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How Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) benefits innovation in the Textile/Apparel Industry

EarthShift Global Partners with Clients to Identify Impacts, Solutions

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Distinguished HP Sustainability Leader Tom Etheridge Joins EarthShift Global as Senior Sustainability Advisor

Pioneering user of LCA for business models, and anticipatory LCA for product design, shares thoughts on how enterprises can steer toward sustainability thinking

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LCA in the Semiconductor Industry is Lagging: We Need Better and More-Accessible Data

Written by Lise Laurin, CEO and Tom Etheridge, Senior Sustainability Advisor

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Using Anticipatory LCA in Consulting: Bringing Insights to Innovation

Prospective LCA and the more comprehensive Anticipatory LCA have been developed to enable the application of LCA to emerging technologies early in their design phases.

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Bringing A Renewable Fuel Alternative to Market: How LCA Data Helped Biofine Develop New Technology, Win Industry Support

Over 5 billion gallons of heating oil are burned in the US annually, contributing significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change.

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The Most Important Step in Doing an LCA

“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.”

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The Business Case for Sustainability Assessment

Organizations managing for sustainability focus on the “triple bottom line” — the three bottom lines of planet, people, and profit.

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New Advances in LCA Provide Quicker, More Robust Results—Learn More!

As Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly adopted as an analytical tool by corporations, organizations, and public agencies, there’s been a parallel rise in research into how LCA is done and how its utility for sustainability assessment and decision-making can be improved.