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Seeds4Green: an Open Collaborative Internet Platform for LCA Studies

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Hélène Teulon Benjamin Canaguier

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Who is Gingko 21?

Gingko 21 is a consultancy company dedicated to LCA and eco-innovation.

We believe that making LCA knowledge available to a wider public should help promote sustainable goods and services.

[email protected]

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What is Seeds4Green ?

A collaborative site to gather documents linked to environmental sustainability of products and services

Dedicated to professionals willing to better assess this impact

To support LCA, green purchasing or Eco-design

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Which Questions Does it Answer?

Natural or artificial Christmas Trees: Which has less impact?

Is there any public study on strawberries?

Who has ever worked on a LCA of garden furniture?

What are the relevant environmental criteria to ecodesign a T-shirt?

Are there any existing ecolabelling schemes or EPD related to TVsets?

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Example of Content

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Categories

Contents recorded by categories

Next Slide: Electronics/IT category

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Examples from Category Electronics/IT

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Advanced Research

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Search Results

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Key Benefits

Potentially the widest LCA documents database: more than 250 contents available today, and much more if we all contribute

Quick access to detailed analysisAdvanced research functionsCollective intelligence at workValidation by the community

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How Does Seeds4Green Work?

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How You Can Help

When browsing the internet and finding an interesting document, save it on Seeds4Green

=> you’ll find it easily later on

=> you help colleagues in their job

=> we all contribute to rising the level of knowledge on environmental impacts of products

You might have ideas on how to improve Seeds4Green

=> we are keen to exchange with you!

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Perspectives

For us Seeds4Green is intended to remain a free service

We have many ideas on how to improve the platform. We are looking for both sponsors and partners to help us develop it further!

This project was submitted to the board of Life Cycle Initiative and is under evaluation for support

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Contact information

Hélène Teulon

33 6 10 07 25 62

[email protected]

Benjamin Canaguier

33 134 52 22 15

[email protected]

Any questions ?

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Technology

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