Consulting Services include:

• Custom web based training Seminars
• Screening Level LCA
• Environmental Business Consulting
• On Demand Sustainability Guidance
• Comparative LCAs with Critical Review
• LCA peer reviews
• Environmental Product Declarations
• Assistance with Eco-labels & Wal-mart Scorecard
• Corporate Impact Assessment Methods
• Total Cost Assessment Facilitation Workshop
• Change Management
• Custom LCA Tool Development 
• SimaPro LCA Wizard Development

We provide an initial consultation free of charge to discuss your situation and assess how we might be of service to you.
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Custom Web Based Seminar (Introduction to LCA for Corporate Decision Makers): Successful integration of Life Cycle Assessment into your sustainability program requires corporate buy in at the executive level. Get started with our two hour seminar designed to quickly get your executives up to speed on LCA and learn the value that LCA can bring to your sustainability initiatives

Screening Level LCA: Gain a high level view of your product’s environmental footprints with a screening level LCA. For a relatively low investment you can gain valuable insight into areas of concern and find your golden threads of opportunity. Knowing where your biggest impacts originate allows you to focus your investment dollars and maximize the reduction of your environmental footprint.

Environmental Business Consulting: Using your screening level LCA, EarthShift can next help you leverage your knowledge to develop your sustainability initiatives. We will develop programs that maximize your return on investment while building your internal capacity for implementing them.

On Demand Sustainability Guidance: Your sustainability program is now implemented, but perhaps you’re unclear about a step in a specific project. Let our consultants be "on-call" for your team. EarthShift offers guidance every step of the way, and can set up web/phone based meetings on an as-needed basis.

Comparative LCA with Critical Review for Marketing: Are you now ready to make a marketing claim and state that one product has less environmental impacts than another? Then ISO Standards require that your comparative LCA is critically reviewed by a third party. EarthShift can perform or help you perform an extensive LCA that refines your screening LCA and provides a report for critical review.

LCA Critical Review: EarthShift’s LCA consultants are well rehearsed in the scientific and technical components of conducting an ISO compliant LCA and providing you with the highest quality critical review. We will make sure that your LCA study conforms to the standards for making marketing claims.

Environmental Product Declaration: As demand for environmentally preferable products has increased, concerns from consumers over “greenwashing” and unsubstantiated claims by manufacturers have also increased. Publishing an EPD will substantiate your environmental marketing claims and provide an ecolabel (ISO 14025) that consumers can accurately compare products with. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the science behind these EPDs which must meet and comply with specific methodological requirements that are defined in Product Category Rules (PCR). In addition to complying with PCRs, EPDs are also verified by third-party expert panels to ensure their accuracy prior to publication. When your company is ready to publish an EPD, EarthShift can guide you through the process.

Assistance with EcoLabels and the Wal-Mart Scorecard: Are you trying to compare packaging designs in the Wal-Mart scorecard, but find your new material missing? Would you like to receive the energy innovation credit? Perhaps your customers are demanding that you meet the requirements of a Type I Ecolabel such as Green Seal? EarthShift can work with you to compare packaging designs using advanced LCA models to meet your label and scorecard compliance requirements.

Corporate Impact Assessment Method Development: As your sustainability program grows you can develop a custom impact assessment method that reflects the goals and values of your company. Impact assessment methods measure environmental impact categories such as acidification, VOC emissions, energy consumption, global warming or water usage. A custom report can incorporate a range of concerns and reflect these as a weighted score allowing for simple comparisons.

Total Cost Assessment (TCA) Facilitation Workshop: With a strong environmental sustainability program in place, you can now implement TCA, a forward-looking decision tool that incorporates scenario analysis of broad social, economic and environmental risks and rewards into one simple financial report that includes the most probable return on investment. Looking through the lens of your stakeholders you can compare investment opportunities justifying long term planning and commitments to socially and environmentally responsible corporate or institutional activity. EarthShift has pioneered TCA workshop facilitation and can help you get started.

Total Cost Assessment Number Crunching: Sometimes the difficulty isn’t in facilitation, it’s in crunching the numbers to come up with results that make sense. We use TCAce to give you both expected and probabilistic results, using Monte Carlo analysis to uncover the impact of uncertainty on the model.

Change Management: Like the quality movement in the late 80s, if we are to be successful integrating the green movement of today into our companies, we need to incorporate the environment into every facet of the corporation. EarthShift brings experience that bridges the span of quality and the environment, bringing back successful change management techniques and modifying them to apply to this new challenge.

Custom LCA Tool Development: Want the ease of an LCA tool made specifically for your organization? Let us build one for you. From FoodPrints™ to PackagePrints™, EarthShift develops tools that meet your needs with custom front-ends that are user friendly and back-ends that provide the robust LCA methodology.

SimaPro LCA Wizard Development: Want to customize SimaPro with a Wizard that allows manufacturing and engineering experts to quickly and easily build an LCA, using familiar terms and units? Results can guide design for the environment, packaging and logistics decisions, and many other decisions related to environmental impact.