Eco Innovations is an Atlantic-based consulting firm that focuses on supporting the economic sustainability of business, communities and industrial operations, locally and internationally, while ensuring social responsibility and environmental stewardship. Our aim is to help companies to turn environmental challenges into business opportunities through innovative strategies aimed at improving internal efficiencies and external relationships with surrounding system – economic, technical and social.

In particular, Eco Innovations has unique expertise in assisting organizations, interested in delivery technical skills and services within developing nations, to ensure efficiency and sustainable transfer of skills and technology to the host country. By giving proper attention to the social, political and cultural factors that may come into play during the introduction of new technologies and strategies, Eco Innovations provides the client with the insight to identify project stumbling blocks and develop strategies to mitigate them.

Areas of focus include: facilitating technology transfer, development of sustainability indicators, feasibility analysis pertaining to environmental technologies and strategies, development of process maps for by-product synergy (internal and within networks), and the creation and delivery of project/country specific training modules. We have established working partnerships with other sustainability professionals, such as landscape architects, environmental planners, and renewable energy experts to provide comprehensive strategies.

Projects include:

• Feasibility Analysis of Utilization Fishing Industry By-Products for the creation of Renewable Energy through Anaerobic Digestion;

• Development of a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for First Nations communities;

• Development of Technology Transfer Training Module for NGO staff involved with the Development of Waste Management Strategies in Developing Countries;

• Sustainability Evaluation and Improvement Recommendations for the Costa Rican Coffee Industry; 

• Development of sustainability indicators for regional community/industrial co-development;

• Development of “Green Boating” Initiatives;

• Workshop delivery for 1st and 2nd International Coffee Course (Sustainable Processing) held in Turrialba, Costa Rica;

• Preparation of sustainable business initiative focusing on Eco-Efficiency for New Brunswick SMEs;

• Cleaner Production strategies for agro-industrial processing facilities in Latin America;

• Feasibility studies for the implementation of solid waste management strategies for industrialized municipalities in Latin America.

• Development of regional pollution prevention program for Nova Scotia Municipalities (aimed at reducing discharge of hazardous substances to the municipal sewage system);

• Socio-economic evaluations and business case analyses of integration of sustainable environmental technologies strategies into industrial and community clusters in developing nations.

• Developed sector based pollution prevention program aimed at improving the eco-efficiency and environmental stewardship of Maritime food-processing facilities.

Founder
Michelle Adams (PEng, PhD) is Eco Innovations Managing Director and is one of North America’s few consultants with formal training in Industrial Ecology (IE) and its technical application to manufacturing and processing sectors. She has experience in both Canadian and international settings. In addition to a PhD specializing in the application of IE concepts in developing countries, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical and materials engineering and is a former naval officer. This unique background is supported by several years project experience with the completion of environmental site assessments, overseeing large-scale remedial projects, developing pollution prevention/cleaner production strategies for a variety of industries, and industrial waste management. Dr. Adams is also involved with on-going research focused on renewable energy opportunities and by-product utilization for industries, as well as the incorporation of ecological engineering strategies for the innovative handling and treatment of solid and liquid organic wastes.