[env-trinity] EcoCloud Innovation and California Water System: Nov. 12th Meeting at SAP, Palo Alto
Mark Dowdle - TCRCD
mdowdle at tcrcd.net
Mon Nov 8 13:55:11 PST 2010
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Subject: EcoCloud Nov. 12th Meeting at SAP
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:55:04 -0600
From: Wholly H2o <info at whollyh2o.org>
Reply-To: r.162.31392.0d38c40ee568a4f7 at whollyh2o.org
To: M. MDowdle <mdowdle at tcrcd.net>
*Wholly H2o is an active member of the SSV EcoCloud. At this month's
meeting, Elizabeth Dougherty, director of Wholly H2o will be presenting
on Integrated Water Management. **Join us!*
*When: *
*Friday, November 12, 2010 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM*
*Where:*
*SAP *
Executive Briefing Center
3410 Hillview Ave, Building 1
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1395
Sustainable Silicon Valley is organizing an event – Come hear the next
in Ecocloud lessons learned and upcoming concerns and solutions for
/California’s Water System/ that our speakers have to impart and
/network with your virtual Ecocloud Neighbors/. The EcoCloud is a
virtual neighborhood of existing and potential recycled water customers,
“virtual” industrial neighbors, consultants, vendors and other technical
experts. Ecocloud gives you a way to reducing costs and networking with
your partners.
*
*Statewide data for California's water systems, and potential
regional application*: /Rich Juricich/, water resources engineer
at /DWR/ will talk with us about the statewide system being
created to monitor California’s entire water cycle (inputs,
outputs, human uses, environmental uses). Rich works in the
Integrated Data and Analysis Branch of DWR.
*
*Aligning Human and Earth Life Support Systems:*/John Hogan,/
environmental scientist at /NASA /will explore how the principles
of regenerative life support and systems engineering developed for
space exploration may be applied to create integrated and
regenerative human systems that simultaneously support and respond
to dynamic physical, chemical, and biological life support system
here on Earth.
*
*Integrated Water Management in the Context of California's Water
Crisis:*/Elizabeth Doughtery/, Director of /Wholly H2o/,will
address the potential features of an integrated water management
approach that focuses on conservation, efficiency and rain, storm,
gray and black (recycled) water as the primary features.
*
*Market for H2Ownership: Smart Markets */James Workman*,
*/co-founder*//*/SmartMarkets LLC/*,* will raise some of the
economic challenges facing the EcoCloud, and how the emerging
online platform for trading water efficiency within and between
water districts could make recycled water increasingly viable, and
valuable, for more businesses and cities. He will also describe
how the coping skills of Kalahari desert bushman can help us
address our water crisis.
*
*Sustainable Water Use: A case study of cooling tower use of
recycled water:* /Erick Hawkins/, /Air Products/
*
*Ecocloud Innovation Virtual Network Update*
*For More information, please contact*
Mary Kean, PE
Program Manager, Sustainable Silicon Valley
Email: mkean at sustainablesv.org <mailto:mkean at sustainablesv.org> (650)
318-3638 x 106
*More information about EcoCloud*
*/EcoCloud™ /*is a “virtual industrial ecosystem” where Silicon Valley
industry, government and educational institutions work together to
implement and share sustainable business practices. Sponsored by
Sustainable Silicon Valley, a cross-sector collaborative dedicated to a
sustainable future, and drawing on the latest social networking tools,
EcoCloud™ is designed to put the principles of industrial ecology to
work in Silicon Valley and beyond.
*/A Virtual Industrial Ecosystem for Silicon Valley/*
Inspired by the model of industrial ecology, the *EcoCloud™* is
designed to be a */virtual /*industrial ecosystem, providing a forum for
companies to share sustainable business practices. Although most
industries in the *EcoCloud™ *are not located next to each other, they
share a common interest in reducing energy usage, conserving resource
and eliminating waste—while at the same time cutting costs to improve
their bottom line. Just as “cloud computing” uses the distributed
power of the internet for more efficient data processing, the EcoCloud™
harnesses the power of web-based social networking tools so local
business leaders and facility managers can work with industry experts,
technology innovators, university researchers and government agencies
to make their enterprises more sustainable and more profitable.
Still under development, the *EcoCloud™* will ultimately address all the
major intersections of industry and environment, including energy, air,
water, land use and material resources. Currently, *EcoCloud™* members
are paying particular attention to the *urban water cycle*, focusing on
the *industrial use of recycled water* as a way to minimize demand on
drinking water supplies, lower total energy costs and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
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Wholly H2o's
<https://www.whollyh2o.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1367&qid=31392>
mission is to equip Californians with the information and skills
necessary to normalize water conservation and efficiency, as well as
rainwater, graywater, stormwater and black water reuse/recycling. The
purpose is to mitigate the currently unsustainable demands on California
water supplies, and corresponding environmental degradation to
California’s natural water systems. The goal is to use our water in the
most appropriate manner possible given our realtime existing conditions.
Our secondary mission is to provide the information and training
necessary to expand the water-related green jobs market throughout the
state of California.
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Fiscal Sponsor
Trust for Conservation Innovation
423 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States
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