Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy- How Massachusetts Can be the Center of Clean Technology Innovations that Serve the World, December, 2007

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This project looked at how Massachusetts can orient its economic development approach to encompass a range of clean technologies and make it a hub of clean tech innovation and adoption. Massachusetts was doing a good job of supporting clean energy technologies, but the Commonwealth had potential to lead in other clean technologies as well, which were largely being ignored. I was hired by the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production to develop and implement the project approach and develop the final recommendations. The work included research; interviews; facilitation of an advisory committee, a series of focus groups on different topics, and focus groups s in different regions of the state; and writing three reports. The project identifies five areas of clean tech where the state has leadership (materials reuse, green buildings, certain advanced materials, clean energy, and green chemistry), and provides overarching recommendations a for clean tech economic development and specific ones for each of the five technology areas. By creating a comprehensive clean tech economic development strategy that crossed existing environmental silos, synergies could be created that would further support and grow these industries. The recommendations are still timely, especially with the interest in the Green New Deal.