Stroll through any aisle in the grocery store today and it won’t take long to find products that claim to be sustainable. Some brands might profess how much energy was offset to make a product, while ...

Life cycle assessments (LCA) are one tool OEMs, fabricators and suppliers can use to understand – and improve – the environmental impact of composite parts and materials. Examples shown include an LCA ...

In our modem society, all products and services are based on the use of energy and material resources. While the products and services of stone-age hunter-gatherers or a primitive village economy may ...

Life cycle assessment of carbon capture at incineration plants shows that despite some drawbacks, the net result is a clear advantage for the climate. In our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...

Global urbanization is accelerating, and it is estimated that by 2050, up to 68 percent of the population will reside in urban regions. Cement, clay brick, ceramics, mortar, wood, plastic, and steel ...

Balancing the sustainability of these items with the benefits they seem to offer society, which range from convenience to sterility, has never been easy, and is even more difficult now. First, there’s ...

Sharmon Lebby is a writer and sustainable fashion stylist who studies and reports on the intersections of environmentalism, fashion, and BIPOC communities. The Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is a ...