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American Center for
Life Cycle Assessment

What is ACLCA?

The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to build capacity and knowledge of Environmental LCA among industry, government and NGOs.  The organization is part of The Institute for Environmental Research & Education (IERE), which performs and disseminates fact-based research for the use in the development of responsible environmental policy, programs and decisions.

LCA of Food 2014

ACLCA will host the LCA Food Conference in 2014. 
This will be the first time that the conference will be held outside of Europe.

Meta-Analysis of LCA Just Published

A special issue of JIE on Meta-Analysis of LCA has just been published, for the full report click here. For more information about the LCA Harmonization project please click here. 

LCA XII - Call for Abstracts Now Open

Abstracts and Student Poster Contest Due TODAY, May 14th
Student Volunteering and Room Sharing Now Open. 

Requirements for Taking the LCACP Exam

Date: June 15
Time: 10:30 am (PDT)
This webinar will look into the requirements needed to take the LCACP exam. Discussion will focus on the content of the exam and the prerequisites needed in order to be successful. 
Please register here.  

Sustainability and the US EPA (NAS)

The National Academy of Sciences just published a 286 page report on how the U.S. EPA might best move forward to support sustainability. The use of LCA was highly recommended. The entire report can be downloaded for free at