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SED Network
The Sustainable Economic Development Network (SED Network) exists to advance the fields of Sustainability and Economic Development and to encourage the emergence of the new field of Sustainable Economic Development. The SED Network website features Profiles, Conceptual Frameworks, Best Practices, News, and Forums.
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Profiles
The SED Network website profiles places that are undertaking Sustainable Economic Development Strategies. Four places – San Jose California, San Antonio Texas, the State of Delaware, and Portland Oregon – are examples of the growing number of cities and regions to launch Sustainable Economic Development Strategies.
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Conceptual Frameworks
Sustainable Economic Development is based on the premise that a sustainability revolution is taking place – a transformation from an old economy that is high pollution, high carbon, waste intensive, and ecologically disruptive, to a new economy that is low pollution, energy/resource efficient, low or zero carbon, and ecologically supportive.
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Best Practices
The four central objectives of Sustainable Economic Development are sometimes referred to as the Four Greens – Green Savings, Green Opportunities, Green Talent, and Green Places. A Sustainable Economic Development Strategy accomplishes these objectives by systematically integrating Sustainability with widely accepted Economic Development best practices.
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"Get Richer By Becoming Greener"
SED Network
The Sustainable Economic Development Network (SED Network) exists to advance the fields of Sustainability and Economic Development and to encourage the emergence of the new field of Sustainable Economic Development. The SED Network website features Profiles, Conceptual Frameworks, Best Practices, News, and Forums.
SED Network assists places (cities, counties, regions, and states) that have undertaken Sustainable Economic Development Strategies to share ideas and best practices.
SED Network encourages new places to launch Sustainable Economic Development Strategies and connects these places with the full range of resources available to assist them.
SED Network helps build the conceptual frameworks and the bodies of practice guiding Sustainable Economic Development.
Profiles
The SED Network website profiles places that are undertaking Sustainable Economic Development Strategies. Profiles take the form of a very brief characterization of the particular Strategy with a link to a more detailed Power Point.
Five places – San Jose California, San Antonio Texas, the State of Delaware, Portland Oregon, and Sarasota County Florida – are examples of the growing number of cities and regions to undertake Sustainable Economic Development Strategies.
They were all featured at the first international conference addressing Sustainable Economic Development, Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas, which took place in Curitiba Brazil in June 2011.
Conceptual Frameworks
Sustainable Economic Development is based on the premise that a sustainability revolution is taking place – a transformation from an old economy that is high pollution, high carbon, waste intensive, and ecologically disruptive, to a new economy that is low pollution, energy/resource efficient, low or zero carbon, and ecologically supportive.
Businesses, cities, and regions that lead this economic transformation will prosper, because the new economy will outperform and eventually replace the old one in the long run. Businesses, cities, and regions that lag are in danger of being left behind.
Our time is somewhat analogous to 100 years ago when the oil and automobile industries emerged together and everything changed – the way cities and regions grew; the way transportation took place; which industries succeeded and which failed.