Skip to content
Promote Forest Health for a Stable Bio-Economy Understand and Separate Wood Components Create and Commercialize New Bioproducts

FBRI Partners

Sylvatica

Norris
FBRI retained Sylvatica to introduce faculty and students to Life Cycle ssessment.

Life Cycle Assessment is gaining increased attention around the world as a quantitative and internationally standardized method for assessing the environmental impacts of products and policies and consumer behavior and choices. Life Cycle Assessment works with models of supply chains and product life cycles, which include the use of products as well as their fates after use, in land fill, incineration, composting, or recycling.

 

Sylvatica’s Greg Norris: “I am leading efforts to integrate and apply methods of environmental “Life Cycle Assessment” to evaluate in a holistic manner the environmental and resource impacts of forest bioproduct development in Maine and the Northeast. Every product leads to a "tree" of environmental impacts with hundreds of branches of processes that convert raw materials into goods and services and land. I use “Life Cycle Assessment” to estimate those impacts and design products and supply chains that meet our needs while we also place lighter demands on nature.

 

Sylvatica logo
 

Greg Norris founded Sylvatica in 1996 to bring the economic benefits of environmental consciousness to industries around the world. Sylvatica provides environmental and social impact consulting services to corporations, government departments, and non-profits around the globe.

NSF EPSCoR The University of Maine EPSCoR Department of Energy
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EPS-0554545 This project is supported by the Department of Energy EPSCoR program under award number DE-FG02-07ER46373