Life-Cycle Assessment
My degree is in sustainability, and I would like to share the most valuable concept I learned through my years of studying at The University Of North Carolina’s Institute for the Environment. It is a tool actually, and its called a Life-Cycle Assessment or LCA for short. It’s a simple tool on the surface; you track the costs and impacts associated with doing something. It was designed for risk management, and is also known as a life-cycle analysis, cradle-to-grave, ecobalance and probably a few other things. You can apply an LCA to just about anything. While I will tie this back into Landscape Design and garden construction in the Brooklyn in the second half of the article, I will begin by explaining the concept and the process in more detail. (Image Credit: Solid Works)
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