61: Leveraging the Life Cycle Assessment for Useful Carbon Accounting with Professor Kate Simonen

An episode of the Reversing Climate Change podcast, hosted by Carbon Removal Strategies LLC, titled "61: Leveraging the Life Cycle Assessment for Useful Carbon Accounting with Professor Kate Simonen" was published on February 19, 2019 and runs 39 minutes.

February 19, 2019 ·39m · Reversing Climate Change

Summary

The processes of building material extraction, manufacturing, transportation and construction are ALL responsible for carbon emissions. So, how do you compare these embodied costs to make the best choices around which materials to use? How do you know whether it’s better for the environment to retrofit an existing building or build a new, passive one? How do you determine whether a building truly qualifies as zero-carbon? The primary tool we use to measure environmental impact is the life cycle assessment

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