NEW! LCA Software for Product Design

EarthShift Global has developed custom LCA software that supports easier and earlier impact exploration during the creative product design process.

Each step of an LCA has been reimagined through the lens of product design. We have created new tools, methods, and visualizations to help product designprofessionals engineer environmental impact out of their products with less effort and in less time. And, with affordable monthly subscription plans, you can access these valuable features and benefits for far less than other LCA tools.

Features and Benefits include:

Explore hot spots earlier than ever before using Underspecification

Underspecification, an innovative approach to LCA, is useful when information about a product — how it's made, transported, used, or disposed of — is still unknown or exploratory. Underspecification allows you to model the known unknowns and iterate based on these models during early design stages.

This gives you the earliest possible look at data-driven insights to guide your design decisions.? 

Explore the multiverse of product impact with Monte Carlo analysis.

Monte Carlo analysis is an analytical approach to "what-if" scenarios to gain a more informed view of how unsettled data affect the outcome of your product’s impact. Run 100s or 1,000s of scenarios to focus faster on what matters most in Best, Worst, and Most Likely scenarios.

This paints an early picture of the risks and uncertainties of your product(s).

Compare Across Impact Categories to Iterate Designs.

Understand how product decisions compare considering multiple environmental impact categories.? And use scientifically robust One Score Graphs (stochastic multi attribute analysis) to understand the probability that each of the compared products, parts, or sub-assemblies is the most sustainable considering a range of Impact Categories.?? By default, we include the following impact categories in the LCIA model:  

• Cumulative Energy Demand (ecoinvent)
• Global Warming Potential (IPCC 100a GWP Ecosystem Quality (ReCiPe (H) endpoint) 
• Human Health (ReCiPe (H) midpoint) 
• Natural Resources (ReCiPe (H) endpoint)
• Water Use (ReCiPe (H) midpoint)

This allows insightful comparison of the relative impacts of your product designs and allows you to focus on which impact categories matter most to your business and customers. 

Collaborate with others 

New application interfaces and flexible software design allow you to share your LCA models with co-workers, suppliers, and customers to co-create faster resulting in stronger product design collaborations. Integrate with external platforms like AutoDesk to streamline your creative process by directly importing your Bill of Materials into MatterPD.

This provides a streamlined process and a simple way to communicate with stakeholders as your product design moves towards final specification. ?

Specify confidently with world-class ecoinvent databases

The ecoinvent database (our default inventory uses the cut-off approach) is the most comprehensive, consistent, and transparent Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) database for environmental assessments. Right-scale your access by selecting from tens-of-thousands of processes inventories. 

This gives you the confidence of rigorous science and transparent data.

Learn more about MatterPD and our FREE 14 day trial

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Free Webinar

Addressing Software Life Cycle Assessments: Lessons from MatterPD

DATE: Thursday, October 17, 2024

TIME: 1:00-2:00pm ET

PRESENTERS:

Ismael Velasco, Chief Technology Officer, EarthShift Global

César Camou, Sustainability Analyst, EarthShift Global

DESCRIPTION:

Ismael Velasco and César Camou will explore the challenges of addressing and modeling the Life Cycle Assessment of MatterPD, a Software as a Service (SaaS) that EarthShift Global recently launched.

The production, consumption and maintenance of digital services and products, and Software/Platform as a Service ecosystems in particular, profoundly shape the cradle-to-grave impacts of the Information, Communication & Technology (ICT) sector as a whole. Software design, implementation and consumption choices dictate physical device and infrastructure requirements as well as volumes in circulation or in production. This directly shapes global extractive and manufacturing demand , resource and energy use, device churn rates and end-of-life scenarios. ?Nevertheless, life cycle assessments (LCAs) of software remain extremely rare, so attributions to software design and implementation decisions and consumption patterns remain hard to quantify or compare, depriving us of a potentially powerful lever to improve our climate trajectory.

Ismael and César will start a conversation about the challenging issues that must be addressed with the goal of navigating the complexity of this sector. They will do so from the point of view of software, the environmental effects of SaaS task implementation decisions, and the perspective of how LCA can help map and understand the environmental impacts of software.

PRESENTER BIOS:

Ismael Velasco is the Chief Technology Officer at EarthShift Global and oversaw the development of the new MatterPD software. He is an expert on green computing and software eco-design, contributing to research, practice and guidance with organizations like W3C, Adora Foundation, Green Software Foundation, University of Glasgow, the Green Web Foundation, ClimateAction.tech, Proof of Green, and others at the cutting edge of this field.

César Camou is a Sustainability Analyst at EarthShift Global and designs creative sustainability strategies for organizations, products, and services. He holds a degree in Sustainable Materials Science and a master’s degree in Sustainability Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has expertise in new technologies and advanced materials, consumer electronics and small-scale industries.

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