Tag: climate earth
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Overcoming scale and cost considerations for high-volume EPD implementation
Rick Betita, director of research at San Francisco-based Climate Earth, offered this presentation on “Overcoming Scale and Cost Considerations for High-Volume EPD Implementation” at the LCA XIII Conference held Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2013 in Orlando, FL. Related: “Understanding Environmental Product Declarations” by Central Concrete, Sustainable Industries, Sept. 10, 2013 “ABCs of EPDs” by Climate Earth’s…
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Understanding Environmental Product Declarations
This summer, Sustainable Industries launched a three-part series on Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs – specifically looking at what’s new, what’s now, and what’s next. The first article in the series, “ABCs of EPDs” by Climate Earth co-founder Chris Erickson, provided readers with must-know information on EPDs — what they are, how they are…
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ABCs of EPDs
A major tenant of corporate responsibility is transparency. Corporations are under increasing pressure to understand, report and manage social and environmental externalities – side effects of business operations that businesses have not traditionally been obligated to pay for, or even account for. In a world of increasing demand for transparency, shouldn’t every company be…
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Central Concrete announces first Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for concrete mixes in the U.S.
SAN JOSE —Central Concrete, a U.S. Concrete Inc. (Nasdaq: USCR) company that delivers low CO2 concrete to the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced that it is the first ready …