Water Design water flows to conserve resources and reduce pollution through strategies similar to those described for energy and materials. These include recycling or reuse of materials and consideration of lifecycle environmental implications of materials and technologies. The first pioneers who are developing eco-industrial parks are applying previously tested concepts and practices in an innovative whole system. You can find the separate components of the EIP vision working effectively in industry today. The real innovation in creating eco-industrial parks is bringing such ideas together in a whole system.
Indigo publications provide more detail on the planning of eco-industrial parks.
Indigo services include strategic planning, EIP strategic reviews , and workshops for communities and developers considering eco-industrial parks. Indigo Development collaborated with Berkeley resource recovery pioneer, Urban Ore, to envision an eco-industrial park anchored by a cluster of resource recovery companies that could utilize streams of discards from home, industry, government, and farm sources. See the resulting paper . The Oakland-based Economic Development Alliance for Business is studying the feasibility of implementing this vision.