green actions carpooling recycling energy retrofits windows insulation boilers community garden geothermal wind research

2. about energy • green actions • carpooling • recycling • energy retrofits • windows • insulation • boilers • community garden • geothermal • wind research • biomass • rural transit • campus redesign  cattails • replication in other institutions • Biomass Brokerage

3. an outgrowth of Providence’s business program • mandate: • to be useful to the business community BullerCentre.com • a major area of focus • initiatives that are both green and profitable • one of these is BiomassBrokerage.com

4. A Brokerage? • examples • Manitoba Buy & Sell • kijiji • eBay • Manitoba Hay Registry • Pellet Zone • Stick Man

5. A Brokerage Creates a Market • links all participants together • reduces search cost & effort • finding customers • finding suppliers • finding shippers, storers, equipment, expertise, advice, examples... • reduces transaction costs • standardizes contracts & other arrangements

6. A Brokerage Creates a Market • a brokerage is essential to the development of a biomass industry

7. A Brokerage Creates a Market • biomass? • residues • forestry • agriculture • industry • sewage • “organic” “garbage”

8. A Brokerage Creates a Market source form ship store consume return straw food production residue loose shed cattails bale stoker truck barn willow cube ash stove forestry residue silo rail pelletize generator urban forest prunings elevator char wood production residue

9. A Brokerage Creates a Market • a biomass brokerage • so far • researched other brokerages • created offline prototype • gathered info on potential participants • put it online • BiomassBrokerage.com • starting to get listings

24. Next Steps • meet each potential producer • get fuller inventory of • potential consumers • businesses capable of • system design, manufacture, installation & service • storage • secure start-up funding

27. Storage? • Carey, MB

30. bonus slide simplified schematic of potential effects of cattail harvesting, and their integration into a larger system of processes and effects

31. “artificial” fertilizers sewage farms gardens lawns Phosphorus & Nitrogen lake cut cattails grow cattails dry cattails process ash compost densify cattails CO2 transport ash burn cubes transport cubes municipalities agri-business commercial kitchens natural gas HEAT fossil CO2 coal