The Green City Clean Industry Initiative proposes investing in sustainable agroforestry, green cities, and clean industries through a socially responsible investment model. The initiative would use a "seed to market" cooperative microlending model to fund integrated biorefinery projects that convert municipal and agricultural waste into renewable fuels and products. These projects would help cities adopt the UN Green Cities Declaration to become more sustainable in areas like energy, waste reduction, transportation, and environmental health.
1. Green City Clean Industry Initiative
A call to action for clean cities
and green infrastructure now!
The Time to Act is Now for Socially Responsible Community Investments in
Sustainable Agro-Forestry, Green Cities and Clean Industries
2. Socially Responsible Investing
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a broad-based approach to investing that
has grown to over $5 trillion worldwide. SRI recognizes that corporate
responsibility and societal concerns are valid parts of investment decisions. SRI
considers both the investor's financial needs and an investment’s impact on
society. SRI investors encourage corporations to improve their practices on
environmental, social, and governance issues.
(Social Investment Forum (www.socialinvest.org)
As stated by Deutsche Bank's Pavan Sukdhev, the team leader in the preparation
of a new report for the United Nations Environmental Programme about the
potential impact of greening the global economy...“An investment of $50 billion a
year in around 100,000 conservation areas worldwide could secure $5 trillion worth
of services provided by these natural assets while generating millions of new jobs
and securing the livelihoods for rural and indigenous peoples.“
(United Nations Environmental Programme Report)
3. Re-Shaping a Global Green Economy
For Social and Environmental Justice
The Green City Clean Industry Program is based on a vertically integrated ‘Seed to
Market’ business model, similar to the petrochemical ‘Well to Wheel’ business
model. To accelerate community beautification, brownfield reclamation, and
sustainable agriculture and forest restoration, we have designed a microlending
based green cooperative project ownership model that will maximize project
replication and local equity sharing to encourage communities worldwide to be a
part of the emerging agro-forestry and waste-to-resource green industries.
The program creates the shortest window possible from project investment to
positive cash flow while meeting the objectives of the UN Green Cities Declaration,
as well as the need for sustainable local green economies that achieve 100%
recycling, food security and energy independence.
4. United Nations
Green Cities Declaration
The United Nations Green Cities Declaration is a collaborative platform and a
call to action for cities across the globe to recognize that a majority of the
world’s population now reside in cities, and that cities consume 75% of the
world’s natural resources creating severe environmental challenges. The
Urban Environmental Accords lay the groundwork for addressing the seven
universal urban environmental issues of energy, waste reduction, urban
design, urban nature, transportation, environmental health, and water.
5. How can Cities become 'Green Cities'?
Energy – Convert agro-forestry, urban and industrial waste into clean,
reliable and low-cost transportation fuels, electric power, thermal energy
and district heating and cooling networks. Convert all coal burning plants
into multi-product clean coal gasification facilities with CO2 capture and
utilization technologies to achieve zero emissions.
Waste Reduction – End the era of landfilling waste by mandating 100%
recycling into green fuels, power and products. Integrating recycling with
gasification based power, fuel and drinking water production systems can
convert waste into usable resources for communities.
Urban Design – Convert recyclable metal, glass, wood, concrete and
plastics into building products that improve the appearance and
functionality of towns and cities. Integrate all power, gas, water, sewage,
fiber optic, and distributed heating and cooling utility networks into
bundled underground pipelines to reduce installation and maintenance
costs, enhance community aesthetics, improve safety, and avoid power
and utility outages caused by fires, storms and severe winter weather. No
unsightly wires or pipes should be visible in modern urban design.
Urban Nature – Creating an urban forest and garden environment with
extensive parks and open space provides a connection to nature for city
residents and provides additional green waste for conversion into green
fuels, power and products. Cities should have 25% to 40% green space.
6. Transportation – Providing carbon neutral, non-toxic and ultra-clean
transportation fuels for automotive, marine and aviation fleets helps ensure
clean air, land and water for communities. By converting waste streams into
revenue streams, cities can then invest in new infrastructure for plug-in
electric hybrid fleets and next generation mass transportation systems.
Environmental Health - The key objectives of eliminating landfills,
brownfields, coal power plant emissions, and sewage and industrial waste
discharges to waterways is to improve the environmental health of our cities,
and to attain the highest possible level of health for the people of our
communities. Our primary goal is to stop infectious disease caused by poor
waste management. CO2 extraction systems will be applied to the production
of environmental medicines, nutraceuticals, food purification and the
monitoring of local ecosystems to identify possible environmental toxins.
