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CURRENT ITDC PROJECTS
Projects are at the heart of the ITDC experience.
Projects are initially identified by the ITDC principals or its Board. The Directors and the ITDC Board,
take advantage of their diverse backgrounds to anticipate and identify projects that showcase
regional strengths in Arid Lands Livability (a multi-disciplined approach that includes ecological, plant,
and agricultural sciences along with materials, chemicals, electronics, and optical sciences),
Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Economic Development.
Then the projects are evaluated by interns in conjunction with ITDC principals and the respective
technology experts resident at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and within the
local entrepreneurial community. The interns bring the latest ideas and concepts from top graduate
schools to bear along with the energy, enthusiasm, and the intellectual curiosity needed to make a
project evaluation successful.
ITDC identifies choice public/private/educational projects.
• Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) Strategic Plan
The purpose of the CEAC Development Project is to improve state, national, and international visibility
of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, to commercialize the technology, and to speed
the diffusion of green house technology to farmers in Arizona and to use the technology as a
platform in developing and newly industrializing countries to create sustainable economic
development. To that end the following projects are also currently being fulfilled:
• GROLive
GROLive was formed by ITDC to provide training and consulting in greenhouse technology. By utilizing
in-house management and financial capabilities and contracting with CEAC of the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona and others for technical expertise, GROLive
responded to a request from Syngenta Seeds to train a class on the latest relevant developments in
the industry. In its first initiative, GROLive hosted over 40 growers and seed sales people from
Mexico, Guatemala, Idaho, Arizona, and California. The response was positive, and we hope to
conduct more classes in the future.
• Sonora Transplant LLC
Sonora Transplants is ITDC'S first spin project to see venture funding. The company is a propagator of
grafted transplants for large greenhouse tomato growers, and trials with Eurofresh Farms, Inc. (annual
sales: $180 million) have commenced on August 16, 2009. If the trials exceed EuroFresh Farm's
expectations, the start up venture is expected to earn an order and become profitable in the first
year.
Sonora Translant LLC won a Science Foundation Arizona grant with the Bio-Design Institute of ASU
and the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center of the University of Arizona to use tomato as
recombinant gene factories to produce plant-made pharmaceuticals. This will help resolve many of
the disease and pest problems in the greenhouse using transgenics in the near term. In the long-
term, this technology will make it more economical and efficient to grow pharmaceuticals in plants
rather than in animals as is done today.
• Arid Lands Sustainable Bio-Energy Institute
ITDC joined the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to create a commercially viable and
responsible Bio-Energy economy for southern Arizona and other Arid, Semi-Arid and soon to be desert
environments. What makes the institute unique is the multidiscipline, cross-professional culture, its
emphasis on Arid Lands, and its objective to commercialize technology. The Co-Executive Directors
are Don Slack Ph.D., University of Arizona, Professor in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, and
Ron Richman Ph.D., ITDC, Chief Operating Officer. The website is up (www.cals.arizona.
edu/bioenergy), we have generated over $500,000 in the first six months of operation in grants and in-
kind support. Now we are contacting local and regional corporations to become research sponsors
and members.
• CarbonTech Tucson LLC
The mission of CarbonTech Tucson LLC is to provide renewable fuel to biomass power plants.
Currently, WRE Rio Rico 17.5 LLC is a finalist in the Tucson Electric Power RFP for renewable energy
power generation and will buy fuel from CarbonTech Tucson LLC if the deal goes through.
WRE Rio Rico 17.5 has contracted Next Move LLC, a for profit sister company of ITDC to raise the
money if Tucson Electric Power Company and the Arizona Corporation Commission decide to go ahead.
ITDC's role has been to work as a consultant to package the deal so that it is understandable to
investors.
Projects are at the heart of the ITDC experience.
Projects are initially identified by the ITDC principals or its Board. The Directors and the ITDC Board,
take advantage of their diverse backgrounds to anticipate and identify projects that showcase
regional strengths in Arid Lands Livability (a multi-disciplined approach that includes ecological, plant,
and agricultural sciences along with materials, chemicals, electronics, and optical sciences),
Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Economic Development.
Then the projects are evaluated by interns in conjunction with ITDC principals and the respective
technology experts resident at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and within the
local entrepreneurial community. The interns bring the latest ideas and concepts from top graduate
schools to bear along with the energy, enthusiasm, and the intellectual curiosity needed to make a
project evaluation successful.
ITDC identifies choice public/private/educational projects.
• Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) Strategic Plan
The purpose of the CEAC Development Project is to improve state, national, and international visibility
of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, to commercialize the technology, and to speed
the diffusion of green house technology to farmers in Arizona and to use the technology as a
platform in developing and newly industrializing countries to create sustainable economic
development. To that end the following projects are also currently being fulfilled:
• GROLive
GROLive was formed by ITDC to provide training and consulting in greenhouse technology. By utilizing
in-house management and financial capabilities and contracting with CEAC of the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona and others for technical expertise, GROLive
responded to a request from Syngenta Seeds to train a class on the latest relevant developments in
the industry. In its first initiative, GROLive hosted over 40 growers and seed sales people from
Mexico, Guatemala, Idaho, Arizona, and California. The response was positive, and we hope to
conduct more classes in the future.
• Sonora Transplant LLC
Sonora Transplants is ITDC'S first spin project to see venture funding. The company is a propagator of
grafted transplants for large greenhouse tomato growers, and trials with Eurofresh Farms, Inc. (annual
sales: $180 million) have commenced on August 16, 2009. If the trials exceed EuroFresh Farm's
expectations, the start up venture is expected to earn an order and become profitable in the first
year.
Sonora Translant LLC won a Science Foundation Arizona grant with the Bio-Design Institute of ASU
and the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center of the University of Arizona to use tomato as
recombinant gene factories to produce plant-made pharmaceuticals. This will help resolve many of
the disease and pest problems in the greenhouse using transgenics in the near term. In the long-
term, this technology will make it more economical and efficient to grow pharmaceuticals in plants
rather than in animals as is done today.
• Arid Lands Sustainable Bio-Energy Institute
ITDC joined the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to create a commercially viable and
responsible Bio-Energy economy for southern Arizona and other Arid, Semi-Arid and soon to be desert
environments. What makes the institute unique is the multidiscipline, cross-professional culture, its
emphasis on Arid Lands, and its objective to commercialize technology. The Co-Executive Directors
are Don Slack Ph.D., University of Arizona, Professor in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, and
Ron Richman Ph.D., ITDC, Chief Operating Officer. The website is up (www.cals.arizona.
edu/bioenergy), we have generated over $500,000 in the first six months of operation in grants and in-
kind support. Now we are contacting local and regional corporations to become research sponsors
and members.
• CarbonTech Tucson LLC
The mission of CarbonTech Tucson LLC is to provide renewable fuel to biomass power plants.
Currently, WRE Rio Rico 17.5 LLC is a finalist in the Tucson Electric Power RFP for renewable energy
power generation and will buy fuel from CarbonTech Tucson LLC if the deal goes through.
WRE Rio Rico 17.5 has contracted Next Move LLC, a for profit sister company of ITDC to raise the
money if Tucson Electric Power Company and the Arizona Corporation Commission decide to go ahead.
ITDC's role has been to work as a consultant to package the deal so that it is understandable to
investors.
ITDC assigns interns to work in
interdisciplinary, cross-professional
teams, and monitors their progress
closely.
interdisciplinary, cross-professional
teams, and monitors their progress
closely.
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