Blue is the New Green Michigan s Emerging Blue Economy
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1 Blue is the New Green Michigan s Emerging Blue Economy Ottawa County s Ninth Annual Water Quality Forum Friday, November 7, 2014 West Olive, Michigan John Austin, President, Michigan State Board of Education Brookings Institution Non-Resident Senior Fellow Director, Michigan Economic Center at Prima Civitas THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM
2 We always talk about the Great Lakes region, with 20% of world s surface freshwater, around which live 50,000,000 people GLEI BROOKINGS
3 And the scale of our waterfront real estate THE GREAT LAKES & ST. LAWRENCE RIVER REGION HAVE OVER 11,000 MILES OF LAKE FRONTAGE CHICAGO THIS EQUATES TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, & PERTH, AUSTRALIA. PERTH GLEI BROOKINGS
4 And our world leading centers of research and learning TOP INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING 20 OF WORLD S BEST RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES ARE HERE MORE THAN ANY OTHER REGION JOINING RICH NETWORK OF COLLEES & COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO PRODUCE THE TALENT - ENGAGED IN THE FUTURE OF WATER, TECHNOLOGY AND THE PLANET PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR INNOVATION GLEI GLOBAL CLASSROOM BROOKINGS LED GREEN REVOLUTION CAN LEAD BLUE REVOLUTION
5 And how water makes magical places to live, work & play GLEI BROOKINGS
6 And with Healthy Waters, Strong Economy: Economic Impact of Great Lakes Restoration report, came the reality that clean water and restoration make you rich! Lakes and their waterways are a major economic and environmental asset Metro benefits of restoration, in millions of 2006 dollars: Detroit: $3,700-7,000 Buffalo: $600-1,100 Milwaukee: $1,500-2,300 GLEI Chicago: $7,400-13,300 Cleveland: $2,100-3,700 BROOKINGS
7 Water defines us, and gives us Pure Michigan
8 But what does this really add up to? What is this Blue Economy? GLEI BROOKINGS
9 Great Lakes & Michigan s Blue Economy - Building on Great Lakes region s abundant water, access to water, water education and innovation assets to grow jobs and incomes Five ways water matters to the economy today
10 Legacy Uses: Shipping, Ports, Commercial Fishing Great Lakes States and Provinces: Over 200,000 jobs, including 65,000 jobs, $3.3 billion wages/yr. in Michigan
11 Big Water Using Businesses: Agriculture, Energy, Manufacturing, Beverages 581,000 jobs (8th in nation in share of employment) and $40 billion annual wages in Michigan 1.2 million jobs in Great Lakes
12 Emerging Water Products and Services For Trillion $ Global Water Technology Market Great Lakes States and Provinces: 1.2 million jobs Michigan - 140,000 jobs (10th in nation) Fast-growing VC $ to water tech: over $370 million in US; $50 billion water asset funds globally
13 Centers of Education, Research and Innovation Michigan Tech If Michigan s 3 top Research Universities do $300 million in R&D Great Lakes 20 Top Tier: $2 billion in water R&D If Michigan s 9 Univ. Water Centers, 18 Community Colleges train thousands in water work; Great Lakes Universities-Colleges educate tens of thousands
14 Water Place-making and Lifestyle If Michigan s Restoration, Place-Making, Boating, Fishing, Recreation and Tourism adds up to 210,000 jobs and $7.5 billion annually Great Lakes States and Provinces well over 1 million jobs - $50 billion
15 Blue really is the New Green Green Economy Wind, solar, battery, bio-mass, next energy technology creation Blue Economy Water cleaning, monitoring, conservation products and services Building retrofits, turbine machining, solar panel production, transit-building: green collar jobs Greenways, parks, open-space: green places Green lifestyles and values: Green roofs, recycling, local food, energy conservation, sustainable living Building retrofits, water infrastructure repair, Filter making, blue-collar jobs Blueways, wetland preservation, waterfront renewal, water trails Blue lifestyles and values: Rain-gardens, grey water systems, green infrastructure water-saving lifestyles
16 Look at Milwaukee. River makeover.open up Lake Michigan Celebrate Lake Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Water Institute.Marquette Water Law and Business Water Cluster - The Water Council.BadgerMeter, A.O.Smith, Veolia, Koehler.. One of UN global cities leading in water innovation GLEI BROOKINGS
17 Grand Rapids. Greenest US mid-size city, led by smart water use putting rapids back in the Grand core city redevelopment facing the river for talent retention repurpose manufacturing like Cascade Engineering water purifying products. GVSU- Annis Water Resources Institute. GLEI BROOKINGS
18 Macomb County Blue Economy Initiative: 32 miles of freshwater coast, largest freshwater estuary, boating, fishing, metro-parks, nautical mile, birding, blueway trails, Clinton watershed Freshwater studies and problem solving (Macomb, St. Clair CC s and WSU) firms finding new water technology products to make GLEI BROOKINGS
19 Marquette, Duluth, Hamilton, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Traverse City, now Buffalo are doing it GLEI BROOKINGS
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21 Examples: Water Place-Making Your Bay Your Say Bay Shore Corridor Boardman River Prosperity Plan Marquette Harborfront Bay County Roadmap Saginaw Watershed Initiative Manistee : Explore the Shores & Lakes to Land initiative St. Clair Blue Meets Green Muskegon Harbor Waterfront Stitching Grand River into Grand Rapids Huron River-UP! Macomb Blue Economy Initiative Detroit Riverfront- Refuge Clinton River WaterTowns
22 Water Education, Research, Problem-Solving Michigan Tech Great Lakes Research Center Grand Valley State Water Resources Institute Northwestern Michigan College Freshwater Studies SVSU Environmental Science Programs Lawrence Tech Great Lakes Stormwater Management Institute WSU Macomb Community College HEART Alliance for Water Research Michigan State University Center for Water Science U of M Water Center
23 Water Technology Product and Service Firms Dow: membranes, filters Keewanaw Geothermal Research Group Serv-a-Pure: superprue water Algal Scientific water recovery Plymouth Technologies waste water treatment Cascade Engineeering Bio Sands Filter Limnotech & ECT - engineering, water ecosystem management Parjana Distribution stormwater Treatment Mannik Smith Group - green infrastructure
24 Healthy Waters, Strong Economy 3:1 to 6:1 Economic Impact for clean-up. AOC s Some Superfund sites getting done. So far under Great Lakes Restoration Michigan -$163 million spent Sault St. Marie St. Mary s River Superfund Site Kalamazoo River Superfund Site St Clair River Bi- National AOC Muskegon - White Lake, Area of Concern Monroe Area of Concern
25 Lessons in Blue Economy-Building Restore, Clean, Re-Connect to, and Celebrate Water Leverage and Grow the Water Education, Research and Innovation Centers of Excellence and Activity Support Businesses Growing Sustainable Smart Water Solutions new products and services solving emerging global freshwater challenges Embrace Values of Sustainable Water Use, Water Stewardship, Water Innovation- Sends message Great Lakes is the place where we care for our water, and are solving world s water challenges.
26 Cleveland Minneapolis Then Rust will become Blue GLEI Milwaukee BROOKINGS Detroit
27 GLEI BROOKINGS
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