March 2025 The Shift e-newsletter
CILCA | ACLCA Institute | New Courses on Data Visualization | Upcoming Training
EarthShift Global Presenting at the April 2025 CILCA Conference
Several members of the EarthShift Global team will be attending and presenting at CILCA, the international conference on life cycle assessment in Latin America, to be held April 7-11, 2025. Presentation topics include Native Maize in Mexico (Mariana Ortega Ramirez), Modeling and Environmental Impact Comparison between ecoinvent and Agrifootprint LCA Databases (Joel Bonales Revuelta), an exploration of SaaS software (César Camou), Handprinting (Mariana Ortega Ramirez), and Enabling Anticipatory LCA for non-expert LCA users (Amalia Sojo).
Information and demonstrations of Matter PD, our new LCA software for product design, will also be featured. If you are interested in learning more about Matter PD or the presentations, contact us here.
EarthShift Global Presenting at the April 2025 LCA Institute
The ACLCA offers industry leading expertise through its LCA Institute. This year, the Institute is offering a series of online based courses from April 15-18; a variety of registration options are designed to encourage online participation as well as asynchronous viewing.
Miguel Hernandez, EarthShift Global Senior Sustainability Analyst will be co-presenting with Tom Etheridge on "Using LCA to Estimate Product Environmental Impacts." Tess Konnovitch, EarthShift Global Data Visualization Specialist will be presenting "Foundations of Data Visualization in Life Cycle Assessment."
To explore the many offerings and register, click here.
EarthShift Global Training & Coaching Bundles
EarthShift Global offers expert training and coaching bundles to make it easy for you to get the training and coaching support you need. We have trained LCA teams of all sizes on all of the major LCA software platforms. If your LCA is already in-house and/or you are bringing your LCA in-house and need support, we can help train and coach you and your team.
We offer a standard bundle that includes three fundamental LCA courses for up to 10 attendees as well as 10 hours of coaching. We also offer customized bundles based on your particular needs. To explore the possibilities, contact us here.
EarthShift Global Now Offers Courses on Data Visualization
We are thrilled to offer three new courses focused on data visualization and communication of LCA results. All courses will be taught by Tess Konnovitch; Tess has extensive experience with science based communications and teaching to scientific focused audiences.

Course descriptions and registration can be found here.
Upcoming Online Training
Handling Recycling in Life Cycle Assessment
March 4, 2025
Fundamentals of Data Visualization (1 hour, free)
March 5, 2025
Sustainable Return on Investment (S-ROI)
March 12, 2025
Integrating Sustainability Into the Organization
March 19-20, 2025
Sustainability in Package Design
March 26-27, 2025
Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment
April 2-3, 2025
Data Visualization in Life Cycle Assessment
April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025