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Brown Bag Webinars

Free webinars on LCA and sustainability topics

EarthShift Global is pleased to announce a series of free sustainability 'Brown Bag' webinars. These webinars covering a wide range of topics and are delivered by leaders in their respective fields. Each webinar is typically held from 1-2 PM Eastern time with a presentation followed by a Q&A Session.

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Upcoming Webinar: 

Leveraging Organizational LCA (OLCA) as the Foundation of Corporate Sustainability Plans

Speakers: Miguel Hernandez and Sarah Donovan


Webinar Description

This webinar introduces the fundamentals of O-LCA and explores its role as a foundation for corporate sustainability strategy. It explores the differences between O-LCA and corporate GHG accounting and how O-LCA can provide a robust Scope 3 assessment. When complemented by product-level LCAs, sustainable procurement practices, and Scope 3 emissions management, O-LCA becomes a strategic enabler, driving meaningful improvements across the value chain.


About the Speakers:

Miguel Hernandez is an experienced project leader in LCA and consumer packaged goods R&D. He has experience conducting and reviewing LCAs across several industries and worked for six years at Detergentes LTDA in Bogotá, where he helped develop TOP Terra, Colombia’s first eco-friendly home care products brand, oversaw recovery and management of over 50 tons of packaging, and generated millions of dollars in annual savings through improvements in formulation, packaging, and processes. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the same university’s Business School, where he now teaches LCA and industrial ecology. Miguel is based in Bogota, Colombia.

Sarah Donovan brings both academic and applied LCA expertise, with experience conducting GHG assessments and LCAs for products and organizations across several industries. She has developed regulatory reports on low-carbon fuels in Canada and conducted research on the climate impacts of beef in Nova Scotia and air transport in the Canadian lobster industry. Her work emphasizes drawing actionable insights for companies and policymakers to reduce environmental impacts. Sarah holds a bachelor’s in Biology and Environmental Studies from Davidson College and a master’s in Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie University. Sarah is based in Halifax, Canada.

Both Sarah and Miguel will be presenting talks on O-LCA at ACLCA 2025.

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Past Brown Bag Webinars:

You can access recordings of prior webinars on the EarthShift Global Official YouTube channel and via the links provided below.

Brown Bag Webinars
ESG

Quantifying Circularity: Using LCI in Real-World Textile Trials

July 2025

Land Use Change Data in High Resolution
ESG

Land Use Change Data in High Resolution

June 2025

MatterPD in Action
ESG

MatterPD In Action: Designing for Sustainability from the Start

May 2025

Ethical Data Visualization in LCA
ESG

Ethical Data Visualization in LCA

February 2025

Design-Concurrent Life Cycle Assessment
ESG

Design-Concurrent Life Cycle Assessment

January 2025

Visual Storytelling in LCA
ESG

Visual Storytelling in LCA

November 2024

Exploring IC Reuse & Circular Economy Transformation
ESG

Exploring IC Reuse & Circular Economy Transformation

August 2024

Healthcare LCAs: Data, Action, Controversies & Direction
ESG

Healthcare LCAs: Data, Action, Controversies & Direction

July 2024

Proven Approaches to Maximize Your LCA ROI
ESG

Proven Approaches to Maximize Your LCA ROI

June 2024

State Level Agricultural Data webinar introduction
ESG

State-Level Agricultural Data

April 2024

Pia Wiche
Pia Wiche

Putting LCA Results into Perspective

February 2024

Use of LCA in North American Policy

Use of LCA in North American Policy

January 2024

Good Food Institute logo
Good Food Institute

Surveying the Environmental Impact of Alternative Proteins via LCA

December 2023

Supply Chain Management for Circular Economy title slide
Bart van Hoof

Supply Chain Management for Circular Economy in Latin America

October 2023

Spiber LCA presentation title slide
Sunita Darbe, Spiber

Benchmarking, Storytelling, and Mitigation: How Spiber, a Cutting Edge Biotechnology Company, Applies LCA

September 2023

sustainable product design
Teja Chatty

Sustainable by Design

July 2023

Kiyotada Hayashi PhD
Kiyotada Hayashi PhD

LCA In Reality from Data to Decisions by Kiyotada Hayashi PhD

June 2023

Oberland industrial ecosystem
Oberland Science, In.

