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This course meets on-line on Tuesdays (June 1, 8, 15, 22) at 1:00 PM Pacific Time for 60-90 minutes.

Instructor: Thomas Gloria, PhD, Boston

This is an introductory course on life cycle assessment. Participants will learn the steps involved and complete a simple life cycle assessment in a business simulation using an Excel spreadsheet.  You will gain an understanding of the scope, challenges and possibilities in applying life cycle assessment to decision-making processes.  This is a great introductory course for:

• sustainability professionals wondering if LCA would be a good field to get into
• sustainability practitioners who may need to hire a firm to do a detailed LCA and need to know enough about the process to manage the project
• sustainability professionals who need an introduction to LCA before taking the ‘deep dive’ into the certification training.

This workshop is a prerequisite for the LCA certification training that ISSP hopes to offer later (although experienced LCA professionals can ‘test out’ of this course).  We will not cover commercial LCA software tools such as SimaPro and GaBi and is not sufficient to pass the American Center for LCA (ACLCA), LCA Certified Professional (LCACP) exam ( http://www.lcacenter.org/certification.html).

Sign up for the class here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/488630507/bgi/

Instructor Biography

Thomas P. Gloria, Ph.D.is Managing Director of Industrial Ecology Consultants. He has more than 19 years of professional experience in sustainability management consulting and information technology engineering design. His work encompasses product innovation; LCA; LCM; methods and policy implications GHG inventories; and energy efficiency feasibility analysis.

The “2-day technical seminar on toxicity aspects in LCA and specifically the USEtox model” given on April 8 and 9 at DTU, which was also broadcast live via web streaming, has been recorded and is now available via video streaming any time for you or your colleagues to follow. Just as if you were participating directly via web (except the possibility to pose questions) you can see the slides, the presenter, and the chat window. Both, the slides in pdf format and the complete streaming of both days are available here:

 http://www.3r.env.dtu.dk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38

 The next occasion to follow the USEtox course as given on the second day of these two days will be in connection with the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting on Sunday 23rd of May in Seville, Spain. The registration to this event is handled by SETAC directly (http://seville.setac.eu/short_courses/?contentid=203&pr_id=180 course no. 10).

Comments and further suggestions should be directed to Ralph Rosenbaum at DTU.  Contact information can be found HERE

This course meets on-line on Tuesdays (June 1, 8, 15, 22) at 1:00 PM Pacific Time for 60-90 minutes.

Instructor: Thomas Gloria, PhD, Boston

This is an introductory course on life cycle assessment. Participants will learn the steps involved and complete a simple life cycle assessment in a business simulation using an Excel spreadsheet.  You will gain an understanding of the scope, challenges and possibilities in applying life cycle assessment to decision-making processes.  This is a great introductory course for:

• sustainability professionals wondering if LCA would be a good field to get into
• sustainability practitioners who may need to hire a firm to do a detailed LCA and need to know enough about the process to manage the project
• sustainability professionals who need an introduction to LCA before taking the ‘deep dive’ into the certification training.

This workshop is a prerequisite for the LCA certification training that ISSP hopes to offer later (although experienced LCA professionals can ‘test out’ of this course).  We will not cover commercial LCA software tools such as SimaPro and GaBi and is not sufficient to pass the American Center for LCA (ACLCA), LCA Certified Professional (LCACP) exam ( http://www.lcacenter.org/certification.html).

Sign up for the class here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/488630507/bgi/

Instructor Biography

Thomas P. Gloria, Ph.D.is Managing Director of Industrial Ecology Consultants. He has more than 19 years of professional experience in sustainability management consulting and information technology engineering design. His work encompasses product innovation; LCA; LCM; methods and policy implications GHG inventories; and energy efficiency feasibility analysis.