Water – Our planet's surface area is 70% water, yet millions of people are
dying every year from a lack of access to drinking water. We should be able
to live and travel in any community and know that we can enjoy pure and
safe drinking water of the highest quality. Gasification systems produce
significant waste heat that can be used to provide safe and reliable drinking
water for community residents. Many areas in Africa, America, Asia, Europe
and the Middle East that experience persistent water scarcity can now use
solar powered gasification desalination systems to change ocean water into
drinking and irrigation water for distribution through pipeline networks to arid
and drought prone regions.
Integrated biorefinery and urban agro-forestry programs enable
cities and industries to achieve nearly 100% recycling of municipal
and industrial waste into green fuels, power and products.
7. A Sustainable Economic Model for Financing
Green Cities and Clean Industry
Cities and industries have an urgent
need for capital to create employment
opportunities and to address the critical
environmental issues of energy, waste
reduction, urban design, urban nature,
transportation, environmental health
and water quality.
Making community based investments in
sustainable agro-forestry, recycling and
integrated biorefineries provides reliable
long-term income streams to project
investors from cities and creditworthy
industrial companies that purchase
green fuels, power and products.
8. 'Seed to Market'
Cooperative Microlending
The Paradise Green City Foundation has created a next-generation 'Seed to Market'
cooperative based microlending business model that has the power to aggregate the
human, technical and capital resources necessary to end the era of landfilling waste,
deforestation and dependence on fossil fuels, while creating prosperity for the world's
most underprivileged tribal groups, farmers and communities.
Green Cooperative members now have a unique opportunity to share in the project
ownership and profits generated by state-of-the-art sustainable agro-forestry,
recycling and integrated biorefineries, and to contribute to re-shaping a post crisis
global green economy based on the principles of social and environmental justice.
The Paradise Green City Foundation and The Global Green Cooperative will
collaborate with the United Nations Environmental Programme, the World Bank,
government agencies, NGO's, foundations, and local community groups to maximize
green industry employment opportunities, job training programs, microlending,
affordable housing, water treatment systems, access to medical treatment centers,
and agro-forestry, earth sciences and green technology education programs.
9. Project Funding Criteria
Adopt the UN Green Cities Declaration for the Community Masterplan
Large-Scale Wasteland Commitment for Sustainable Agro-Forestry
Integrated Biorefinery and Agro-Forestry Site Control Agreements
Commercially Proven Systems with Performance Guarantees
Performance Bonding for EPC and O&M Contractors
Government Project Approvals for Permitting and Licenses
30 Year Waste and Biomass Feedstock Supply Agreement
30 Year Off-take Energy, Fuel and Product Purchase Agreements
10. Project Ownership &
Equity Sharing Structure
The project company ownership structure is designed to ensure a
substantial portion of profits and economic benefits remain within
the local economy and are shared in the most equitable manner
with our local partners.
20% Green City Clean Industry Fund
20% Government/City Municipal Partners
20% Green Cooperative Members
20% Local Project Partners
20% Paradise Renewables Inc.
Moringa Oleifera Plantation, Senegal
1 Million Trees per Hectare
11. Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels,
Deforestation and Landfills will
Create a Sustainable Planet
Global Fossil Fuel Use and GHG Emissions Annually
Crude Oil 4.1 Billion MT
Natural Gas 2.3 Billion MT
Coal 6.2 Billion MT
Total Fuels 12.6 Billion MT = 8.3 Billion MT C02
(CO2 Released to the Atmosphere)
Global Clean Fuel Use and Afforestation to Reduce GHG Emissions Annually
Waste-to-Fuel 5.5 Billion MT (50% of Crude Oil Energy Value on Average)
Clean Coal 6.2 Billion MT (CO2 Capture and CO2 Storage)
Agro-Forestry 4.0 Billion MT (200 Million Hectares of New Forests)
Total Clean Fuels 15.7 Billion MT = 10.3 Billion MT C02
(18.6 Billion MT Net Reduction
to Atmospheric CO2 Emissions)
To achieve a net reduction in global CO2 emissions, green
cities, clean industries and rapid afforestation programs
require the collaborative effort of government leaders,
NGO's, and the global investment banking community.