An Industrial Ecosystem at Work

May 2023

SDG Goals
un.org

Measuring the Social What, How, Who, and Why

April 2023

biogenic carbon illustration

PART 2 Understanding Biogenic Carbon: The Science and Application of Biogenic Carbon in Life Cycle Assessment

March 2023 - Part 2

biogenic carbon illustration

PART 1 Understanding Biogenic Carbon: The Science and Application of Biogenic Carbon in Life Cycle Assessment

February 2023 - Part 1

MariLCA impacts of marine plastic flowchart

Impacts of Plastic Litter in LCA: Developments & New Findings

January 2023

flow chart of TRL stages of LCA

LCA for Emerging Technologies

December 2022

plastic figures on electronic surface

Circular Design in Electronics Industry

September 2022

Dr. Claire Nelson

Advancing SMART Futures for Global Sustainability

August 2022

graphic of scale with plastic bottles and reusable bottle

Five Misperceptions Surrounding the Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic

July 2022

chart of windmills and circular loops

CELAVI Framework: Current & Future Capabilities & Applications

June 2022

Anders Bjorn

Using Planetary Boundaries with LCA for Absolute Sustainability Assessment and Target-setting

April 2022

Dan Mackey GMP

Sustainability Focused Innovation

March 2022

Four people clasping wrists with hands

Why Do I Need A Critical Review

February 2022

farm tractor

LCA Study of the Substitution Policy in Colombia

January 2022

compass pointing to Carbon Neutrality

Paths to Carbon Neutrality Panel Discussion featuring: Navitas Semiconductor, Interface, HP Inc.

September 2021

Tim Skone, DOE

Sustainable Water Mgmt for Decarbonizing Fossil Power Gen by Tim Skone, DOE

July 2021

smokestacks at factory
Wknight94 talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anticipatory LCA Approach to Improve Climate from Emerging Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies: NREL

June 2021

DaaS image

HP Taking LCA One Step Further by Tom Etheridge

May 2021

True North diagram

Balancing Creativity & Data, Making Sustainability Easier: TrueNorth Collective

April 2021

Cummins packaging

Packaging LCA in the Automotive Industry: Cummins

February 2021

Employees giving a high five

Gaining Traction with your Sustainability Initiative: WholeWorks

January 2021

Brown Bag Webinars
© Troy Mayne / WWF

Tackling the Plastic Pollution Crisis: WWF

November 2020

recycling bins

Circularity for Packaging - Past, Present and Future: PTIS

October 2020

Ranking diagram

Reconciling Values and Facts in Comparative LCA by Valentina Prado

August 2020

Eastman Chemical

Apportionment Lowering Energy Investments: Eastman Energy

July 2020

Oxygen stays outside of avacado

LCA of an Innovative Shelf Life Extension Technology: Apeel Sciences

May 2020

Life Cycle Assessment diagram

LCA In the Sub-National Context: Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality

April 2020

Vostok Dome C

Ice Core Tales of Climate Change from Opposite Ends of Earth: UNH EOS

March 2020

Earth

Earth Stories & Why They Matter

February 2020

Carl Duivenvoorden

Communicating Sustainability Using Storytelling

November 2019

Embodied Carbon diagram

Lifecycle of Building Materials & Other Embodied Carbon: Thornton Tomasetti

October 2019

Alluvial gold mining LCA extraction diagram

Environmental Impacts of Alluvial Gold Mining, Peruvian Amazon: PELCAN

September 2019

DPR communal space

The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings: stok

May 2019

LCA and Biomimicry diagram

LCA and Biomimicry: Arizona State University

April 2019

Diagram of CO2 sequestration by methane eating bacteria

CO2 Sequestration by Methane Eating Bacteria: Stanford University

March 2019

Little plastic windmills

Anticipatory LCA Explorative Comparative Design with Lise Laurin

February 2019

Anticipatory LCA diagram

Anticipatory LCA 101 with Valentina Prado

January 2019

TerraCycle diagram

Eliminating the Idea of Waste with TerraCycle

November 2018

Interface earth/eye image

Can We Reverse Climate Change: Interface

October 2018

Sustainability icons

Goals & Tools to Drive Sustainability: Dow

September 2018

Waste Management logo

Sustainability Services: Waste Management

June 2018