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
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