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About the Project
A positive, job-creating agenda that protects human health and the environment
The goal of the Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy project is to create an identity for Massachusetts that makes it an international magnet for the innovation and adoption of technologies that minimize harms and help restore our health and environment.
The Lowell Center conducted interviews with Advisory Committee members and held roundtable discussions with key experts. The project team then identified five clean tech areas where Massachusetts already has significant strengths and leadership potential--safer alternatives to toxic chemicals green buildings, emerging materials, clean energy, and materials reuse.
In December 2007, the project team published initial recommendations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Clean Tech: An Agenda for a Healthy Economy report (pdf file).
Boston Globe Op-Ed, October 6, 2008, A Place for Clean Technology
From September through December, 2008, the Clean Tech Initiative held three roundtables in different parts of the state that brought together representatives from environmental groups, businesses, government, academia, and labor to discuss issues related to the growth of clean technologies in their regions. The goals of the roundtables were to promote the importance of clean tech to the environment and economy; gain information to inform key policy makers, businesses and activists; and create partnerships that will ultimately help move the clean tech economy forward. These meetings showed there are some similarities among the regions, as well as key differences. For a summary of the meetings and attendees, click the links below
Western Massachusetts meeting notes
Western Massachusetts attendees
Merrimack Valley meeting notes
Merrimack Valley attendees
495/Metrowest Corridor meeting notes
495/Metrowest Corridor attendees
Advisory Committee
Steve Andrade, Program Manager, Battelle Technology Partnership Practice
Barbra Batshalom, Executive Director, Green Roundtable
Michael Best, Co-Director, Center for Industrial Competitiveness, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tom Burton, Chair, Energy and Clean Tech. Practice Group, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Tom Chmura, Vice President for Economic Development, University of Massachusetts Office of the President
Ed Collins, International Representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts AFL/CIO
Nick d’Arbeloff, Co-Director, New England Clean Energy Council
Paul Epstein, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard University
Kathleen J. Freeman, Partner, Bowditch and Dewey
Michael Goodman, Director, Economic and Policy Research, University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute
Jill Griffin, Assistant Director of Economic Initiatives, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Bill Guenther, President, Mass Insight Corporation
Berl Hartman, New England Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs
Jack Healy, Director, Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership; CEO, Manufacturing Advancement Center
James Hoyte, Assistant to the President and Associate Vice President, Harvard University
Lee Ketelsen, New England Regional Director, Clean Water Action
Judith Kurland, Chief of Staff to the Mayor, City of Boston
David Levy, Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston
Chuck McDermott, General Partner, RockPort Capital Partners
Daniel K. Moon, Executive Director, Environmental Business Council
Lisa Petraglia, Director of Economic Research, Economic Development Research Group
Senator Pam Resor, Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Andrea Silbert, President, Eos Foundation
Representative Frank Smizik, Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hemant Taneja, Principal, General Catalyst Partners
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