How Can LCA Achieve Better Alignment with the Circular Economy?
We’ve been doing a lot of work and thinking about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and its relationship to the concept of the circular economy.
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EarthShift Global’s Top Sustainability Conferences for 2019
As we dive into the new year, our team at EarthShift Global is more excited than ever to participate — as organizers, sponsors, speakers, and attendees — in several sustainability-focused conferences around America and around the world in 2019.
An Alternative for Interpreting Comparative LCAs: Try Ranking the Results Using Multi-Attribute Analysis
We’re proud to share a new publication from EarthShift Global senior analyst Valentina Prado.
Want to Fulfill A Basic Mission of Sustainable Business Thinking? Start Taking Litter into Account in Life Cycle Assessments
One of our principal missions as sustainability practitioners is to introduce broader perspective into business thinking, to reduce impacts and eliminate blind spots and “unknown unknowns.” Today I’d like to offer one small, simple piece of advice for doing this more effectively.
Integrate Employee Engagement into Your Sustainability Efforts
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably part of a team that’s doing extraordinary things to achieve aggressive environmental sustainability goals. Whether your goal is zero landfill, energy independence, or carbon neutrality, I’d wager that you’ve already accomplished a lot and aim to accomplish much more.
OTR Wheel Green Carbon: Tire Recycling that Works
It’s always a pleasure to work with a company that listens to its customers, and applies creative thinking to help solve the problems they’re facing.
Understanding the Life Cycle Impact Assessment Process: Part III – Modeling Effects and Conclusion
Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) is a central element of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) -- the point in the LCA process where potential environmental impacts of a product or service are identified and quantified.
CILCA 2017: Human Culture and the Natural World in Colombia
One of EarthShift Global’s fundamental business principles is the goal of building better relationships between human culture and the natural world, in socially equitable and economically sound ways.