouncil

4. Expand your Business through targeted marketing and Outreach

5. Introductions to angel investors and Venture capitalists

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•  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

Advantages of Joining Sustainable Silicon Valley

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Join Us!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sustainable-Silicon-Valley/130078980367297

http://twitter.com/sustsiliconvly

SSV Partners include: