University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Developing the Basis for Creating Environmental Networking Organizations in Downstate Illinois

Morgan, Susan M.; Zhou, Jianpeng

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Title
Developing the Basis for Creating Environmental Networking Organizations in Downstate Illinois
Author(s)
  • Morgan, Susan M.
  • Zhou, Jianpeng
Issue Date
2010-02-08
Keyword(s)
  • Pollution prevention -- Marketing -- Illinois
  • Industrial technical assistance -- Marketing -- Illinois
Date of Ingest
2015-03-13T18:06:26Z
Geographic Coverage
Metro East Region, Illinois
Abstract
Through their work with Illinois industry, the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) prevents pollution from entering the environment while assisting companies to maintain economic viability. A majority of their work has been with companies in the northern and central parts of the state. ISTC would like to increase their visibility and use of their technical assistance services by industry in the St. Louis Metro-East. This project was initiated to develop the concept of and a model for an environmental networking organization (ENO) that ISTC could use to achieve this goal. Four models were evaluated to determine their potential to increase the visibility and use of ISTC’s services by industry in the Metro-East – a new traditional environmental networking organization (ENO), a new web-based ENO, a partnership-based ENO, and an outsourced ENO. It was found that a partnership-based ENO offers the most feasible option at this time. The benefits for ISTC include access to partner organizations’ membership and wider exposure. However, these efforts will need to be sustained to show results through increased use of ISTC’s services. ISTC’s focus should be on providing speakers for partner organizations’ regular meetings, rather than holding separate events. ISTC should develop a list of potential speakers and topics and provide it to the local organizations, in particular the Gateway Society of Hazardous Materials Managers and the Air and Waste Association – Greater St. Louis Section. The key is to offer a variety of relevant topics, both broad and focused, with engaging, informative speakers that will provide a positive impression of ISTC, even if the speaker is not from ISTC.
Publisher
Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Technical Report
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73396
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
This research was funded wholly by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Grant no. HWR06-204).

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Sponsored Research Program Unpublished Project Reports - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center PRIMARY
Reports of projects funded by ISTC's sponsored research program but not published in the RR or TR report series.