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Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a quarter of the EU's total CO₂ emissions in 2022....

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Automotive Sustainability

From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive

To all the LCA enthusiasts and sustainability experts out there -– this one is for you. Let's take a short ride down memory lane, looking at the...

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Automotive Sustainability

Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road

When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry in particular. The accelerating concern for climate...

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LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights

In the pursuit of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a powerful tool for evaluating the environmental impact of products,...

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Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, have become a significant global concern due to their prevalence and potential health and environmental...

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Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a...

From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive

From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive

To all the LCA enthusiasts and sustainability experts out there -– this one is for you. Let's take...

Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road

Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road

When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry...

LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights

LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights

In the pursuit of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a powerful tool for...

Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, have become a significant global concern due to their...

Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management

Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management

In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded...

What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?

What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?

There is a wide range of potential benefits, clearer regulations, policies, as well as urgency (see...

Breathing Life into Compliance

Breathing Life into Compliance

In the dynamic world of industrial production, compliance and regulatory conformity are crucial. On...

Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS

Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS

The Catena-X automotive network has achieved a significant milestone in standardizing the...

Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions

Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions

Sustainability Optimization Umberto supports companies in improving their environmental performance...

Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?

Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?

In the iPoint Sustainability & Compliance Trend Study 2022, we have gained many valuable insights....

Green speed? This is how important sustainability and CO2 reduction targets are for the automotive industry

Green speed? This is how important sustainability and CO2 reduction targets are for the automotive industry

The world is changing faster than ever before and the automotive industry is at a turning point. At...

CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence

CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence

Sustainability in Discrete Manufacturing: Capture, Analyse, Report and Optimise. Is sustainability...

Surprising survey results on compliance and sustainability in the automotive industry

Surprising survey results on compliance and sustainability in the automotive industry

The iPoint Compliance & Sustainability Trend Survey is one of the world's largest surveys offering...

A "Paper Tiger" gets its Teeth

The EU is getting tough: CSRD. The EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 - to achieve this goal,...

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

The key to net-zero is found in the supply chain

"Companies simply cannot deliver as they want."

"Companies are faced with a major problem: They simply cannot deliver as they want - there are too...

Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.

Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in production in the manufacturing industry and...

The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022

The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022

Surprisingly, companies worldwide, especially in Asia, increasingly view sustainability and...

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the...

How companies benefit from circular economy

How companies benefit from circular economy

Converting a company to a circular economy is an important step but many business leaders aren't...

Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development

Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development

Considering aspects of the circular economy right from the product design stage is the most...

How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy

How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy

The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in...

How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy

How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy

In addition to activities of legislative bodies, industry itself has set out on a path towards...

Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE

Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE

Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product...

Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy

Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy

Whether climate protection, circular economy, or resource efficiency, without transparent value and...

Digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy

Digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy

The increased use of digital technologies is considered as a key enabler for a more sustainable and...

Digital battery passports to enable circular battery ecosystems in Europe

Digital battery passports to enable circular battery ecosystems in Europe

The industry driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a circular economy has...

The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy

The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy

The concept of the circular economy is gaining more and more prominence on the agendas of...

Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE

Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE

Data collection is the first step on the road to successful product compliance and sustainability...

iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation

iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation

iPoint and BASF are collaborating on the topic of carbon footprint to drive the standardized...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study

Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study

The world’s largest sustainability and compliance trends survey entered its fourth round, with over...

Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy

Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy

The concept of circular economy is of great interest to companies since it provides a framework to...

New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry

New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry

With SCIP database being open to submission for one year now and data finally being disseminated...

German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation

German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation

The obligation for EU based entities to report data on SVHC containing products to the SCIP...

To Recycle or Not to Recycle – PVC Cable Waste is the Question

To Recycle or Not to Recycle – PVC Cable Waste is the Question

Recycling – it’s the magic word when the ill-informed think “environmental friendliness”....

Using blockchain to achieve the SDGs and solve social challenges

Using blockchain to achieve the SDGs and solve social challenges

Insights into the INATBA Blockchain for Social Impact Report

SCIP Dissemination Portal now live

SCIP Dissemination Portal now live

Ever since January 2021, when the reporting of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in articles...

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: A Spotlight on Finance

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: A Spotlight on Finance

A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...

Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings

Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings

by Lukas Stumpf, Josef-Peter Schöggl, Rupert J. Baumgartner

Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry

Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry

The pandemic crisis heavily influenced the year 2020, which likely also impacted iPoint’s Trends...

