Innovation Based Economic Development
Green-G Network connects communities and regions with resources (expertise, research and financing) to develop circular economic development projects in distressed census tracts.
Green-G Network Development Projects will be anchored by locally owned businesses that:
- provide real living wage incomes for all employees;
- will not be dependent upon tax breaks or other traditionally used economic development incentives;
- utilize locally available assets and/or innovations crucial to the operation of the business.
Green-G Network was formed as a support network for communities and regions seeking to “grow their economies from within” instead of relying on recruiting and relocating businesses.
THE PLAYBOOK FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC RESTORATION
- Fund Catalytic LOCAL Development Projects First
- Develop a FINANCIAL STACK for Unfunded Infrastructure Projects
- Make the Region Investable for Traditional Capital
- Projects Should Balance the Needs of People & Planet
The RESTORE Process
Green-G Network created REIZE – Implementing the RESTORE PROCESS to demonstrate how ASSET BASED DEVELOPMENT can restore economic opportunity in distressed census tracts using local innovations.
NM-REIZE was formed as a collaboration between Green-G Network and three innovators after using the RESTORETM process to demonstrate how community engagement can identify scalable technologies to restore economic opportunities for the region:
- Solving New Mexico Problems First
- Using New Mexico Assets
- Deploying New Mexico Innovations
- Coordinating New Mexico Businesses
- With Leadership from New Mexico Communities
- Learn More… Regional-Regeneration.com
Posts in this section will give insights into our philosophy.
- Bringing the Main Street Approach to Industrial DevelopmentThree PILOT towns were selected in 1977 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to test a premise: Historic Preservation is Economic Development. After demonstrating success, the National Main Street Center was established in 1980 to formalize the teaching process,Continue reading “Bringing the Main Street Approach to Industrial Development”
- Building Resilient Supply ChainsFor all that the American economy has going for it, supply chains are at risk from foreign dependency. Throughout history, countries that have had the ability to explore the world have sought out cheap land, cheap labor, new sources ofContinue reading “Building Resilient Supply Chains”
- “Save the Clock Tower”In the classic movie, “Back to the Future”, Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer are sitting on a bench in the town square of Mill Valley discussing how they were going to go on a weekend trip after Marty’s dadContinue reading ““Save the Clock Tower””