For those interested in the early European approaches to corporate
responsibility there were examples of model communities in many places in
the UK from 1760 onwards. Although these did not address eco-indistrial
principles they were often based on the idea> And, the Owenite movement
tinged, for a period of time, development in
> Eastern Ohio and Wester Pennsylvania. At least one of these sites remains
> as a tourist attraction (name? hey...30+ years ago). A contemporary
> example, with its own faults, may be found in the Mondragon Industrial
> Cooperative System. There is a video/film on the Coop's development(BBC,
> The Mondragon Experiment) and several books. (see excerpts from Adam
> Smith's Mistakes, Kenneth Lux). Mondragon, however, has to my best
> knowledge never been reseached for its eco-orientation. It would be a
> fascinating study, for Mondragon factories sit sde-by-side with public and
> private facilities.
> Bob Hogner
>>
>> From: Lionel Boxer <
lionel.boxer@RMIT.EDU.AU>
>> Date: 2005/12/08 Thu PM 06:25:24 EST
>> To:
ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>> Subject: Robert Owen - New Lanark - 1840s - Re: Implementing Industrial
>> Ecology
>>
>> Dear Reid Kurt, Joe and Anthony
>>
>> Are you familiar with Robert Owen's New Lanark, the industrial
>> revolution era social welfare / ecological industrial park? Owen was a
>> capitalist fabric mill operator, but convinced that social
>> responsibility and econolgical stewardship would be profitable. In his
>> case he was right, but those who tried to replicate his approach
>> invariably failed. Many have refered to his approach as an ideal
>> approach, but he was primarily a capitalist.
>>
>> I toured the extensive museum on the New Lanark, south of Lanark (the
>> birthplace of Braveheart - Wallace McLeod), near Glasgow, Scotland.
>> There are displays of the power generation machinery, the mills, the
>> community space, schools, medical facilities, dormatories, and
>> ecological commitments made by Owen. This was two centuries ago!
>>
>> I have several references to Robert Owenism and the Owenites who
>> followed him in my bibliograph:
http://intergon.net/phd/phdbib.doc
>>
>> Even Taylor (aka Mr scientific management) was influenced by social and
>> ecologial responsiblity; it was his followers who created Taylorism.
>> Also from that era was the interesting influence of Prince Albert on
>> Queen Victoria and the alternating influence of Tory and Wigg prime
>> ministers Disraeli and Gladstone. See discussion of this, Owenism and
>> more grounding of Industrial Ecology in chapt 2:
>>
http://intergon.net/phd/phdch2.doc
>>
>> Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
>> Research Fellow -
lionel.boxer@rmit.edu.au
>> Centre for Management Quality Research
>> Read The Sustainable Way - see
http://intergon.net/tsw
>> Improvement Implementation:
http://intergon.net
>>
>> >>>
reid.lifset@YALE.EDU 09/12/2005 9:41 am >>>
>> Dear Kurt, Joe and Anthony,
>>
>> The question of whether Kalundborg can be
>> replicated and if so how is one of the defining
>> issues in the study of industrial symbiosis --
>> which is what the Kalundborg phenomenon is now
>> called within industrial ecology. There are
>> several papers in the pipeline for the Journal of
>> Industrial Ecology that grapple with this,
>> destined, if all goes well, for an issue scheduled in the coming year.
>>
>> My colleague, Marian Chertow at Yale <
>>
http://www.yale.edu/environment/bios/chertow.html>,
>> has been focusing on this question. See, for example,
>>
>> Chertow, M. R. 1998. The eco-industrial park
>> model reconsidered. Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(3): 8-10.
>>
>> but I know she has other analyses of this question in progress.
>>
>> ~ Reid Lifset
>>
>>
>> At 01:56 PM 12/7/2005, Kurt Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> I don't know of particular evaluations and success rates of these
>> eco-industrial parks. Another researcher who may have a handle is Ray
>> Côté
>> at Dalhousie. I will send you and Anthony his abstract from our October
>> conference in Canada.
>>
>> The comment I heard in a conference presentation was an opinion that
>> Kalundborg was an accident or a natural evolution that may not offer
>> lessons
>> for replication. The Londonderry NH eco-industrial park, as I recall,
>> suffered when one key facility moved away.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> Kurt,
>>
>> In terms of the caveat you mention about transferability and
>> implementation of Eco-Industrial development, I do remember some
>> discussion on this issue. Part of the debate is whether planning,
>> design and replication can actually occur, or whether it is just a bit
>> of luck that they occur and let them evolve into themselves.
>>
>> How many attempts, 'successes', and failures have there been? I am not
>> sure of the statistics on this matter. I remember there was a federally
>> (U.S.) funded program in the mid-1990's for developing a series of
>> demonstration sites. I wonder what the success rate of these sites
>> were?
>>
>> A partial listing can be found at:
>>
http://www.smartgrowth.org/library/eco_ind_case_intro.html
>>
>> I have not seen much discussion about them in recent years.
>> Maybe Reid Lifset has more information about this issue?
>>
>> -Joe S.
>>
>> ==============================================
>> Joseph Sarkis
>> Professor of Operations and Environmental Management
>> Graduate School of Management
>> Clark University
>> 950 Main Street
>> Worcester, MA 01610-1477
>>
>> Phone: 508-793-7659
>> Fax: 508-793-8822
>> URL:
www.clarku.edu/~jsarkis
>>
jsarkis@clarku.edu
>> ==============================================
>>
>> Dear Anthony,
>>
>> I recommend contacting Peter Lowitt at
>>
http://www.devensec.com/sustain.html,
>> right here close to home. Consider incorporating a field trip into your
>> course. It's a fascinating story, building a planned community on a
>> de-commissioned Army base. Maybe you are already familiar with Devens.
>> The web page has a good set of links, too.
>>
>> I have served on a steering committee for one of programs at Devens.
>> Major reality check for researchers and teachers. Implementation is not
>> as
>> easy as it looks. And some involved in eco-industrial development
>> question
>> the transferability of the Kalundborg experience.
>>
>> Kurt
>> __________________________________________________
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>>
>> Dates to note:
>> February 17-18, 2006: Sustainable Regions and Global Trade, GIN workshop
>> at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont USA.
>> July 2-5, 2006: GIN2006, The 13th International Conference of the
>> Greening of Industry Network, Cardiff University, UK.
>>
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