Sentences with phrase «life cycle impacts»

This resulted in considerable differences in the total life cycle impacts, which shows how the environmental impact of food consumption can be reduced by an environmentally conscious consumer.

Supply of limited resources is being further constrained by more severe and unpredictable climate events and more potent microbes, pests and diseases — causing food producers to more seriously consider the environmental life cycle impact of food production activities.

2007 Environmental life cycle impacts of light - weighting vehicle front ends, American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

With an emphasis on the whole life cycle impact of the process from raw material to product end - of - life, Ecolean sets an example for others to follow.

With an emphasis on the entire life cycle impact of the processes from raw material to product end - of - life, Ecolean sets an example for others to follow.

Lectures on life cycle impacts at the outset of the project set the issues in context for the students.

Chiu, Y., Suh, S., Pfister, S., Hellweg, S., Koehler, A. 2012: Measuring ecological impact of water consumption by bioethanol using life cycle impact assessment.

This study helps us realize the importance of considering the full life cycle impacts before choosing an oil type and that further investigation should be conducted to improve rapeseed oil performance.

Although not perfect, this method allows companies to assess the complete life cycle impacts of a product and does not reduce impacts to CO2 equivalents, but looks at broader impacts and includes not only GHG emissions but aquatic toxicity, ozone depletion, eutrophification, etc..

ISO later standardized the methodology with the publication of ISO 14040 — Life Cycle Assessment Principles and Framework) in 1997, which was later added to in 1998 (14041 — Goal & Scope Definition and Inventory Analysis) and 2000 (14042 — Life Cycle Impact Assessment, 14043 — Life Cycle Interpretation).

A study looks at the life cycle impact of the different types of sustainable roofs and finds a clear winner for colder regions.

Their design was developed into a working prototype with the help of a furniture company, plus the whole project was monitored by sustainability experts who produced a life cycle impact report.

Bottom line: try walking, riding your bike or taking the bus to reduce those life cycle impacts of your alcohol consumption.

The fermentation advantage could be signficant for both the economics and the life cycle impacts: what's not up the stack is in the product or the bio-solids.