Manufacturing a product can be very complex. Raw materials come from many different sources, and obtaining each one of those materials involves a different series of inputs, outputs and processes, each of which has impacts on the environment. To identify the total environmental impact of a product it is necessary to do a life cycle analysis.
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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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The words discount, half-price and final sale can get you running to the mall or reaching for your credit card. But in her book called Cheap, author Ellen Ruppel Shell explains why bargain-hunting may come at a high price. 
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The Data Central Web portal provides quick access to a variety of CalRecycle and other data sources and tools relating to California's solid waste stream, waste disposal and recycling facility infrastructure, materials flow, recycling, and much more.
This web page is ugly and slow, but if you have pateince it will take you to some raw numbers.
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Trying to account for the actual amount of water used to produce various products.
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This is one attempt to provide comprehensive data on humanity’s demand on nature. This foundation tries to track how this demand compares across several countries, territories, and regions, and how it relates to the planet’s biological capacity to meet these demands.
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Here you will find data on energy consumed in the U.S.
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S.
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Editing our lives to be better and greener is a challenge, but if we're smart, we can all make nothing the next big thing.
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Here is the text of the original so-called Brundtland Report from 1987.
Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future - A/42/427 Annex - an element of the body of UN Documents for earth stewardship and international decades for a culture of peace and non-violence for the children of ...
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Most news coverage of energy and the environment is in love with the new: cool new technologies, new research, and all the impressive creative energy that’s being poured into these fields.
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The Index is a comprehensive scientific measure of the ocean’s overall condition. It advances ocean policy, compares future progress, and informs decisions regarding marine ecosystems worldwide.
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greenhouse gas emissions inventory, mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions...
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Under the new reporting system, gross water use includes both the applied water for urban and agricultural use, as well as that set aside for flow requirements to meet habitat and water quality needs.
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Here is water use in California per capita in 2008.
The lowest use was San Francisco county at 108 gallons per day. The highest use was Mono County at 470 gallons per day. We here in Ventura County used 213.4 gallons per day. Note that use includes swimming pools, tap water and agricultural inputs. This also only includes direct consumption (and doesn't account for water used to produce the products made elsewhere which we in turn consumer here). This is really a map of population density (reduced the per capita number) vs. agrigulture (the largest bulk consumer of water by far in our society).
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The phrase “the triple bottom line” was first coined in 1994 by John Elkington, the founder of a British consultancy called SustainAbility. His argument was that...
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This is a new contet for anyone intersted in trying to make their dorm rooms more sustianable.
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A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.
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Here's a look at some of the tweet and blog reactions to Mitt Romney's joke about addressing climate change.
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