Nigel Howard has returned from participating in the G’ Day USA Trade Mission throughout January. He visited San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York and added meetings in Washington to his itinerary. The main purpose of his visit was to introduce the ENVEST AU prototype design tool to the US market (potential collaborators/funders) and investigate the potential for developing US versions of ENVEST for new commercial [...]
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Visiting partner from Fundación Chile
Edge Environment and Fundación Chile have been working with Walmart Chile since 2010, helping them adapt the international Walmart Sustainability Index initiative to Chile. Together, we have developed 10 product category LCAs for food products and detergents, to help Walmart Chile’s suppliers, merchants and sustainability managers focus their sustainability efforts on key environmental hotspots over [...]
A common approach to estimating GHG emissions from road projects – a joint project with the Australian and NZ authorities
Edge Environment and partner Parsons Brinkenhoff worked with Australian and NZ authorities to fulfill their objective of establishing a common approach to estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from road projects. In order to reach that goal, the two companies developed a Workbook providing road designers, builders, managers and operators a means of consistently estimating GHG [...]
"EVENT INVITE: LCA Going Global, The LCA work of Walmart and the Sustainability Consortium 16 February 2012 http://t.co/g1JSmiiL"
Tweeted by Edge Environment on 29/01/2012Starting up the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society in NSW
The Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) is Australia’s peak professional organisation for people involved in the use and development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A not-for-profit organisation, ALCAS has individual and corporate members from industry, government, academia and service organisations. In an act to increase the society’s engagement at a regional level, the ALCAS Committee [...]
Contributing to a more resilient built environment for Australia
Edge Environment, in partnership with Climate Risk, has delivered a significant milestone in the Insurance Council of Australia’s (ICA) Resilience Rating Tool initiative. An online pilot version of the tool was presented to a Property Working Group of the ICA in December 2011 to a positive reception. The Resilience Rating Tool (RRT) uses ratings of [...]
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