Greenfly is a website that calculates the environmental impacts of product design options. You enter information on your design concept including materials, manufacturing processes, transport assumptions, operational use and end of life options. As you build your product, Greenfly instantly calculates the environmental impacts of each life cycle phase. See http://www.greenflyonline.org/ … [Read more...]
ThinkBrick Australia life cycle assessment
ThinkBrick Australia commissioned Energetics to undertake a full Life Cycle Assessment of the Australian clay brick industry. This involved collecting data directly from the industry on clay extraction, manufacturing processes, transport requirements, construction elements, and end-of-life disposal. They report that the embodied emissions of a typical Australian house represent only 11% of the total emissions over a 50-year life cycle, regardless of walling materials. See … [Read more...]
The Australian Ecolabel Program
The Australian Ecolabel Program, managed by Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA), is based on the international standard ISO 14024: "Environmental Labels and Declarations - Guiding Principles" which requires environmental labeling specifications to include criteria that are objective, reasonable and verifiable. The program has developed a number of voluntary standards for ‘environmentally preferable products’, based on a life cycle assessment approach to environmental performance … [Read more...]
ISO 14000 Set:2005 Environmental Management Standards set
The ISO 14000 family of standards addresses various aspects of environmental management which aims to control and improve the environmental performance of an organisation as measured against objectives. The standards are voluntary. The family of standards includes: ISO 1400 1 :2004 Environmental Management Systems (requirements) ISO 14004:2004 Environmental Management Systems (guidelines) ISO 14050:2009 Environmental management - Vocabulary ISO 14040:2006 Environmental … [Read more...]
