Our mission is to improve Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment through expertise, community building, and innovative software.
"..We found [the LCA study] to be immensely useful and critical to some of the key decisions we made this year."
—Claudia Richardson, Patagonia, Inc.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to improve the quality, transparency, and robustness of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment through expertise, community building, and innovative software.
We envision a broadly interoperable sustainability assessment data landscape that enables our staff and our clients to build and interact with models easily, make enhancements quickly, and share their results with collaborators or with the public, without the use of specialized software.
Brandon Kuczenski, PhD
He is an industrial ecologist specializing in life cycle assessment methods and software. His main objectives are to improve the accessibility, transparency and reproducibility of LCA studies through the development of open software. His research includes novel computational methods, as well as seminal case studies on waste management and recycling systems, green chemistry applications, packaging and consumer products. His current interest is in privacy and data sharing in LCA.
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2001)
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2008)
Kyle Meisterling, PhD
He is an experienced LCA practitioner and sustainability science researcher. He has been an author or co-author of several highly-cited publications on fuel cycles, food systems, and transportation options. His work has included a deep-dive into the environmental implications of biomass use, including biomass waste utilization. Kyle has worked with corporations, national energy associations, and regulators at the state and federal levels. His current research focuses on developing science-based, quantitative metrics with which to compare and optimize management for sustainability.
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Brown University (2001)
PhD, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (2011)