Life Cycle Assessments

Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) provide crucial information to aid in business, political, and consumer decision-making. Utilizing a shortened version of the Life Cycle Assessment, OneCoolEarth provides an affordable yet accurate data and analysis to profile an organization’s direct and indirect environmental impact and its consequences. Our methodology examines factors such as:

• GHG (Green House Gases)
• Oceanic loss in PH levels
• smog and airborne pollution
• deteriorating ozone layer
• desertification
• Eco/human-toxicological pollutants
• habitat destruction
• eutrophication
• land use
• depletion of minerals and fossil fuels.

Besides assessing impacts, OneCoolEarth is prepared to offer strategies to reduce and mitigate negative impacts.

The Canadian Standards Association has outlined the following uses for an LCA.

1. Evaluation and policy-making:

• Supply information for evaluating policies that affect resource use and releases;
• Develop regulations on materials use and environmental releases where a comprehensive inventory and impact analysis have been conducted;
• Identify gaps in information and knowledge, and help establish research priorities and monitoring requirements;
• Evaluate product statements of quantifiable reductions in energy, raw materials, and environmental releases.

2. Public education:

• Develop materials to help the public understand resource use and release characteristics associated with products, processes, and activities;
• Design curricula for training those involved in product, process, and activity design.

3. Internal decision-making:

• Compare alternative materials, products, processes, or activities within an organization;
• Compare resource use and pollution information with those of other manufacturers;
• Train staff responsible for reducing the environmental burdens associated with products, processes, and activities, including product designers and engineers.

4. Public disclosure of information:

• Provide information to policy makers, professional organizations and the general public on resource use and pollution;
• Help substantiate product-related statements relating to energy, raw materials, and environmental releases.

Please contact us for more information.