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Blending big data and sustainability business goals to improve your positive impact

Big data is heralded as the next frontier for innovation and productivity. Your company's sustainability data has the same potential to add value. How can you benefit from big data's approach to drive efficiency to sustainability in business?

February 20, 2014

Sustainability communication: share the good, the bad, and the ugly

How can you share your sustainability achievements in a trustworthy way and show your prospective customers that you have nothing to hide?

February 11, 2014

Eco-indicator 99 | Manuals

These Eco-indicator 99 manuals are intended to be used by designers and product managers that want to apply the standard Eco-indicator values for the assessment of environmental aspects of product systems.

February 04, 2014

Why carbon footprint is not enough

Our consultant, Ellen Meijer, shares her view on how the carbon footprint alone does not reveal the full picture of your effect on the environment.

January 29, 2014

Don’t follow the leader, choose your own path

Eric Mieras, Managing Director at PRé, shares his view on the importance of not following the crowd when it comes to achieving your company’s sustainability goals. Finding and following your own path is key to maximizing the benefit of your sustainability efforts for your company and the LCA community.

January 13, 2014

Dinner is served

Normally I dislike stereotypes and get pretty bored with trite assumptions about Italians (I am Italian, for the record), so it feels a bit like scoring an own goal to talk about food and the ability – my ability – to recognize a really good meal and to know what it means to prepare one. But since this column talks about data collection and its role in LCA studies, you will agree that the link with food is pretty automatic, right?

December 06, 2013

Eco-indicator 95 | Manuals

Eco-indicator 95, developed in 1995, was one of the first endpoint impact assessment methods in the world, allowing the environmental load of a product to be expressed in a single score.

October 29, 2013

Avoid greenwashing: transparency is the key

To meet the needs of consumers, organizations realize that offering a green product or service is necessary. Many organizations advertise their new eco-friendly consumer goods as such. But how many are actually committing the "sins of greenwashing"?

September 09, 2013

Consumers and sustainability

What is the role of consumers in the pursuit of a more sustainable economy?

March 19, 2013

How much does a tear weigh?

People, planet, and profit are considered the three pillars of sustainability. We can define economic and environmental sustainability, and metrics and indicators exist for both. But social sustainability relates to the quality of life... What is "quality of life"?

December 04, 2012

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