Initial Brainstorming

Education possibilities

 

• Partner with schools and universities (charter/public/private)
• Partner with local businesses, especially for on the job training
• Cooking classes
• Environmental movie events

• Management training
• Green design / building
• Property owner / manager education
• Corporate partnerships
• Composting / recycling

Marketing

• Good logo
• Web presence
• Social media
• Events
• Song?
• Spokespersons
• Buzz
• EcoCenter awards
• Networking
• Audience — foodies!
• Connect and incentivize memberships of other organizations
• Create “EcoCenter Certification” on products
• Tote bags & other merchandizing
• Made in Jersey/Morristown brand

Transportation

• Jitneys
• Horse-drawn carriage
• Food trucks
• Electric cars as shuttles
• Pedometers- give award points for furthest walkers to Center
• Free ice-cream for walkers/bikers
• Preferred parking for fuel-efficient cars
• Improve walkability- cross walks
• Valet parking for carpooling
• Carpooling website for people coming here- Transoptions
• Zip car location
• Marketing in town center for walkers
• Shared delivery service based here, servicing town
• Footprint markers in town showing way to EcoCenter
• Charging station for electric cars

Design

• Lighting/ change colors day vs night
• Mural on building
• Alternative energy powered kinetic sclupture
• Vertical gardens
• Espalier – fruit trees against the walls
• Bio Wall
• Rain gardens
• Hydroponics
• Ergonomic designs
• Adaptive reuse – integrated stylistic forms
• Cogeneration
• Daylighting
• Sun control
• Wind power
• Solar
• Increase pervious surfaces
• Dig down
• Geothermal
• Rainwater harvesting
• Reclaimed & recycled materials
• Salvaged materials
• Mural (3D)
• Rotate local artists on display
• Native plants
• Green space
• Track system for spacial flexibility
• Courtyards
• Grey water recycling
• Horizontal geothermal
• Landscape adjacent spaces
• Window farms
• Biofuel from kitchen
• Produce biofuel
• Enter living building challenge
• Passive solar heat
• Solar chimneys
• LEE certification
• Passive house technology
• Animal processing
• Live/work – eco village
• Cutaways and interpretive signage