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From First to Future: How EPDs Are Reshaping Concrete

From First to Future: How EPDs Are Reshaping Concrete

by Zeenah Ziino | Oct 15, 2025 | Viewpoint

Personal reflections on 14 years delivering EPDs by Chris Erickson, Founder and Chairman, Climate Earth In 2011, Climate Earth set out with a bold idea: to automate Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for concrete. At the time, EPDs were barely on the...
Deloitte: Procurement Can Reduce Embodied Carbon in Public Projects

Deloitte: Procurement Can Reduce Embodied Carbon in Public Projects

by Zeenah Ziino | Aug 22, 2025 | Embodied Carbon Spotlight, Feature

by John O’Brien, SJ Maxted, Kira Rosi-Schumacher, and Kirsten Gudiel In February 2025, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) began requiring contractors to submit Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for concrete, asphalt, and concrete masonry...
The CLF Benchmark Explorer

The CLF Benchmark Explorer

by Zeenah Ziino | Aug 13, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, News, Research Report

The CLF Benchmark Explorer, created to better visualize the data created by the WBLCA Benchmark Study v2, consists of a set of customizable box and whisker plots for use in design, research, and education. About the Dashboard The CLF Benchmark Explorer is a tool...
Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States

by Zeenah Ziino | Aug 13, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, News, Research Report

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States, a collaboration between the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), RMI, and the University of Washington (UW) Life Cycle Lab, provides an assessment of embodied carbon from US construction materials and explores pathways...
Washington State Carbon Emissions Estimation: 2025 – 2050

Washington State Carbon Emissions Estimation: 2025 – 2050

by Zeenah Ziino | Jul 29, 2025 | All Resources, Authored by CLF, CLF Featured Research, News, Research Report

Emissions from the operations of buildings and infrastructure are significant, well-understood contributors to national and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the contribution of embodied carbon—emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation,...
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