Environmental Impact

Evaluating Environmental Performance: A Case Study in the Flat Panel Display Industry develops a four step framework for evaluating environmental performance and explores how a manufacturer of flat pa...

At 7.1 million volumes, the University of Michigan (UM) Library is one of the country's largest.  Its Digital Library Initiative has been at the forefront of promoting the use of electronically p...

Stonyfield Farm's (www.stonyfield.com) concern for the environment prompted it to consider the impacts of its refrigerated yogurt product delivery beyond the traditional focus on container disposal...

Life cycle inventory and cost analysis tools applied to milk packaging offer important guidelines for achieving better environmental design and management of these systems.  Life cycle solid w...

The United States food system, from field to table, is at a crossroads for change. Improving the sustainability of this complex system requires a thorough understanding of the relationships between fo...

As concern over the environmental impacts of residential house construction grows, many researchers are beginning to use life cycle assessment as a means to quantify natural resources consumption, and...

The Center for Sustainable Systems CSS (formerly the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education, established by the U.S. EPA in 1991) works towards educating college students, faculty, ...

This study has three goals: - To increase the understanding of material flows moving through the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan; - To develop a methodology by which community leaders may analyze ...