Each component of the Califia Ecocity will be designed to operate as a business and to replicated as such when done expertly, with the relevant communities in other regions around the world:

1. Some natural buildings as well as high-tech, and orientation to nature at many levels,

2. Renewable energy, 'living machines', food growing, clustering and organizing for walkability, public exercise and entertainment places.

3. Renewable industry incubators, education for sustainability, cooperative power production (or PG&E finances the development as MG said), and teaching and publicizing and doing business in alternative technologies that are highly disruptive to the economic status quo -- and therefore highly profitable.

4. Create health care knowledgebases, starting with the traditional healing systems that the WHO says are the best bet for the health of the world -- and make them dynamic with large scale outcomes research supported by wholesale use of computer-based patient records, comparing traditional approaches with western technological medicine for each health condition and life pattern.

It is very good ecology to have assembly and non-chemical R&D, and companies committed to sustainable economic development, generating real wealth and reducing trips to the SF business district. The ferry terminal could support unloading components and loading wind turbines for shipment abroad, for example. The next generation of the Internet could be developed on the island, to bridge the digital divide around the world. Artists and dancers and musicians should be able to have collective live-work space to create a new, revitalized, participative culture, that can be shared globally via the Internet. Etc.

This all makes TI a real version of Califia -- and far more self-sustainable, hence much more independent culturally.