Life Cycle Analysis

Hidden Costs of Design Decisions

Molly Miller | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Societal Costs, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Boulder Green Building Guild, General Services Administration, Athena Institute, Embodied Energy, Life Cycle Analysis, Gsa, Costing, Retrofit, Lca, Lcca, Steven Winte Aassociates, Denver News
Molly Miller

The price of new equipment is an easily comprehensible but incomplete cost. Life cycle cost analysis adds in maintenance, energy use, tax incentives or rebates, and any salvage value.

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Apparel Industry on Verge of Unified Environmental Assessment Tool

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Fashion, Ecofashion, Life Cycle Analysis, Eco Index, Sustainability, Nau, Eco Working Group, Environmental Assessment, Fashion/Apparel, Life Cycle, Timberland, Green News
Summer Rayne Oakes

Outdoor Industry Association's Eco Index is prime time for piloting, meaning the Beta Version is now available on the new Eco Index site here for ind...

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Our Real Health Care Goals

Erik Rothenberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Standard, Tools of Change, Life Cycle Analysis, Tools, Values, Green, Standards, Sustainability, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Healthy Living News
Erik Rothenberg

Instead of looking for consensus on already politically programmed talking points, we could instead identify a high level goal that would be easy for everyone to agree upon -- "Universal Well Being for all Americans."

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Whistler Mountain's Accountability Deficit

Erik Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainability, Outcome Measurement, Life Cycle Analysis, Values, Accountability, Winter Olympics 2010, Nodar Kumaritashvili, Sports News
Erik Rothenberg

Is a course being "financially sustainable" really the best metric of success? What about the value of the luger's life and the lives of future riders on the course.

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