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EarthShift
provides both online and on-site training
in Life Cycle Assessment, Total Cost Assessment, Carbon
Footprinting, Building Science and for the tools that we provide
such as SimaPro and TCAce™.
Plus, we are always happy to customize and schedule a course to suit the
particular needs of the attendees. Please email
us with any questions or requests.
Courses
include:
Online
Courses
All
online classes are either two hours or three hours long with a 15 min.
break.
Cost:
$500 a session unless otherwise noted (Three or more attendees from an
organization receive a 10% discount).
To
register send us a copy of our completed registration
form.
Online
classes will be confirmed via email when minimum enrollment has been
met. Once confirmed, participants will be responsible
for payment. If participants need to cancel after the class is confirmed
they may make-up the class at later date.
For
full class descriptions -click on the name of the course below
Intro
to LCA
2.5 hr introductory course to methods of LCA |
- January
13, 2010
- March
30, 2010
- June
22, 2010
- October
12, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Applied
LCA in SimaPro
(2 part 6hr class)
For those new to LCA and SimaPro who have never used SimaPro |
- January
26 & 27, 2010
- April
6 & 7, 2010
- May
18 & 19, 2010
- July
13 & 14, 2010
- October
21 & 22, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
| Carbon
Footprinting |
- May
18, 2010
- July
20, 2010
- September
28, 2010
- November
9, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
End
of Life- Advanced
3 hr course on advanced modeling of end of life, recycling, etc |
- April
13, 2010
- October
5, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Impact
Assessment Methods
3 hr course on the major IAM's in SimaPro and how to choose your best
method |
- March
2, 2010
- June
1, 2010
- September
7, 2010
- November
30, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Creating
Impact Assessment Methods
3hr course on creating your own IAM |
- April
20, 2010
- July
27, 2010
- October
26, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Parameters
2hr course on building parameters in SimaPro |
- March
16, 2010
- June
29, 2010
- October
13,
2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Costing
& Social Impact
3hr course on how to model costing and social
impacts in SimaPro |
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9:00
am EST |
LCA
for Decision Makers
2 hr seminar to introduce organizations to the process and benefits
of using LCA as the cornerstone of their sustainabilty claims |
- January
19, 2010
- February
16, 2010
- March
30, 2010
- April
27, 2010
- June
17, 2010
- September
23, 2010
- December
9, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Recycling
in SimaPro
2 part course- 1st session/2hr, 2nd session/3hr on building recycling
scenarios in SimaPro, $850 |
- March
8 & 9, 2010
- May
24 & 25, 2010
- September
28 & 29, 2010
- December
7 & 8, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
ReCiPe
method
1.5hr course to introduce you to the new ReCiPe
Impact Assessment Method, only $75 |
- January
19, 2010
- February
16, 2010
- April
27, 2010
- June
17, 2010
- September
23, 2010
- December
9, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
Beyond
Building Green
2 hr course on the scientific principles that
dictate how a building performs over it's lifetime, $375 |
- December
15, 2009
- March
30, 2010
- June
15, 2010
- September
14, 2010
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1:00
pm EST |
LCA
for the Building Industry
3hr course to introduce the steps of an LCA, how it applies to the
building industry and how to use three tools, SimaPro, Athena's Eco-calculator
and Athena's Impact Estimator |
- February
3, 2010
- March
3, 2010
- April
1, 2010
- May
11, 2010
- June
2, 2010
- July
7, 2010
- September
1, 2010
- October
6, 2010
- November
10, 2010
- December
1, 2010
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1:00
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Courses
in
YELLOW
require that the student has completed one LCA project using the SimaPro
software.
Courses in
GREEN require that the student has previously
taken the Applied LCA in SimaPro courses or the Intro to LCA/SimaPro on-site
course or conducted projects to the equivalent.
On-site
Courses
In
person trainings are 1-2 days, usually from 9am - 5pm EST.
They are held in Portsmouth, NH and cost $1250 per day (unless otherwise
noted). Sign up a month ahead of time and pay only $1000.
*Classes will be canceled two weeks prior if there is a lack of registered
participants.*
Contact us for more details on group pricing or cutomized classes.
To register please complete our registration
form.
Life
Cycle Assessment (1 Day)
1 day in-depth look at LCA and how and why it is used
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Intro
to LCA in SimaPro (2 Days)
intensive training course on the LCA methodology and using
SimaPro. Our most required course! |
- Febuary
11 & 12, 2010
- March
10 & 11, 2010
- April
14 & 15, 2010
- May
26 & 27, 2010
- July
21 & 22, 2010
- September
2 & 3, 2010
- December
2 & 3, 2010
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Advanced
SimaPro- Modeling
1 day course including: End of Life, Parameters, Recycling
and Costing & Social Impacts
*see course descriptions for each subject's online course above* |
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Advanced
SimaPro- Interpretation
1 day course including: Impact Assessment Methods, Creating
IAMs, sensitivity and uncertainty
*see course descriptions for each subject's online course above* |
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Total
Cost Assessment(1st day) & TCAce(2nd Day)
1 day course on the Total Cost Assessment methodology with optional
2nd day on using the TCAce tool |
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Design
for Environment
2 day course on designing environmentally and socially conscience
products based on life cycle thinking |
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Toxicity
in LCA:working with USEtox
1 day course on the theory behind IAMs on toxicity (USEtox
prerequisite reading). Read more about
USEtox.. |
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| Umberto
Training |
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Courses in
GREEN require that the student has previously
taken the Applied LCA in SimaPro courses or the Intro to LCA/SimaPro on-site
course or conducted projects to the equivalent.
If
you don't see what you're looking for contact
us! We frequently add classes to accomodate our clients' schedules
and needs.
Ask
EarthShift
In addition
to our training, we are also offering a monthly half-hour Ask
EarthShift online session. This is a good chance to ask those
"how to" questions or to listen in on others questions or suggestions.
It would also be a great way establish an LCA/SimaPro user group.
The session
is open to the first 15 participants to log on. To join-click on the date
you are joining at the time of the meeting.
Ask EarthShift Meetings:
Jan
22 @ 1pm EST (Topic: US-EI SimaPro database)
Feb
8 @ 1pm EST (Topic: using LCA for EPD's, eco-labeling, &
marketing)
March
15 @ 1pm EST (Topic: Total Cost Assessment)
April
19 @ 1pm EST (Topic: Critical Review)
May
17 @ 1pm EST (Topic: What's new in SimaPro 7.2)
Feel free
to email us with any questions
regarding training.
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“Thank
you for the excellent training! I think the entire team found
it beneficial to learn not only the SimaPro software, but also
the
thought process behind the decisions.”
Brian Hilton, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, RIT
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