More stories about Life-Cycle Assessment

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    Architecture 2030's Francesca Desmarais explains the goals of reducing carbon emissions through the 2030 Challenge for Products

  • Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)

    The ISO standard is emerging as the best independent measure of a product’s environmental attributes including life-cycle assessment (LCA) and embodied energy.

  • Food for Thought

    A 2011 LCA shows that food scraps processed through a disposer and sent to a wastewater treatment plant with anaerobic digestion and cogeneration can result in a reduction of global warming potential.

  • Transparency and the Role of Environmental Product Declarations

    A white paper from UL Environment examines the development and use of EPDs in the validation of life cycle-based product environmental impacts.

  • What's In Your Product?

    A designer at BNIM examines the use of environmental product declarations.

  • USGBC Expands Materials and Resources Credits

    Revisions to the LEED rating system will place greater emphasis on Life Cycle Assessment.

  • New Product Category Rules to be Developed for Furniture Industry

    Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association International and NSF International are collaborating to develop furniture industry product category rules.

  • The Athena Institute EcoCalculator for Assemblies Addresses Life Cycle Assessment Results

    The online calculator, commissioned by the Green Building Initiative, is for use with the Green Globes system.

  • U.S. Geothermal to Postpone Annual General Meeting

    U.S. Geothermal Inc. ("U.S. Geothermal") (TSX: GTH)(NYSE Amex: HTM), a renewable energy company focused on the production and sale of electricity from geothermal energy, announced today that its board of directors has delayed the Company's Annual General Meeting of its shareholders from September...

  • New Approaches to Green Building Challenge Conventional Thinking, Offered for Free to Government

    Global property and construction consultant Rider Levett Bucknall is challenging building owners and government officials to rethink their approach to green building practices.