Sustainability drives innovation and imagination. It is not top down, it is not bottom up, it is the whole the best of both the top and the bottom. How to create a sustainable city?

1. Seeing in new ways across boundaries

2. Designing: time to go beyond dialogue. Task-focused prototypes

3. Acting in combinations: thinking small and big at the same time

Report-Outs

• Government Sector: Retrofitting streetlights with LEDs. As government sector, energy savings = rate payer savings. We have an obligation. Smart government = smart buildings with energy reduction goals. 20% reduction in government energy use by 2020.
• Community Stakeholders: “Race to the Summit”. Challenge communities to compete. Start with the schools. Suggest that the prize is given by the Dept. of Energy
• Neighborhood Sector: BHAG—create a national model to do energy retrofits in residential sector across all housing types. The project would be completely funded by the savings. Educate residents about energy efficiency and leave room for learning.
• Academia/Education: monitor real time energy consumption to provide feedback in the home, school, City of Cleveland in general. At Tower City, we could have an energy consumption meter. K-12 and higher education could partner to share best practices. Goal—reduce energy consumption by 50% in all buildings.
• Academia/Education:“Energy Counts for Education”. It should be embedded into the curriculum.
• Nonprofit/Philanthropic Sector: Students as opinion leaders. By 2019, 100% have received instruction and can demonstrate understanding and suggest improvements in regards to energy efficiency. The cost savings pays for the curriculum.
• Nonprofit/Philanthropic Sector: marketing, motivating, and educating. Creating green schools and neighborhoods school-by-school and block-by-block. The students do the work to green the schools and the neighborhoods. It is an apprenticeship program for green jobs.
• Large Business: Sustain momentum by setting “stretch goals” Transparency of structures and products to drive standards and codes. Driven by competition. City of Cleveland challenges Pittsburgh , an intr-city challenge.
• Large Business: Turn $50 into $1,000s. The retrofit industry in Cleveland has to take its talents elsewhere and we become an export economy of energy efficiency.
• Large Business: Big Business = Big Behavior. 100% of big businesses create a platform to enable sustainable behaviors to be the norm.
• Large Business: Fact base of energy use in buildings in the next 60 days.
• Small Business: Geothermal. Virtualize to use water to cool servers. Measure and manage energy. Create something similar to a “miles per gallon” rating that goes on a house when it is being sold. KWH per Year. It could include solar energy and other amounts of energy it will produce.
• Small Business: in 2019, through everyone, we will continue to practice sustainability by educating employees, partnerships between small and large businesses. By 2019, at least 40% of all small businesses will be participating in sustainability.
• Small/Med Business: By 2019 The Cleveland Partnership leads community education programs about energy efficiency that reduce consumption by 50%
• Arts and Culture: Community will partner with the Dept. of Energy to create diverse, walkable and sustainable neighborhoods. Coming together block-by-block. More people coming back and using less energy.
• Students: Northeast Ohio schools collaborate on energy efficiency. They have an online database of sustainability internships, zero waste at the schools, add sustainability into the K-12 curriculum.
• Science/Engineering/IT: Bridging the gap between investment and payback. Neighborhood level energy efficiency grid modernization. Near site designate a development area that integrates smart buildings, fully modern grid and advanced and renewable energy. “Smart Energy District”.