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The goal of the LCA Digital Commons Project is to provide an open access, prototype life cycle assessment database and tools. The project will focus initially on making USDA data more accessible to the LCA community. The resulting decision-support tools will benefit researchers, policy-makers and industry process engineers. If you have access to our prototype applications, click the LCI Database tab to enter. To learn more about the project click the "About the Project" tab above.

Recent Articles About the Project

Cooper, J.S., E. Kahn “Commentary on issues in data quality analysis in life cycle assessment.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Volume 17, Number 4 (2012)

Cooper, J.S., M. Noon, E. Kahn, “Parameterization in Life Cycle Assessment Inventory Data: review of current use and the representation of uncertainty.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Volume 17, Number 6, Pages 689-695 (2012)

Cooper, J.S., E. Kahn, R. Ebel, “Sampling error in U.S. field crop unit process data for Life Cycle Assessment.” Accepted to the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2012)

Cooper, J. “Data uncertainty and quality: emerging issues for Life Cycle Assessment data and databases ” Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, May 16-18, Boston, MA (2012)

Kahn, E., J.S. Cooper. “Variability and Uncertainty in Consumption of Freshwater for Field Crop Life Cycle Assessment. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, May 16-18, Boston, MA (2012)

LCA Digital Commons Featured at Rio+20

The United States will announce its participation as a founding partner in the launch of the UNEP Sustainable Public Procurement Initiative. The announcement will take place on June 17, 2012, at the United Nations side event, “Building Markets for Greener Products”. As a first measure, the United States will contribute the expertise and information developed in the implementation of Executive Order 13514. The LCA Digital Commons will be featured as a US contribution . Dr. Elise Golan will make the presentation. Dr. Golan is the Director for Sustainable Development in USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist.

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Digital Commons at LCA XI

The National Agricultural Library team will review the project vision and goals; and demonstrate the prototype database at the LCAXI conference in Chicago at a special session on Tuesday, October 3 @ 3:30 PM. Click here for more information.

Usability Survey

Thanks to everyone participating in our usability survey. We expect a new release of the database application within the next few days which will incorporate many of the suggestions from the survey.

Please send us an email if you are interested in participating in the survey.

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