Sustainability Reporting Directive

Sustainability Reporting Directive

A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...

Discover the iPoint Suite

Discover the iPoint Suite

The iPoint Suite offers solutions for the entire product life cycle – from design to production and...

Meeting SCIP Reporting Requirements in the Electronics Industry

Meeting SCIP Reporting Requirements in the Electronics Industry

Since 2003, the electronics industry sector has gained experience reporting RoHS (Restriction on...

4 Months of SCIP reporting obligation – what are the experiences so far?

4 Months of SCIP reporting obligation – what are the experiences so far?

The obligation to report products that are put on the EU market and contain of SVHCs (Substances of...

Case Study: MFCA in Industrial Filter Production – Reducing the Use of Resources in Textile Filter Systems

Case Study: MFCA in Industrial Filter Production – Reducing the Use of Resources in Textile Filter Systems

ifu Hamburg GmbH, member of iPoint Group, HTW Berlin and UKOM jointly supported SMEs in using the ...

Leveling the Pitch: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation in the EU

Leveling the Pitch: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation in the EU

In March 2021, the European Parliament adopted the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) report on...

Duty of Care Also in Germany: The Impending Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation

Duty of Care Also in Germany: The Impending Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation

At the beginning of March, German ministries published the government draft of a mandatory supply...

How sustainable is the Circular Economy?

How sustainable is the Circular Economy?

Josef-Peter Schöggl, Lukas Stumpf, Rupert J. Baumgartner

SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers

SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers

Our software solution is already successfully used by our customers from various industries e.g....

SCIP Database – iPoint Compliance automates the exchange of information

SCIP Database – iPoint Compliance automates the exchange of information

>Free Demo Video – SCIP Database Connector Watch the video to hear about the latest updates on ECHA...

CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies

CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies

Since January 1rst, 2021, in Germany a new CO2 pricing on fuels has been in force. It demands that...

Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment

Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment

Reducing carbon emissions is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for companies to combat...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Update on Research Activities

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Update on Research Activities

Anything but a standstill is currently happening in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for...

EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP

EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP

On September 21, 2020, 40 EU and non-EU industry associations asked the European Commission to...

The Green Deal and the Circular Economy

The Green Deal and the Circular Economy

Zero greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 The European Green Deal Communication (COM(2019) 640...

SCIP Database Connector Enterprise & Professional released

SCIP Database Connector Enterprise & Professional released

Hear about the latest updates on ECHA SCIP database and see a live demo of the officially released...

Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future

Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future

More than 65% of consumers are worried about climate change, and take social and environmental...

I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle

I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle

Many of our customers say that we’ve simplified the complex processes of digitalizing the...

New IUCLID version by ECHA

New IUCLID version by ECHA

ECHA will release the new version of IUCLID (https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/) on October 28th. With...

SCIP reporting using IMDS system vs. iPoint SCIP connector

SCIP reporting using IMDS system vs. iPoint SCIP connector

We are all aware that SCIP reporting requires a considerable effort for almost all affected...

From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite

From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite

iPoint’s software covers a lot of ground. In combination, our software products provide a broad...

Data – the raw material required for good decision making in the transition to a Circular Economy

Data – the raw material required for good decision making in the transition to a Circular Economy

Properly utilized data is a valuable resource. In our increasingly digital world, most efficiency...

Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability

Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability

Many companies voluntarily go beyond regulatory requirements, setting higher expectations and...

Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!

Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!

In the past few years, we’ve seen a plethora of projects and initiatives emerge, focusing on...

End-to-end material lifecycle management is key

End-to-end material lifecycle management is key

When it comes to materials in products, what we call “end of life” is also the “beginning-of-life”....

How does Brexit affect you?

How does Brexit affect you?

The planned transitional period will run until 31 December 2020. After the end of the transition...

From compliance to sustainability: a natural path to managing material lifecycles

From compliance to sustainability: a natural path to managing material lifecycles

Meeting all local and global regulatory requirements is a must for all companies doing business in...

The current state of material compliance management

The current state of material compliance management

Materials and substances used in manufacturing plants need to comply with health, safety, and...

We are living in a material world

We are living in a material world

Materials and substances are the fundamental building blocks required to produce bigger components,...

SCIP database to be launched in late October – no indication that deadline in January 2021 will be postponed

SCIP database to be launched in late October – no indication that deadline in January 2021 will be postponed

The European Chemical Agency ECHA informed that during the last week of October, the SCIP database...

Cobalt unmasked – Is cobalt really a sustainable option?

