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If you need
support for company or community specific
applications of industrial ecology or for development of eco-industrial
parks, Indigo offers client services including sustainable
community planning; eco-industrial park
planning, sustainable
business strategic planning; and briefings
or
workshops on a variety of IE themes.
Strategic
Planning
Indigo offers
strategic planning with a whole systems
orientation. Guided by the principles of industrial ecology, we view
the strategic needs of companies and communities in the context of
their natural environment. We support planning processes that integrate
consideration of economic, environmental, technical, and organizational
needs and constraints. As an aspect of strategic planning, we support
the creation of credible visions and scenarios
for a future that works for the organization and the full range of its
stakeholders. These visions enable clients to explore the full
implications of applying industrial ecology. They illustrate the value
of whole systems and ecologically based design.
We also help
environmental and management consulting firms make
strategic environmental management practice more systemic through use
of industrial ecology concepts and tools.
Executive Briefings, Workshops and
Presentations
Indigo offers
briefings on industrial ecology and its
implications for companies, public agencies, and communities. We prefer
to tailor these sessions to the needs of the client. We design each
briefing to deliver value that can be put to work immediately.
Indigo staff are
available for lectures, conference
presentations, and discussions on a number of themes, including:
- Overview of the field of industrial ecology
and the benefits
it offers to manufacturing and service industries and public operations.
- A vision of
sustainable
development processes based on industrial ecology.
- Business opportunities opened by an
industrial ecology
approach.
- Sustainable communities and industrial
ecology.
- The Sustainable NewTown concept for
integration of community
design.
- The requirements for a sustainable supply
of food and fiber.
- Framing the industrial ecology research
agenda: process and
content.
For more
details about Indigo's executive briefings, contact us.
Community
Development Workshops and
Presentations
The emerging
field of industrial ecology offers communities means
for ending the apparent conflict between economic and environmental
needs. Indigo's workshops explore economic development and urban
planning approaches that can
- Open new local business and job development
opportunities;
- Revitalize existing industries;
- Lower local pollution and use of resources;
- Improve the efficiency of municipal
infrastructure systems;
- Restore the viability of local ecosystems.
These
workshops are customized to the needs and resources of your
community. We determine the specific content to be covered through
consultation with city leaders and a survey of current economic
development and planning documents.
Options for
community workshop content:
- Overview of industrial ecology as a field
of action,
including the concepts of industrial metabolism (analysis of energy and
materials flows), the industrial ecosystem and the eco-industrial park;
- Introduction to the process for forming an
integrated community
strategic plan for reducing the total waste stream and increasing
efficiency of resource use (residential, commercial, public, and
industrial); (Through collaboration among economic development, public
works and environmental protection agencies);
- Development of an effective local
industrial resource
exchange providing markets for now wasted materials and energy;
- Extending the value of investments in
municipal
infrastructure (landfills, energy, water and waste water systems);
- Business opportunities opened by
industrial ecology and their
implications for economic development;
- Using the eco-industrial park concept in
the design of new
industrial parks or the rehabilitation of brownfield sites;
- Integrating town and rural development
around principles of sustainable agriculture.
- Mobilizing educational and consulting
resources to help the
community's business and government operations increase efficiency of
energy and materials use;
- Streamlining of environmental permitting
and regulatory
processes to support business compliance and competitiveness.
We also offer
workshops focused on eco-industrial
park development and enhancement
of environmental performance of
existing industrial parks.
We integrate our
diverse capabilities to support communities and
developers in creating:
- Strategies for the development and
financing of
eco-industrial parks;
- Eco-industrial park designs, development
plans, and
management structures;
- Strategies to recruit new companies and
incubate local
businesses;
- Comprehensive plans for turning community
wastes into
profitable businesses, jobs, and products;
- Local multi-industry initiatives in
pollution prevention,
water and energy efficiency; and
- By-product exchange networks for recycling,
and reduction of
environmental hazards.
Click here for more information on our
strategic reviews of eco-industrial park projects that are in process, especially
if your process is stuck.
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