Brown Bag Webinars
Free webinars on LCA and sustainability topics
EarthShift Global is pleased to announce a series of free sustainability 'Brown Bag' webinars. These webinars covering a wide range of topics and are delivered by leaders in their respective fields. Each webinar is typically held from 1-2 PM Eastern time with a presentation followed by a Q&A Session.
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Upcoming Webinar:
Proven Approaches to Maximize Your LCA ROI
Date: June 13, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:00pm EST
Presenters:
Karen Martinsen Fleming, EarthShift Global CMO
John Rooks, EarthShift Global Senior Research & Culture Advisor
Description:
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a valuable scientific methodology for measuring the impacts of a product or process. The present global emphasis on climate change is driving significant interest in LCA, and, while important, there is so much more to be gained from LCA beyond measuring carbon emissions!
By considering the entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to disposal, an LCA enables organizations of all sizes and types to understand its impacts and where the greatest impacts occur. A well crafted LCA does more than measure carbon emissions - the results can be leveraged to identify opportunities for innovation, reduce waste, manage supply chains, improve resource efficiencies, design new products, craft sales & marketing materials, engage employees, and more.
In this webinar, taught by two highly experienced ESG sustainability professionals, we will discuss proven approaches to maximizing the return on your LCA investment.
Presenter Bios:
Karen Martinsen Fleming has over 25 years of marketing, product development, strategy, and business management experience and has been active in sustainable business for over two decades. Her career includes leadership positions at Stonyfield Farm and Seventh Generation where she was responsible for the brand foundation, strategy, and national rollout of these two widely recognized leaders in sustainable business.
She also has extensive teaching experience in sustainable business, marketing and entrepreneurship. She served as Professor of sustainable business and director of the Sustainable MBA program at Green Mountain College, the nation’s leading college for sustainability, and as President of the Harvard Business School Green Alumni Network.
Karen supports ESG clients with strategy, marketing, communications, new product development, reporting, materiality assessments, and organizational design.
She earned an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Dartmouth College.
John Rooks approaches sustainability with a cultural lens. He has worked with companies of various size from Fortune 10 to start-ups helping them understand sustainability in a cultural context, and unlock the power that comes from an aligned corporate culture.
John has a degree in Writing and Cultural Theory from PennWest Clarion, and is a frequent writer and professional speaker on the intersection of sustainability and culture.
John has completed profoundly revealing in-depth research into consumer and other stakeholder beliefs and actions around sustainability. This research includes ethnographic explorations into our relationships with the things we buy (and discard) employee sentiment with corporate actions, and supplier actions following standard corporate sustainability surveys. This culture-first lens is critical to managing our impacts on society and the environment and is an integral part of double materiality assessments.
John’s approach to sustainability results in more robust employee attraction and retention programs, more compliant supply chains, and an aligned corporate ecosystem that is required to reach aggressive and critical sustainability goals.
Past Brown Bag Webinars:
You can access recordings of prior webinars on the EarthShift Global Official YouTube channel and via the links provided below.
Use of LCA in North American Policy
January 2024
Surveying the Environmental Impact of Alternative Proteins via LCA
December 2023
Supply Chain Management for Circular Economy in Latin America
October 2023
Benchmarking, Storytelling, and Mitigation: How Spiber, a Cutting Edge Biotechnology Company, Applies LCA
September 2023
Sustainable by Design
July 2023
LCA In Reality from Data to Decisions by Kiyotada Hayashi PhD
June 2023
An Industrial Ecosystem at Work
May 2023
Measuring the Social What, How, Who, and Why
April 2023
PART 2 Understanding Biogenic Carbon: The Science and Application of Biogenic Carbon in Life Cycle Assessment
March 2023 - Part 2
PART 1 Understanding Biogenic Carbon: The Science and Application of Biogenic Carbon in Life Cycle Assessment
February 2023 - Part 1
Impacts of Plastic Litter in LCA: Developments & New Findings
January 2023
LCA for Emerging Technologies
December 2022
Circular Design in Electronics Industry
September 2022
Advancing SMART Futures for Global Sustainability
August 2022
Five Misperceptions Surrounding the Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic
July 2022
CELAVI Framework: Current & Future Capabilities & Applications
June 2022
Using Planetary Boundaries with LCA for Absolute Sustainability Assessment and Target-setting
April 2022
Sustainability Focused Innovation
March 2022
Why Do I Need A Critical Review
February 2022
LCA Study of the Substitution Policy in Colombia
January 2022
Paths to Carbon Neutrality Panel Discussion featuring: Navitas Semiconductor, Interface, HP Inc.
September 2021
Sustainable Water Mgmt for Decarbonizing Fossil Power Gen by Tim Skone, DOE
July 2021
Anticipatory LCA Approach to Improve Climate from Emerging Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies: NREL
June 2021
HP Taking LCA One Step Further by Tom Etheridge
May 2021
Balancing Creativity & Data, Making Sustainability Easier: TrueNorth Collective
April 2021
Packaging LCA in the Automotive Industry: Cummins
February 2021
Gaining Traction with your Sustainability Initiative: WholeWorks
January 2021
Tackling the Plastic Pollution Crisis: WWF
November 2020
Circularity for Packaging - Past, Present and Future: PTIS
October 2020
Reconciling Values and Facts in Comparative LCA by Valentina Prado
August 2020
Apportionment Lowering Energy Investments: Eastman Energy
July 2020
LCA of an Innovative Shelf Life Extension Technology: Apeel Sciences
May 2020
LCA In the Sub-National Context: Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
April 2020
Ice Core Tales of Climate Change from Opposite Ends of Earth: UNH EOS
March 2020
Earth Stories & Why They Matter
February 2020
Communicating Sustainability Using Storytelling
November 2019
Lifecycle of Building Materials & Other Embodied Carbon: Thornton Tomasetti
October 2019
Environmental Impacts of Alluvial Gold Mining, Peruvian Amazon: PELCAN
September 2019
The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings: stok
May 2019
LCA and Biomimicry: Arizona State University
April 2019
CO2 Sequestration by Methane Eating Bacteria: Stanford University
March 2019
Anticipatory LCA Explorative Comparative Design with Lise Laurin
February 2019
Anticipatory LCA 101 with Valentina Prado
January 2019
Eliminating the Idea of Waste with TerraCycle
November 2018
Can We Reverse Climate Change: Interface
October 2018
Goals & Tools to Drive Sustainability: Dow
September 2018
Sustainability Services: Waste Management
June 2018