Cobalt unmasked – Is cobalt really a sustainable option?

In recent years, the demand for cobalt has steadily increased with the development of the electric...

Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Europe: Coming to a Country Near You

Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Europe: Coming to a Country Near You

The European Union plans to introduce legislation requiring companies to undertake human rights and...

Increasing material profitability with MFCA in low-loss production

Increasing material profitability with MFCA in low-loss production

ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, and Umwelttechnik BW (State Agency for Environmental...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 3/3

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 3/3

Continuous meetings with the (industry) partners of the CD-Lab are key to fostering knowledge and...

SCIP FAQ: The Echa SCIP Database

SCIP FAQ: The Echa SCIP Database

Update 2021: We have update the FAQ – check out what’s new Our SCIP FAQ document provides a summary...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3

The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management is a 7-year project with a...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 1/3

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 1/3

To support the ambitious Circular Economy Action Plan adopted by the European Union, the...

ECHA Updates SVHC Candidate List: 4 New Substances

ECHA Updates SVHC Candidate List: 4 New Substances

On June 25, ECHA added four new candidates to the list of substances of very high concern....

CMRT 6.01 & CRT 2.11 Available and Active on iPoint Conflict Minerals

CMRT 6.01 & CRT 2.11 Available and Active on iPoint Conflict Minerals

On May 19, 2020, CMRT 6.01 and CRT 2.11 were released and made available for download. As of June...

Sneak Peek at iPoint’s SCIP Connector

Sneak Peek at iPoint’s SCIP Connector

See a live demo of the iPoint Compliance SCIP Connector that automates the creation of SCIP...

Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database

Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database

Chemical compliance reporting for electronics or products with electronics in them involves...

The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR

The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR

Is your company and your supply chain ready to tackle the new EU MDR requirements? Get prepared for...

How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech

How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech

Due to COVID-19, protective masks and respiratory equipment are in high demand. iPoint Compliance...

ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting

ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting

During the last SCIP database workshop on March 17th, 2020, ECHA indicated a change to the...

SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)

SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)

In our webinar “How to get ready for ECHA’s SCIP database“ we were excited to be able to give you...

Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain

Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain

The US Dept. of Homeland Security is committed to enforcing anti-human trafficking and forced labor...

SCIP Database test version available

SCIP Database test version available

On Monday, February 17th, 2020, the long-awaited release of the test version of SCIP database –...

Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?

Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?

An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly...

Can Digitalization help to save costs related to Sustainability & Compliance?

Can Digitalization help to save costs related to Sustainability & Compliance?

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...

The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019

The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...

Compliance or Sustainability – What is more important for businesses?

Compliance or Sustainability – What is more important for businesses?

After our successful survey 2018 with more than 450 participants, we decided to carry on with our...

First glimpse at the SCIP database

First glimpse at the SCIP database

During last week’s ECHA IT working group meeting iPoint’s experts had the chance to get a first...

How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research

How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research

How sustainable is a service or a product? This question is becoming more and more important in...

The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China

The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China

Japan has one of the highest geriatric populations in the world and because of that they have a...

Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020

Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020

Several global companies from the Medical Device industry like Becton Dickinson, Roche, Emerson or...

Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched

Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched

Since our last update on the SCIP database, work has progressed further. Not only have we...

Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval

Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval

The race to introduce a product to the market is a fierce one; where companies are constantly...

How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts

How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts

Thanks to automatization and data interfacing, LCA is becoming accessible to any role in an...

Conflict Minerals – Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities

Conflict Minerals – Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities

Why you should establish proactive business practices to manage the shift from conflict minerals...

Enterprise Blockchain 2028

Enterprise Blockchain 2028

Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade Hype comes with a placebo effect,...

How Toyota North America ensures the compliance of its products

How Toyota North America ensures the compliance of its products

When Toyota North America decided for iPoint Compliance as the leading solution to manage all their...

iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting

iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting

Last week saw the kick-off meeting for stakeholders of the SCIP database held by the European...

How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!

How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!

When it comes to collecting information from your supply chain, having certain industry standards,...

Why we built the iPoint Suite

Why we built the iPoint Suite

In iPoint’s software solutions, the CARE principle forms the foundation. All our software solutions...

Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY

Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY

Since 2001 customers, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, have been using our software...

How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business

How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business

It’s obvious that companies need transparency for good decision-making and any management of...

How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses

How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses

We believe in continuous progression with technology. This can be accomplished by making complexity...

Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity

Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity

Today’s companies face high pressure by investors to improve revenue, by regulations to abide by...

Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?

Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?

Electric cars and e-mobility are hotly debated issue right now, both in scientific circles and in...

Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite

Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite

On Thursday, August 8th, eLRT Lite, a simplified version of the electronic Labour Rights Template,...

Do LCAs reveal green lies?

Do LCAs reveal green lies?

As life cycle experts know, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to either confirm or...

Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub

Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub

Cobalt is the key element used in batteries of mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles and...

4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future

4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future

On July 16, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 4 new candidate substances....

How to increase Business Transparency by assessing compliance data – exactly where its needed

How to increase Business Transparency by assessing compliance data – exactly where its needed

Companies currently using SAP® have a vast amount of existing data in their system that can be...

How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals

How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals

Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life...

How to build a sustainable car?

How to build a sustainable car?

What are the challenges for the implementation of Sustainable Product Development in the automotive...

iPoint Provides Pilot Tool For EU LIFE Project AskREACH

iPoint Provides Pilot Tool For EU LIFE Project AskREACH

iPoint Compliance becomes the pilot tool for the EU Project LIFE AskREACH. In addition, iPoint...

How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster

How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster

To speed up the development of new products companies need to evaluate data on products, materials...

LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think

LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think

With the use of electric vehicles on the rise, there’s a lot of buzz about how environmentally...

Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits

Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits

It is hard to argue that industrialism didn’t improve the world.

Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019

Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019

ROHS Directive starts to restrict the Phthalates listed in ROHS Annex II. But with regard to REACH...

Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry

Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry

Earlier this year, a team of consultants from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, held an initial...

German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights

German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights

Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland...

Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry

Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry

The German family business C&C Bark Metalldruckguss und Formenbau GmbH produces magnesium die casts...

iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries

iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries

On January 15, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 6 new entries to the...

MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships

MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships

How will we make Hamburg’s industry more efficient and sustainable? To answer this question, the...

How to bring transparency into the supply chain

How to bring transparency into the supply chain

More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes...

Will there be a UK REACH?

Will there be a UK REACH?

What will be the challenges Brexit will have to your business on the products and services that you...

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to...

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

The new web-client of the iPoint Compliance Agent, iPCA Web, enables companies to advance...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?

Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?

At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance...

Envisioning a sustainable future: increasing resource efficiency through digitization

Envisioning a sustainable future: increasing resource efficiency through digitization

Digitalization and Industry 4.0 loom large on the horizon of manufacturing. For many companies,...

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

In November 2018, iPoint launched a new compliance survey app for the SustainHub platform as a...

Sankey Diagram: Tasty Christmas Special

Sankey Diagram: Tasty Christmas Special

If you wish to delight all of your colleagues with a tasty christmas present, here is a simple...

Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions

Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions

Material Flow Cost Accounting, or MFCA, is most widely known as an instrument used by manufacturing...

Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport

Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport

Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package,...

SustainHub Roadmap 2019

SustainHub Roadmap 2019

Free Webinar: Innovative insights and an exclusive outlook on the SustainHub Join Sebastian...

France’s Due Diligence Law – Loi sur le devoir de vigilance

France’s Due Diligence Law – Loi sur le devoir de vigilance

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh lost their lives when the textiles factory...

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic

Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic

How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a...

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve...

Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw...

Together, we bring fw: transparency

Together, we bring fw: transparency

At iPoint, we bring fw: transparency and places it at the forefront of everything that we do.

New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies

New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies

Recertification of an energy management system according to ISO 50001 has become more demanding –...

Lids against Polio

Lids against Polio

Poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio, is an illness that has been almost completely...

fw: transparency 2019 – Save the date!

fw: transparency 2019 – Save the date!

Under the slogan: “Latest Trends in Product Compliance and Sustainability – Integration as a Key to...

Life Cycle Impact Assessment – which are the LCIA indicator sets most widely used by practitioners?

Life Cycle Impact Assessment – which are the LCIA indicator sets most widely used by practitioners?

Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which...

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk

According the latest Global Slavery Index (GSI), released in July 2018, it can be estimated that...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The California Proposition 65 is a California Law that came into effect in 1986.

A Sankey Diagram Says More Than 1.000 Pie Charts

A Sankey Diagram Says More Than 1.000 Pie Charts

What are Sankey diagrams? Engineers and environmental scientists will be able to answer this...

Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket

Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket

OEMs and their suppliers are facing multiple regulatory challenges when it comes to the so called...

