Conference Session at Intersolar North America:
Category: AHK San Francisco - News-Hauptkategorie“Green Cities - Sustainability as an Economic Growth Engine”
On Intersolar North America, the world’s leading brand for solar exhibitions and conferences, the conference Session “Green Cities - Sustainability as an Economic Growth Engine”, taking part on July 10th, 2012 from 2.00-6.00 pm in San Francisco, shows how the turn to renewable energies offers huge opportunities for added value and growing employment on a local level.
In the “Green Cities” conference session, an integrated part of the Intersolar conference, will be explained and demonstrated how solar energy plays an important role in achieving sustainability aims of cities. Renowned speakers from California and Freiburg, Germany, a city which is internationally known for its environmental approach and and its extensive use of solar energy and other renewable sources, will share their knowledge of future opportunities and threats to green renewable growth in cities.
The Major of Freiburg Dieter Salomon opens the session with the lecture “Green City: Sustainability as a guiding vision for urban development”, Bernd Dallmann from Cluster Green City Freiburg will point out the business aspect of a green city with his lecture “Green Growth Model Freiburg: sustainability as business opportunity”. Gerhard Stryi-Hipp from Europe’s largest solar research institute Fraunhofer ISE, presents recent research findings and within explains “How to become a Smart City”. From Californian side Bradley E. Baker, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Codding Investments, Sonoma Mountain Village, gives an introduction into "The Solar Sweet Spot: 1 Megawatt Neighborhood Systems", Dawn Weisz Executive Officer of Marin Clean Energy will present the vision and the strategy of the Marin Clean Energy program and Danielle Murray from the Department of Environment, San Francisco, reports on “Driving local economic development through sustainability leadership”. Finally Hansjoerg Lerchenmueller, CEO of Soitec Solar, will give a best practice example of solar business in both the United States and Germany with his lecture: “Solar energy as a driver for economic development – Case studies from Freiburg and San Diego”.
Within the Green Cities session at Intersolar North America, businesses can get in contact with forward-looking public administration and research representatives as also experience business solutions for green renewable growth in cities.
Green City Conference Session
InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco
July 10th, 2012 from 2.00-6.00 pm
