February LCA Workshop for Mining, Mineral & Metal Industries
CSIRO Mineral Resources in cooperation with mining industry equipment and software company Outotec completed a workshop on Life Cycle...
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GreenTag is GHS Ready
Global GreenTag claims it is ready for new legislative requirements for classification and labeling of chemicals under the Globally...
Life Cycle Management training for Professionals
Lifecycles are running a 3-month training program, beginning in May, to help managers to understand and apply lifecycle tools. Training...
LCA Ninja Training
Lifecycles are “Ninja” training in LCA on 5 and 6 April, designed for people new to LCA and those who have been playing around the edges...
CSIRO looks at cradle to farmgate GHG emissions for wheat
CSIRO used LCA methodology to determine cradle-to-farmgate GHG emissions for rainfed wheat grown in monoculture or in sequence with the...
LCA: Is it covering the main environmental and human health issues?
When analysts do LCAs for some products or processes there can be that nagging feeling that the main environmental or human health issues...
Digital Tool Finds Patterns in LCA
Stanford University’s Emily Grubert and Anne Siders recently conducted a broad review of the benefit of incorporating computational text...
LCA Shows Fertiliser Adds to the True Cost of a Loaf of Bread
A recent University of Sheffield study used a life-cycle assessment approach to analyse the environmental cost for every 800g loaf of...
LCA Shows Efficiency of Battery Electric Cars and Hybrids
There has been much debate about the efficiency of hybrid and electric cars when measured over a full life cycle. Recent studies are...
LCA on Decentralised Water Systems
The "decentralised" water system at the Centre for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL) at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, which...
Canada to Adopt National Clean Fuel Standard
The Canadian federal government has announced plans to work with the provinces to develop a national clear fuel standard as part of it’s...
First Global Analysis of Environment and Health Impacts of GHG Tax on Food
A new paper has explored the environmental and economic impacts of a greenhouse gas tax on food products. Food production is responsible...
Global Guidance for Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators
The UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative have published the Global Guidance for Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators. The publication is...
How Reflectivity of Biofuel Crops Impacts Climate
Researchers at the US Department of Energy have conducted a detailed study of the albedo (reflectivity) effects of converting land to...
GHG Impacts of Wood Pellet Heating Explored
The Northern Forest Center, a New England-based forestry advocacy group, recently released a study that analyzed the greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Kyle O'Farrell on becoming a Certified LCA Practitioner
Kyle O’Farrell recently qualified as a Certified LCA Practitioner. We caught up with him to find out how it all went. What is your...
Study Examines Approach to Social LCA
Social life cycle assessment is a relatively immature field of LCA and subject to great uncertainties, but "SLCA" is in strong demand...
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