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 held from 1-2 PM Eastern time with a presentation followed by a Q&A Session.
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Upcoming Webinars:
The Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and Visualization (CELAVI) Framework:
Current and Future Capabilities and Applications

Date: June 16, 2022
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Julien Walzberg and Rebecca Hanes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Description:
Circular Economy (CE) aims at decoupling human activities from economic growth and resource use. While CE economic and environmental benefits are often touted by its proponents, increased circularity and improved sustainability do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. The Circular Economy Lifecycle Assessment and Visualization (CELAVI) framework simulates the transition of renewable energy technology supply chains towards circularity and quantifies spatially explicit environmental impacts and supply chain costs. Using wind blade end-of-life (EOL) management as a case study, this presentation will highlight CELAVI’s features. Furthermore, envisioned extension to the framework could improve the stakeholder decision model by accounting for logistical and other factors. The CELAVI framework could be leveraged to answer crucial questions regarding renewables EOL management.
Presenter Bios:

Julien Walzberg is in NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center (SEAC) where he works on various circular economy projects. His postdoc research – carried out within SEAC as well – focused on applying agent-based modeling to analyze circular economy opportunities for various technologies. He is also an alumni of the Ellen Macarthur Foundation “From linear to circular” program.

Rebecca Hanes is an engineer in SEAC working in the broad field of sustainability-related decision support. She uses a wide range of modeling methodologies to represent large-scale industrial and agricultural systems and explore how those systems can meet humanity’s material and energy needs while causing less harmful environmental and other impacts.
Past Brown Bag Webinars:
You can access recordings of prior webinars on the EarthShift Global Official YouTube channel and via the links provided below.

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

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