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Latest International Trends on measuring Food Sustainability

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 15/11/2012 — Leave a Comment

  During the first week of October, Edge Environment’s Director Jonas Bengtsson presented at the 8th International Conference on LCA in the Food industry. This conference continued its growth trend, with over 430 participants, a great increase over the last Conference in 2010 in Bari, Italy with 272 attendants. While the usual topics such as [...]

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Case Study: The Bottom Line Business Case for Sustainability

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 13/11/2012 — Leave a Comment

Creating a clear link between financial benefits and the reduction of environmental impacts, i.e. the business case for sustainability is key to driving investment in environmentally focused projects. Edge had the opportunity to work on a project that allowed drawing a clear link between bottom line and environmental impact reduction for the development of infrastructure [...]

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How Will The Building Products LCI Affect Your Organisation?

Written by @EdgeEnvironment on 04/07/2011 — Leave a Comment

In the last few months there have been major advances in the way Australian building products can be assessed and compared for their environmental credentials. Edge Environment have played a significant role in these developments. To-date, building products and materials have primarily been assessed and  promoted with individual environmental claims like “recycled”, “recyclable”, “FSC Certified”, “non-toxic”, “natural”, “renewable”, “low VOC” etc.  This approach is too [...]

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Weaving an Environmental Picture

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 27/06/2011 — Leave a Comment

Woven Image is an international textile design company specialising in textiles for commercial interiors, including offices, hotels, restaurants, airports and theatres. Woven Image are working with Edge Environment to integrate life cycle thinking across their supply chain. First out, Woven Image selected the EchoPanel product ranges for life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify opportunities to [...]

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Weighting for LCA based Tools, Methods and Ecolabels – Practical but Contentious!

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 22/02/2011 — Leave a Comment

Weighting for LCA based Tools, Methods and Ecolabels – Practical but Contentious! Edge Environment paper for the 7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in March 2011: This paper explores the derivation and use of weighting factors to interpret LCIA results from midpoint impact measures to a final score. The different methods used internationally are [...]

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Sustainability Considerations in Structural Design

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 13/02/2011 — 1 Comment

Sustainability Considerations in Structural Design Edge Environment poster for the 7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in March 2011.

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