1. Berks
Country Eco-Industrial Park
Berks County, PA
A state/private project converting landfill into energy system for
manufacturing.
2. Brownsville
Eco-Industrial Park
Brownsville, Texas
Cross-border multi-firm resource-sharing strategy.
3. Burnside
Eco-Industrial Park
Nova Scotia, Canada
Eco-Efficiency Center nonprofit run in coordination with Dalhouise
University to green the park and serve as business coordinator both within
park and regionally.
4. Cabazon
Resource Recovery Park
Indio, California
An EIP set up by a Native American tribe currently running a biomass
electricity generation plant and a recycling-manufacturing company making
products of used tires.
5. Civano
Industrial Eco Park
Tucson, Arizona
Business center for the development of sustainable technology.
6. Coffee Creek Center
Chesterton, IN
A residential, office, and retail model supporting green tech and consulting
groups.
7. East Shore
Eco-Industrial Park
Oakland, California
Group of four alternative waste processing companies operating under
environmental schemata, with expansion plans under way.
See also East Shore EIP power
point presentation.
8. Fairfield Eco-Industrial
Park
Baltimore, Maryland
Boasts an impressive list of major US and international corporations
adhering to strict eco-guidelines in city-created “empowerment zone”.
9. Franklin
County Eco-Industrial Park
Youngsville, North Carolina
Eco-design solar-powered building in which all tenants sell or service
technology or products involving alternate energy, recycling, or sustainable
building.
10. The Green Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cluster of four programs including re-use center to redistribute usable
materials to public, a community gardening project, non-profit green technology
advocacy group, and an eco-enterprise building housing companies, non-profits,
and listed programs.
11. Plattsburgh
Eco-Industrial Park
Plattsburgh, New York
Research, recreational, industrial, and commercial facilities on abandoned
air force base near Canadian border.
12. Port of Cape Charles Sustainable
Technologies Industrial Park
Eastville, Virginia
HUB Zone, foreign trade zone, and Virginia Enterprise Zone with specific
incentives for photovoltaic producers, clean fuel vehicle manufacture,
and recycled material producers.
13. Raymond
Green Eco-Industrial Park
Raymond, Washington
Located within a sustainably harvested forest, works with local resources
and processes waste streams on site.
14. Riverside
Eco- Park
Burlington, Vermont
(note: now named Intervale Food Center)
An agro-industrial park using biomass and other cooperative reprocessing
techniques.
15. Skagit
County Environmental Industrial Park
Skagitt County, Washington
Sustainably built recovery center as centerpiece of park which includes
production, community center, sales and marketing center, and environmental
business center.
16. Shady
Side Eco-Business Park
Shady Side, Maryland
Marine-based park with high level of local community participation.
17. Trenton
Eco-Industrial Complex
Trenton, New Jersey
Urban network, not geographically contiguous.
18. The Volunteer Site
Chattanooga, Tennessee
(note: now named Enterprise South Eco-Industrial Park)
Business development center site on underused military facility using
"cluster" approach to target specific industries.
Eco-Industrial Park Resources:
US EPA Guide to Financial Resources for Eco-Industrial Parks
EPA's Designing
Industrial Ecosystems Tool (DIET)
Aids decision makers and planners in identifying optimum combinations
of industrial facilities to site in an eco-industrial park. A scenario-building
tool, the model allows the user to weight his/her priorities for the site
and to optimize for job creation, profitability or environmental benefits.
Indigo Development
'Environmental think-tank' that has pioneered, advocated, and replicated
the concept of EIPs. Help plan community specific EIPs.
http://www.indigodev.com/
Smart
Growth Case Studies
Surveys successes and failures of eco-industrial projects.
Cape
Charles Eco-Industrial Workshop Proceedings
Includes detailed descriptions of all projects
Department
of Energy Resources
See below for list of references.
On-line Articles and Publications available on DOE website:
"Eco-Industrial Parks: A Case Study and Analyses of Economic, Environmental, Technical, and Regulatory Issues" (Executive Summary in .pdf )
"Fieldbook for the Development of Eco-Industrial Parks" (Executive Summary in .pdf)
"The Industrial Ecosystem Development Project Report" (.pdf)
Addresses lessons learned and suggestions for others interested in
undertaking industrial ecosystem development in their communities in the
fourth section.
"Guide to Financial Resources for EIP Development"
"Industrial Ecology in Motion (3): Eco-Industrial Parks"
"Making Industrial Parks Sustainable"
"Eco-Industrial Parks: One Strategy for Sustainable Growth"
Provides an overview of Eco-industrial Parks (EIPs).
"Eco-Industrial Parks Offer Sustainable Base Redevelopment"
Outlines the opportunities presented by EIP models for military base
conversion.
"Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning"
Compares private and public mechanisms in the development of industrial
loops and illustrates how regulation of hazardous waste in the United States
currently thwarts such industrial symbiosis. The essay concludes by arguing
that greater reliance on market forces would be the most effective way
of replicating the Danish experience at Kalundborg, the world’s first Eco-Industrial
Park.
Publications
Eco-Industrial Parks: A Case Study and Analysis of Economic, Environmental,
Technical, and Regulatory Issues, Research Triangle Institute, 1996.
A report exploring the economic and environmental feasibility of eco-industrial
parks by constructing a simulation of a prototype in Brownsville, Texas.
Available from: Research Triangle Institute, attn: RTI project # 6050,
P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; phone (919) 541-5800;
Fax (919) 541-6683
Eco-Industrial Parks: A Handbook for Local Development Teams, RPP
International, 1998.
"Considers many strategies for community sustainable development as
a context for industrial park development or renewal. It ranges from the
soft infrastructure of policy, finance economic development, and education
to the specific technical, recruitment, and management considerations in
industrial park design."
Fieldbook for the Development of Eco-Industrial Parks, Research
Triangle Institute, 1996.
A report providing guidelines for meeting the significant challenges
to eco-industrial park development. Available from: Research Triangle Institute,
attn: RTI project # 6050, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709;
(919) 541-5800; Fax (919) 541-6683
"Industrial Ecosystems: Developing Sustainable Industrial Structures"
Eco-Industrial Parks Offer Sustainable Base Redevelopment
Outlines the opportunities presented by EIP models for military base
conversion.
Compendium of Eco-Industrial Projects
Provides links to over 25 EIP projects in the US and abroad.
Case Studies of 16 Eco-Industrial Parks in the U.S.