Professor Sarah McLaren from Te Kura Mātauranga mō Ahuwhenua me Te Taiao School of Agriculture and Environment uses life cycle assessment to compare products for their environmental impacts or to ...

Life cycle assessments (LCA) are one tool OEMs, fabricators and suppliers can use to understand – and improve – the environmental impact of composite parts and materials. Examples shown include an LCA ...

Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) is an emerging methodology that evaluates the social and socio-economic impacts associated with the life cycle of products, services and processes. In conjunction ...

Sharmon Lebby is a writer and sustainable fashion stylist who studies and reports on the intersections of environmentalism, fashion, and BIPOC communities. The Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is a ...

To initiate change of any kind, one must first be aware of the problem at hand. In the construction industry –which is responsible for 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions and countless other ...

Stroll through any aisle in the grocery store today and it won’t take long to find products that claim to be sustainable. Some brands might profess how much energy was offset to make a product, while ...

A life-cycle assessment or LCA analyses the impact of a manufactured product. The main stages analysed as part of a life-cycle assessment are: making materials for the product from the raw materials ...

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren't sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can ...

Balancing the sustainability of these items with the benefits they seem to offer society, which range from convenience to sterility, has never been easy, and is even more difficult now. First, there’s ...