Buffalo Forge Eco-Industrial Park
Green Gold is planning to develop an Eco-Industrial Park (EIP). The concept of an Eco-Industrial Park was first formalized in 1992-93 by Indigo Development, a team of people from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and Cornell University's Work and Environment Initiative. An Eco-Industrial Park has been broadly defined as:

"A network of firms and organizations working together to improve their environmental and economic performance. Participating businesses work together under covenants to function in a highly sustainable manner. The ideal is to assemble a mix of tenants that can use each other's residuals and efficiently share resources (information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural habitat)."

There are many EIP projects in the works, including: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Londenberry, New Hampshire; Burnside, Nova Scotia; Cape Charles, Virginia; and Burlington, Vermont. The pioneering example is in Kalundborg, Denmark, where a cluster of companies has inspired others to replicate its model referred to as "industrial symbiosis".

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