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Companies like Levi Strauss, Nike, Kraft Foods and Cannon are taking LCA out of the sustainability silos and into the design rooms by using LCA tools to make daily design decisions....
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Green Research looks at the benefits of life cycle assessments to businesses as well as what is driving and hindering wider LCA adoption....
The Industrial Design Consultancy created this carbon management tool for products of all kinds.
What does it take to compile an environmental product declaration? For the maker of Solar Gard window films, it was a two-year project to amass data spanning the lifecycle of the product line......
The upgraded second version of Earthster 2 -- first put to use to track the eco-impacts of Walmart's house brands -- will be pilot tested by 10 companies, then released for free next year....
Modular carpet maker Interface will complete Environmental Product Declarations — detailed documents explaining the life cycle impacts of items — for all of its products by 2012......
A life cycle assessment revealed that the biggest environmental impacts from a pair of Levi's jeans is consumer use and cotton. Here's how the company is addressing both....
Cleaning products firm Seventh Generation set a range of new sustainability goals this week with the release of its latest Corporate Consciousness report, including a commitment that all 100......
The graphic design industry has launched a project to develop measurements to help designers and their clients understand the environmental and social impacts of their work before projects......
After a water footprint revealed that 85 percent of the water use associated with its toilet paper takes place during flushing, the company set out to create a product that would address an......
The tool is a follow-up to a widely-cited report predicting that the ICT sector can reduce global GHG emissions by as much as 15 percent over the next 10 years....
When it comes to climate change, consumers want simple and clear ways to buy the goods and services they desire, in a fashion that won't destroy their planet. Legislation that puts the real......
The nonprofit eco-labeling group has launched a new certification that looks to measure the environmental impacts of an entire manufacturing firm. Green Seal will provide a walkthrough of the new......
A report published today by Coca-Cola and the Nature Conservancy looks at the fluid impact of the beverage giant's operations, and finds there are three key kinds of water used in making your......
Rigorous environmental product declarations are relatively new in the U.S., and Bekaert Specialty Films is among the early adopters of the practice. BSF completed a climate declaration with the......
We've just reached the halfway point in the public comment period for ULE 880 -- Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations -- the company-level sustainability standard my colleagues and I......
Sixty-two companies finished testing new standards for supply chain and product-level greenhouse gas emissions, paving the way for the methodologies to be finalized and released next spring....
Food is precious and perishable, and agriculture is extremely complicated. Adding sustainability to the mix makes it more so. Farmers and representatives for food processors, crop science......
An event last week brought together farmers and giant food conglomerates to develop new ways of working together to bring the environment back to the farm....
While helping the outdoor industry develop a green rating system for products, the company has announced plans to expand its own Green Index to cover its entire footwear line by the end of 2012.......
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