12. Projects in Development
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America Europe Africa Middle East Asia
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Bolivia ●
Austria ●
Ghana ●
Egypt ●
China
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Brazil ●
Bulgaria ●
Madagascar ●
Iraq ●
India
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Panama ●
Germany ●
Namibia ●
KSA ●
Indonesia
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Peru ●
Italy ●
Senegal ●
Lebanon ●
Malaysia
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Mexico ●
Poland ●
South-Africa ●
Palestine ●
Mongolia
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USA ●
Romania ●
Sudan ●
Qatar ●
Philippines
13. Strategically Integrating
Agro-Forestry, Recycling and Biorefineries
for Sustainable Economic Growth
Single Stream Recycling
Biomass, Waste & Coal Gasification
Gas-to-Liquid Fuels & Chemicals
CO2 Capture & Utilization
Oleochemical Production
Solar/Waste Heat Desalination
Wastewater Treatment
14. Green Fuels, Energy & Products
Closed Loop Gasification with Carbon Capture and
Biochar Production is the Natural Solution for
Sustainable Agro-Forestry, Green Cities and Clean Industries
15. Biochar – Restoring Earth's Natural Carbon Cycle
'Biochar' is the very heart of sustainable agro-forestry, soil fertility and carbon
sequestration. The application of biochar from gasification of biomass waste, and
agro-forestry crops and residues is the natural solution for returning excess carbon
in the atmosphere to our soil. The ancient Amazonian practice of Terra Preta has
proven that biochar stores carbon in the soil for hundreds of years, providing the
key to restoring global ecosystems and biodiversity by balancing carbon, nutrient
and hydrological cycles.
The success of sustainable agro-forestry worldwide will require the implementation
of the most advanced propagation, cultivation, and out-planting equipment and
harvesting methods. Forest restoration, community beautification, and wildfire
prevention programs must involve the wide-scale conversion of depleted soil and
barren wasteland into fertile soil that can support the food, energy and resource
requirements of communities.
With Biochar Origin of Biochar – Terra Preta, Amazonas Without Biochar
16. Optimizing Growth with State-of-the-Art
Solar Powered Glasshouse Nursery Facilities
CO2 charged solar and biomass powered glasshouse nurseries will propagate
native and endangered plant species, as well as the fastest growing, non-invasive
trees and plants that offer high-value foods and botanical extracts. Tissue culture
propagation is the fastest and lowest cost method for rapidly establishing large-
scale agro-forestry plantations from elite plants. The most advanced glasshouse
systems can achieve yields of up to 17x that of field grown crops and will include:
Tissue Culture Propagation Systems
Ultra-Low Water-use Aeroponic Growing Systems
Glasshouse Aquaculture for Multi-Product Algae Cultivation
CO2 Greenhouse Fertilization and Natural Growth Stimulators
Pharmaceutical, Cosmeceutical and Nutraceutical CO2 Extraction
17. CO2 Botanical Extraction Systems
CO2 supercritical fluid extraction is a breakthrough process for producing high value, contaminant
free botanical extracts for use in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and superfood
industries. Under high pressure and low temperature beverage grade CO2 can selectively extract
high-value medicines, nutrients, essential oils, aromas and flavorings that do not decompose salts,
sugars, amino acids, peptides, aromas or other delicate nutritional compounds in plant materials.
CO2 extraction is the most logical solution for algae oil extraction, as it can recover 100% of the
oil, while leaving all other valuable nutrients and protein for sale to the food, nutrient and
pharmaceutical industries.
CO2 can also be used to purify food and beverage products by removing environmental toxins,
heavy metals, bad fats and cholesterol.
CO2 can also provide a valuable environmental monitoring tool to help communities and industries
to identify the types of environmental toxins that are being absorbed by plant and animal species
within the local ecosystem.
18. CO2 Extraction System Schematic
RAW MATERIAL CONDENSATION
SEPARATION
CO2 STORAGE
ESSENTIAL OIL
EXTRACTION
FIRST FRACTION
19. 100% Closed-Loop
Single-Stream Recycling Programs
Single-stream recycling programs eliminate the need for residents and
businesses to separate recyclables from waste by allowing the use of a single
container for placing all recyclables and waste materials together.
Single-stream recycling facilities automatically sort and separate all community
waste resources without any human hands touching the waste. Recyclable
metals, glass, wood, concrete and plastics can be re-manufactured into building
and consumer products, while organic waste fraction is converted into high-
value green fuel, power and products.
Residual ash from the gasification of carbon based waste is used for producing
building blocks and non-toxic organic fertilizers.
20. Why Should You Participate in the
Green City Clean Industry Initiative?
Socially responsible investments can create prosperity where hope has been lost...
1.3 Billion People are Living in Extreme Poverty on Less than $2 per Day.
500 Million Children will be Looking for Work over the Next Decade.
21. People – Planet – Profit
„What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection
of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another“ - Ghandi -
Contact: Tim Bybee, Managing Director
Paradise Green City Foundation
Phone +43 676 727 3635
tbybee@paradisegreencity.org
www.paradisegreencity.org