Announcements

Call for SLCA Practitioners / Experts - Delphi Study

Join Us in Advancing SLCA Research! Our team at the University of Reading is seeking practitioners in SLCA to participate in a Delphi Method study aimed at developing a Systematic Hotspot Identification Tool. To enrol and contribute your exper...
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PhD course - Advances in Life Cycle Modelling

Radboud University Nijmegen and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology collaborate on a course addressing PhD students who already have prior knowledge in LCA and would like to raise their game. The course runs in the first two weeks o...
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Seeking expert panel participants for measuring the sustainability of diets

The Leading A Sustainability Transition In Nutrition Globally (LASTING) project, based at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, is seeking expert panel participants to provide input ...
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Announcing the newly elected LCSA Section Board

The LCSA Section held an election during December 2022 to vote its new Board. According to the results and after consultation with each nominee, the new Board is composed of:   Chairs:David Font Vivanco (Eco Intelligent Growth, S.L.)Oluduns...
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Characterisation factors for the material footprint for ecoinvent 3.7.1/3.8+openLCA available

Dear colleagues, In process-based LCA, an analog implementation of the material footprint, which is commonly calculated with MRIO models, was lacking for some time. Thanks to the work by Mostert and Bringezu (2019), a list of 286 characterization...
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Call for Papers on the Special Issue of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews -- Advanced life-cycle modeling of energy and agroecosystems

Call for Papers: Special Issue in advanced life-cycle modeling of energy and agroecosystems Special Issue Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-and-sustainable-energy-reviews/call-for-papers/advanced-life-cycle-modeling-of-energy-a...
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Webinar: Innovation in LCA of Emerging Technologies: Forum I

This webinar is co-hosted by ISIE, ISSST, ACLCA, and JIE at June 16th 11-12:30am EDT. It will provide a summary of the papers in recent JIE special issue: “Life Cycle Assessment for Emerging Technologies”. This is the first of a series...
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Winter school “Life Cycle Assessment - fundamentals and practise with OpenLCA" - January 20-24, Nantes (France)

This winter school is organized by IFSTTAR and IRSTEA, supported by EcoSD network, and hosted by the Scientific and Technical Research Institute on City (IRSTV). It is opened to 15 students from EcoSD network, IRSTV federation as well as to intern...
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Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Annual Meeting: Call for Abstracts

Sustainable Nanotechnology Orgranization's Annual Meeting: Call for Abstracts Theme: Sustainable Nanotechnology in the 2020's Where: Bahia Resort Hotel, San Dieggo, CA  When: November 7-9th 2019 For more information: http://www.susna...
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New Paper: LCA of Efficient, Effective Surgical Model

I'm very excited to share my new publication- "Cataract surgery and environmental sustainability: Waste and lifecycle assessment of phacoemulsification at a private healthcare facility." Healthcare emits 10% of the US's total greenhouse gases, ye...
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American Academy of Ophthalmology Awards Best Paper for LCA of Cataract Surgery

Dr. Cassandra Thiel presented research on the waste generation and life cycle environmental emissions from cataract surgery in the US and India at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).  The work compared 5 me...
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