Environmental Product Declarations - The Next Generation of Eco-labels? A presentation at the Public Interest Environmental Conference in Gainesville, FL. By Wes Ingwersen. February 26, 2010. Global Type III Environmental Product Declarations Network http://www.gednet.org/ (The guidebook explains the entire EPD process in detail) Eco Smes comparison of three ISO label types (I,II, and III) http://www.ecosmes.net/cm/navContents?l=EN&navID=ecoLabels&subNavID=1&pagID=1 On the following pages you can read more about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the evaluation technique upon which LCA is based. LCA 101 (US EPA LCA pages) http://www.epa.gov/ord/NRMRL/lcaccess/lca101.html UNEP Life Cycle Initiative http://jp1.estis.net/sites/lcinit/default.asp?site=lcinit Life Cycle Thinking in the European Union http://lct.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ |