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Building the Sustainability Pathway!
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| EarthShift Newsletter | October 2011 |
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 Greetings!
EarthShift's approach towards sustainability is founded on a concept of abundance. We wish to make the best knowledge, skills and tools available to organizations throughout the world, in hopes that each and every one will strive to reach sustainability goals. And in line with this concept we realize that we can not go about this alone, which is why EarthShift has partnered with many of the best organizations in the field. Our partnerships range worldwide and vary in expertise from food industry to ecolabeling to building design and concepts.
- Read below about a recent collaboration between Bluehorse Associates and EarthShift.
- Download the latest SimaPro update: 100 processes added to the USLCI database, plus two new US Input-Output databases and new multi-user features.
- Sign up for our 15 hour multi-session Environmental Mechanisms and Impact Assessment course and earn your LCA Practitioner Certificate.
- Read our thoughts on the the recently released GPP sustainability indicators and where the packaging industry should be headed from here on our new EarthShift blog.
- Join Lise Laurin of EarthShift at the Waste to Energy Exchange November 11th.
- Join Todd Van Gordon of Colgate-Palmolive and Laurel McEwen of EarthShift October 27-28th at Rutgers University for a Sustainable Packaging Workshop.
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A New Partnership
Bluehorse is a pioneer in the sustainability metrics field. They specialize in delivering innovative tools for the food industry that provide decision makers with clear, usable information for their business and products.
A New Tool offered by EarthShift
Carbonostics (cost + carbon + nutrition) is an innovative product-level lifecycle assessment and screening tool built for the food industry. The smart, web-based tool delivers impact assessment or hotspot screening for any food product or menu along three key criteria: cost + carbon + nutrition. Carbonostics offers a practical, hybrid approach to product-level lifecycle assessment allowing users to screen products for hotspots, model product development with scenarios or process a full lifecycle carbon analysis. The tool also includes a database with nearly 2000 carbon emission factors for food ingredients and processes. Carbonostics is a user-friendly application used by all sectors of the food industry - manufacturers, retailers, food service providers, universities, hotels and consultancies.
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 New SimaPro Update 7.3.2
There have been a number of changes included in the latest SimaPro update, including the ability for multi-users with different licenses to simultaneously login to the same database, updates to several databases including the addition of new processes in the US LCI database, and new changes to the ReCiPe and EDIP 2003 methods were also included. To find out more, view this PDF of "What is New?" And if you need to get your SimaPro license back up to date, contact us for a quote on renewing your service contract. |
Environmental Mechanisms and Impact Assessment Methods- 5 session online course beginning Nov 16
This course was developed for LCA practitioners without a background in environmental science as a means to prepare them for questions on the LCA Practitioners Certification exam relating to the mechanisms behind an impact category's damage. This five-session class delves into the details of how various impact assessment methods are modeling the fate, transport & exposure pathways (causality chain, mechanisms) of emissions, allowing you to understand each impact category. The course will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the major internationally accepted impact assessment methods, thus allowing you to choose the best method for your LCA study. The course is split up in to 5 three hour online sessions during the time of November 16 through February 14th. For more details on how the course is split up and and what each session includes see our full course description. |
Sustainable Packaging navigating the metrics, where we go after GPP
There has been a lot of development over the last years in regards to what metrics to use for measuring the sustainability of packaging. Read this month's EarthShift blog to find out more about some of the realizations the industry has already come to where we need to go from here.
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Waste-to-Energy Exchange
Attend the Waste-to-Energy Exchange on November 11th in New York and hear about the importance and potential for using waste as a renewable energy source. EarthShift founder, Lise Laurin will be presenting at 12:45 providing an overview of Waste-To-Energy using LCA and TCA as the driving analysis toolkit to shed light on opportunities and challenges presented by WTE technology. |
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TCA Workshop
Need a thorough method for deciding the best step to take towards sustainability for your organization?
Total Cost Assessment (TCA) is a key tool for organizations to evaluate their sustainable development considerations. It enables a better decision making process by evaluating all of the "what if's" correlated to the choices.
You can learn to facilitate an assessment within your own organization by attending our our TCA facilitation workshop coming up on November 16 in Portsmouth, NH. Sign up Now!
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New PackageSmart Software
Watch this video to find out about a tool specifically built for packaging designers to be able to easily evaluate the impacts of multiple packaging options.
A Free Two Week Demo
Click here to Start Now! |
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SimaPro LCA software
SimaPro is a tool to collect, analyze and monitor the environmental performance of products and services.
Drill down and get to the source with SimaPro
- Transparent Unit Process Data
- Process, Input/Output and Hybrid LCA's
- Complete Networks
- Hotspot Analysis
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LCA Training Certificate Program
Our multi-step LCA training certificate program is designed to couple LCA modeling skills with LCA interpretation and report writing skills, preparing you to become an LCA professional. |
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Custom Tool Development
Get your own environmental impact calculator with:
- Easy to use & Simplified Interface
- Comprehensive Data & Calculation ability
- ISO Compliant Reporting Features
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Upcoming Conferences
Waste to Energy Exchange
Friday, November 11, 2011
New York City |
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| | | Upcoming Training Courses... | *indicates on-site class (all others are online)
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To introduce students to SimaPro and provide practical experience applying the LCA methodology as defined in ISO 14040/14044.
To give students an understanding of how to correctly build and model product stages in the SimaPro LCA software. End of Life Advanced - October 27
Take this in-depth course to learn the how to represent the end of life of products in your LCA. This course will give you hands on experience in SimaPro by building a Life Cycle of an ink jet cartridge and using this example to model end of life scenarios.
One day of modeling includes Creating Impact Assessment Methods, Parameters and End of Life Advanced. Participants will receive an Advanced SimaPro User certificate. Second day of Interpretation includes Impact Assessment Methods, and Recycling . Take one or both days.
Learn how Life Cycle Assessment can optimize your business decisions for developing sustainable materials and building designs. LCA is no longer just for the expert - it is a crucial design, procurement and marketing tool and fast becoming the standard for measuring "green". To give students an understanding of how to calculate, analyze and implement their social, environmental, and financial impacts using the SimaPro LCA software. To teach the Total Cost Assessment (TCA) methodology and train participants to become a workshop facilitator for your company.
Environmental Mechanisms & Impact Assessment Methods - November 16, December 6, January 10 & 31, and February 14, 2012
Five session course. This course delves into the details of how various impact assessment methods are modeling the fate, transport & exposure pathways (causality chain, mechanisms) of emissions, allowing you to understand each impact category and why your results change when you use different impact assessment methods.
Impact Assessment Methods - November 29
This course provides an overview of how various impact assessment methods are modeling the fate, transport & exposure pathways (causality chain) of emissions, allowing you to understand each impact category and why your results change when you use different impact assessment methods.
* Intro to LCA in SimaPro (2 day) - November 30 & December 1, Seattle, WA
This in-depth introductory course teaches the basics of life cycle assessment. This course is suitable for people entering the field of LCA and looking to become LCA practitioners.
Three hour seminar to learn what the life cycle assessment methodology is all about and how industry is integrating it as part of sustainability metrics worldwide.
Take this in-depth two session course to learn the basics of building recycling scenarios within SimaPro Life Cycle Assessment software.
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