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1  Devens Common:

· Hotel, working to become EcoStar Achiever

· Investigating composting, instituting comprehensive in-room hotel recycling program to complement existing efforts, worn linens reused through EcoStar program.

· Roof run-off captured in cistern for irrigation

· All services within ½ mile of all residents in Devens

2  Guild of St Agnes:

· Day care with slots reserved for working mothers

· Receipt of exchange materials for art projects

· Social equity component

3  Transitions:

· Social Equity - home for battered women

· LEED for Homes (Sustainable building design and construction)

· Reduced parking footprint

· Walking distance to local services

4  Daylighting Willow Brook  (Jackson Road):

· Taking brook out of culvert - planned for future

· Wildlife Habitat and water quality improvements

· Green Infrastructure – reconnecting and integrating natural systems into development

5  Francis W. Parker Charter School:

· Reuse of existing building and purchase of “used” building (embodied energy)

· Students developed a “green team”- recycled paper donations, anti-idling campaign

· EcoStar Great Exchange participants, Climate Change Workshop presenters

 

     Shriver Job Corps

· US Department of Labor job training program – social equity

16 Devens Open Space:

· 2600 acres incl. Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge, floodplain of the Nashua River (green infrastructure)

· 500 acres of active recreation fields

· 70 acre Mirror Lake features swimming and fishing

· Trail system – form of green infrastructure – connecting people, nature and development.

· Environmental restoration

11 Waiteco:

· Bubble wrap exchange with Parker Hannifin

· Working to become EcoStar Achiever

· Box reuse

· Waste oil minimization

6  JP Routhier & Sons:

· Tire recycling and reuse for various engineering projects (roadway construction), agriculture (animal mats) and recreation (Playground surfaces).

· Recognized by the US EPA for recycling and education on uses of recycled tires

21 Eglomisé Designs:

· Partnering with other business on - central distribution 

     trucking to keep full loads both coming and going – CT, MA and NY routes

· Donations of imperfect gifts and materials

· Toxic Use Reduction (lead)

· Adaptive building reuse

· Zero Waste

8  Devens Recycling:

· Recycling wood, gypsum, asphalt, concrete

· Material exchange and reuse (chipping wood waste for biomass energy)

· Co-location and by-product exchange opportunities

· Combined heat and power generation

· Multi-Modal access

13 US Army:

· $100mil. training and maint. facility – LEED Silver

· 3 buildings – 280,000 sq.ft on 57 acres

· 600 Soldiers & Marines— 800 military vehicles

· Drinking water well protection – re-designed layout to avoid impacts

· LID incorporated where possible (some soil contamination – restrictions for infiltration)

17 Bristol-Myers Squibb:

· CoreNet Magazine - 2006 #1 economic development deal in the world

· Adopted endangered species, trail maintenance

· Parking up instead of out (env. footprint reduction)

· Corporate Sustainability – triple bottom-line

·  BMS - shared space during construction

· Process water recycling & re-use

· LEED Cert. green buildings

18 Apex Properties:

· Adaptive re-use (green building)

· LID (biofiltation landscape islands, grass-lined swales, rain gardens (planning), phased parking.)

· Connecting into Devens Trail system

· Mt Wachusetts Community College Job Training for BioPharma BMS

· Investigating geothermal

14 Magna-motion:

· Magnetic levitation systems development— trains float over a guideway using basic principles of magnets to replace the old steel wheel and track trains

· Alternative transportation mode - non-fossil fuel-based

· Magnetic field created by the electrified coils in the guideway walls & the track combine to propel train down the track.

15 Red Tail Golf Course:

· International Audubon certified golf course - one of Golf Digest’s top ten new courses for 2003, Best course in New England, 2006

· Future site of LPGA tournament

· Integrated Pest Management Plan reducing water, fertilizer and pesticide use

9  Southern Container: 

· Product take back, deploying roll-offs at their clients facilities to capture waste corrugated for reuse.

· Introduced to EID when we discussed exchange with WEBVAN corrugated from 7 grocery stores

· Shared employee discussions with Horn Packaging for driver and with Parker Hannifin for machinists

· WPI interns-boiler efficiency study

10  Sonoco-Gillette:

· Co-Location— P&G Gillette & Sonoco - connector between buildings. JIT packaging for Gillette distribution center reduces air quality impacts (co-location)

· Shared parking with Kraft.

· Sonoco building heated by process heat from packaging machines

·  Shared security services

23 Image Software Services:

· Material re-use (packaging, cd’s, paper, containers, binder spirals)

· Recycling 90% of paper

· First EcoStar Achiever

· Promotes use of eco-friendly paper to customers

· Business to Business Mentoring and Community Involvement

· Employee profit sharing

22 Rogers Field Landscaping Practices:

· Sandy terrain difficult for grass growth—solution:  Biocompost—decomposed wood chips, yard waste, gelatin and other biosolids that

    absorb and retain water, creating a stress-resistant surface friendly to grass & earthworms but not weeds.

· Saves 2,400,000 gal of water/yr and reduces chemical fertilizer use by $43,000/yr

7  Devens Dept. of Public Works:

· Free recycling for business & residents(3 tons/month)

· HHW Disposal for business & residents (developing)

· Negotiated recycling contract for all businesses

· Shared equipment & vehicle maintenance for Fire, Police, Municipality and offered to neighboring towns

· State of the art wash water recycling unit

· On EcoStar Steering committee

12 Evergreen  Solar:

· Toxic Use Reduction - UMASS TURI

· Reuse breakage as solar garden lights

· Less silicone per watt by half than nearest competitor (string ribbon technology)

· White roof -  solar array on roof – possible solar parking canopies

· LID techniques for storm water

· Shared parking with Media News to reduce impervious surfaces

From: Railway Technical Research Institute

19 American Superconductor:

· Electrical systems & power modules for wind turbines

· Highly efficient underground transmission wires able to carry 574 MW of power within a 4’wide ROW (versus 200-foot above-ground transmission line and all env. Issues associated with these lines)

20 Grant Road future housing:

· LEED ND housing and reuse of Vicksburg Square mixed use compact cluster development

· Energy efficiency, renewable energy, district energy

· Transit ready community (part of TDM)

· Live-work-play community

· Complete streets

· Green infrastructure

- Denotes EcoStar member Business

The idea of industrial symbiosis is that local companies co-operate to achieve greater resource efficiency by reducing resource input costs and waste management costs, and identifying new products.   www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/SustainableDevelopment/7512

"Industrial Symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries and other organizations in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials … together with the shared use of assets, logistics and expertise“    www.nisp.org.uk/what_is.aspx

An eco-industrial park is “…a community of manufacturing and service businesses located together on a common property. Member businesses seek enhanced environmental, economic, and social performance through collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues.”

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“Businesses that achieve LEED certification have reduced environmental impacts, increased energy efficiency, and improved quality of the work environment for their employees.”- EcoStar Standard 11 Green Building Design, Page 53, EcoStar Action Guide.

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