Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 548

Country scale: USA

State scale: TEXAS

City scale: AUSTIN

Environment Texas

Heavy automobile use

American Water Works Assoc.
Desert Mountain TX Chapter

2

1

Sewage treatment plants

Sustainable agriculture
Research and education

3

Non-local foods

CMPBS
AUSTIN,TEXAS
USA

Sustainable energy and economic
Development coalition

4

6

5

Traditional electric companies

Straw Bale Association
of Texas

Non-renewable material use

CMPBS
AUSTIN,TEXAS
USA

ProtoPartner
Bank of lifecycle technologies Global Protopartners

1. CMPBS — Center for Maximum Potential Potential Building Systems, USA
2. CENESTA — Center for Sustainable Development, Iran
3. TERI —Tata Research Institute, India

Educat ional partners
Air resource partners
Water resource partners
Food resource partners
Energy resource partners
Materials resource partners

4. Desert Knowledge Australia, Australia
5. Accion, Chile
6. EASD — Empowerment for African Sustainable Development, South Africa

FIGURE 31.9
ProtoPartners of El Paso/Juarez are NGOs, research organizations, and universities across the world that share statistically similar environmental conditions in one
of the four ProtoMetric categories. They can be correlated to concerns about water, desertiication, access to food, and air quality.