.webp?width=370&height=150&name=Hubspot_Landingpage_1920x775-2%20(1).webp)
Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE
Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product...
Category - life cycle assessment
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=Lies-vs-True%20(1).webp)
Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?
An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=product-sustainability-2-1500x500-1024x341%20(1)%20(1).webp)
How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts
Thanks to automatization and data interfacing, LCA is becoming accessible to any role in an...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Featured_Image_Supermarket-1024x346%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Do LCAs reveal green lies?
As life cycle experts know, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to either confirm or...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=product-sustainability-1500x500%20(1).webp)
How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals
Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=featured_image_1%20(1).webp)
LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think
With the use of electric vehicles on the rise, there’s a lot of buzz about how environmentally...
%20-%20Copy%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=cd-labratory-2-1500x500-1024x341%20(3)%20-%20Copy%20(1).webp)
German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights
Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland...
%20(1)%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=bioREFINE-2G_Pic1%20(1)%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic
How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a...
Clevere Mikroorganismen am Werk: Aus Abfall wird Biokunststoff
So genannte Biokraftstoffe der ersten Generation basieren auf Materialien wie Mais, Zuckerrohr,...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=Kroehling_Blog%20(1).webp)
LCAs in the telecommunication sector
Andreas Kröhling, Senior Expert for Corporate Responsibility at “Deutsche Telekom AG” recommends...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Miele_Blog-1%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”
Marko Schnarr works for the environmental office at Miele, the well-known manufacturer of household...
LCA database provider ecoinvent provides exclusive insights
The ecoinvent Centre in Switzerland and thinkstep AG based in Stuttgart, Germany offer background...
%20(2).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Data_bases_article_image-2%20(1)%20(2).webp)
Tips and expertise shared by three experienced users of LCA Databases
During the preparation of the article on LCA data and LCA databases it was a great experience to...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Data_bases_article_image-2%20(4)%20(1).webp)
Datenbank-Anbieter thinkstep AG gibt exklusive Einblicke
Die thinkstep AG aus Stuttgart und das ecoinvent Centre in der Schweiz bieten...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Data_bases_article_image-2%20(6)%20(1).webp)
Datenbank-Anbieter ecoinvent gibt exklusive Einblicke
Das ecoinvent Centre in der Schweiz und die thinkstep AG aus Stuttgart bieten...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Data_bases_article_image-2-1%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Success factor for Life Cycle Assessment: data, data, data
When deciding to get started with Life Cycle Assessment you probably have come across the quote:...
Erfolgsfaktor für Ökobilanzen (Life Cycle Assessment, LCA): Daten, Daten und nochmals Daten
Wenn Sie planen, erstmals eine Ökobilanz zu erstellen, war vermutlich die folgende...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=Shanghai%E2%80%99s-Pudong-skyline-1024x5(1).webp)
The greening of construction (Part III): Buildings Ratings tools in international context
In the first article in this series a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the trend towards...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Flow_Dave6%20(1)%20(1).webp)
The greening of construction (Part II): International development of EPDs
Unless you have been living under a rock, or on the wrong side of the digital divide in a slum, you...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=Construction-boom-Western-China%20(1).webp)
The greening of construction (Part I): Overview
In recent years humankind reached a significant milestone when we became a predominantly urban...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=handprinter-1024x576%20(1).webp)
From footprints to handprints: clutching at straws?
A couple of years ago TIME magazine rated Handprints among the “10 ideas that are changing your...
Product environmental footprinting: Harmonization or proliferation of standards?
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a means of determining the environmental impact of a product,...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_umberto-tutorial%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Making an LCA in 1 Hour – How to Get Going with Umberto
SimaPro and GaBi are the most commonly used software tools to conduct a professional life cycle...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_milk-vs-soy-milk%20(1)%20(1).webp)
The Cow, Black Sheep of Our Climate
Right after driving, flying, heating, and cooling, consuming meat and dairy products weighs the...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_user-workshop21%20(2).webp)
Top-Notch Sustainability Practitioner Gathering: Umberto User Workshop in Essen, Sept 11/12, 2013
When the only way to implement a satisfactory future in human development is holistic thinking...
%20(2).webp?width=370&height=150&name=mass-flow-SWU-spinning-site-Wald%20(1)%20(2).webp)
5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency Part 2: Material Flow Modeling, MFCA and LCA Made Easy
Last week, I introduced you to the first three steps small and medium-sized companies need to take...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=mass-flow-SWU-spinning-site-Wald%20(1)%20(1).webp)
5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency: Material Flow Modeling Made Easy
When calculating and reducing business-related environmental effects, two different approaches are...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=8073465037_8b8ae23cac_z%20(1)%20(1).webp)
How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
Picking up on “sustainable agriculture”, most people think of free range chicken. They imagine...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Umberto_NXT_LCA_results_640%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Discovering All Environmental Effects: How Life Cycle Assessment with LCA Software Works
Environmental effects are extremely complex, that’s why they’re impossible to measure, so let’s not...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_oil-majors-material-flow-man%20(1)%20(1).webp)
When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises
There are manifold approaches to close the apparent gap between a shrinking resource base on the...
Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture, Part 2
Last week, in part one of this article, we ended with the tragedy of the commons and the question...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_fish-footprints%20(1).webp)
Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture
Shrimp farms destroy sensitive mangrove forest ecosystems, salmon escape from designated...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_user-workshop21-1%20(2).webp)
LCA, CF, MFCA? What to Expect From Umberto User Workshop Hamburg, Sept 17/18
Sustainability and efficiency: a couple of terms that couldn’t be more misused and greenwashed. A...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_tablet%20(1).webp)
The 8 Most Specific LinkedIn Groups for Industrial Ecology
The social media marketing hype seems to be declining, whereas a seemingly infinite flood of mobile...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=ktf_carbon-leakage%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions – How to Face Carbon Leakage
In the course of the last 20 years, some of the more developed countries achieved a remarkable...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=environmentally-friendly%20(1)%20(1).webp)
What is an Environmental Product Declaration? And What is it Good For?
When talking about product labels that deal with the environment, it is often argued that there is...
ecoinvent – The Swiss Army Knife of LCA Background Databases
Background databases can be very convenient when you assess all of the impacts a product or a...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=lecture_hall%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Students Often Responsible for Changes
It’s international Students‘ day today.
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Laminated_Floors%20(1)%20(1).webp)
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=life-cycle-ecar%20(1).webp)
Exploring the Environmental Effects of Electric Cars
Can you imagine the weight of 1.8 billion tonnes? I can’t. I can only try to put this number in...
%20(1).webp?width=370&height=150&name=Reuse1%20(1)%20(1).webp)
Productivity, Efficiency and Quality
Productivity is probably the main keyword in growth theory. Expressed as a mathematical function it...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=savings%20(1).webp)
Transparency and Saving Potentials
When I read about “transparency” in the context of sustainability or sustainability management the...
.webp?width=370&height=150&name=LCM-1%20(1).webp)
Life Cycle Management 2011 – Personal Field Report
Last week I was at the LCM 2011 in Berlin – the biggest conference of its kind, with nearly 600...
Information and Interaction – Social Media in an “analogue way”: LCM and Umberto User Workshop in Berlin
Two important events upcoming this week: From Sunday 28th August on, the Life Cycle Management...