“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”

“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”

Do you still rerecord, what you thought and expected when you started with your first flow model of...

Towards a Digital Circular Economy

Towards a Digital Circular Economy

Take – make – use – dispose is causing increasingly scarce resources, environmental pollution and...

Welcome to the iPoint Blog!

Welcome to the iPoint Blog!

We are delighted to present you with news and information on the topics and solutions of the iPoint...

Innovation@iPoint

Innovation@iPoint

The objective of innovation management is to turn great ideas into financially successful products...

Speed up your REACH Information Request Processes

Speed up your REACH Information Request Processes

The new iPoint Compliance Agent (iPCA) REACH Letter module supports you especially in fulfilling...

Thailand‘s pioneer in reducing GHG emissions: Expert interview

Thailand‘s pioneer in reducing GHG emissions: Expert interview

I’d like to introduce you to Kularb Kimsri, Vice President at the Global Standard System Centre of...

Twenty Years in the Making: a Review the 20th Umberto User Workshop

Twenty Years in the Making: a Review the 20th Umberto User Workshop

A 20th anniversary is often a marked event, so it was fitting that this year’s Umberto User...

Social Life Cycle Analysis: Why Does It Lurk In the Shadow of Environmental LCA?

Social Life Cycle Analysis: Why Does It Lurk In the Shadow of Environmental LCA?

The term “Life Cycle Analysis” (LCA) is largely assumed to be the technique used for the assessment...

Interview with Victor Vladimirov: Hobas Engineering

Interview with Victor Vladimirov: Hobas Engineering

Gathering quality data is one of the biggest challenges in producing accurate LCAs. In an interview...

Obtain LCA data from suppliers – Insights from a sustainability consultant

Obtain LCA data from suppliers – Insights from a sustainability consultant

Rebecca LeBlanc is a sustainability consultant at “Strategic Sustainability Consulting” in Boston,...

Beyond the Isolated Approach: How to Better Optimise Resource Efficiency in the Chemical Industry

Beyond the Isolated Approach: How to Better Optimise Resource Efficiency in the Chemical Industry

The importance of resource efficiency within industry has gained significant traction in recent...

How material flow cost accounting reduces food wastage

How material flow cost accounting reduces food wastage

Everyone agrees that food should not be wasted. Given its huge environmental footprints and the...

Climate protection – cost reduction: Resource efficiency analyses in the chemical industry

Climate protection – cost reduction: Resource efficiency analyses in the chemical industry

Reduced energy consumption, less material usage and consequently lower production costs. These are...

Interview with Matthias Voigtmann, CEO of Energy Consulting Allgäu

Interview with Matthias Voigtmann, CEO of Energy Consulting Allgäu

Who is Energy Consulting Allgäu?

Product Carbon Footprints at FRoSTA: Expert interview

Product Carbon Footprints at FRoSTA: Expert interview

Urban Buschmann is Head of Sustainability and Process Development at FRoSTA, one of the biggest...

How Traditional Cost Accounting Methods Resolve Carbon Footprint Issues

How Traditional Cost Accounting Methods Resolve Carbon Footprint Issues

Life cycle assessment (LCA), in simplified definition, is a task that uncovers all environmental...

3 Alternative Ideas for Waste Management in Developing Countries

3 Alternative Ideas for Waste Management in Developing Countries

Unlike the global north, most developing countries have difficulties affording sophisticated...

Companies’ Anti-Slavery Performance Improves Globally, New Report Reveals

Companies’ Anti-Slavery Performance Improves Globally, New Report Reveals

According to a new benchmarking report, companies’ anti-slavery compliance and actions have...

New: Anti-Slavery Reporting Template eLRT

New: Anti-Slavery Reporting Template eLRT

In November 2016, iPoint launched the electronic Labor Rights Template (eLRT). The free,...

iPoint Joins UN Global Compact

iPoint Joins UN Global Compact

On August 7, 2017, iPoint was officially welcomed as a participant of the United Nations Global...

The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU

The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU

Starting with the fiscal year 2017, large listed entities with more than 500 employees will have to...

Innovation Awards for iPoint

Innovation Awards for iPoint

In May 2017, independent research firm Verdantix recognized iPoint’s customer Emerson with an...

Digital Circular Economy – The Digital Revolution of the Circular Economy

Digital Circular Economy – The Digital Revolution of the Circular Economy

In contrast to the linear economy (take, make, use, dispose), the circular economy approach does...

The Life Cycle Perspective in the New ISO 14001:2015 Standard

Following publication of the environmental management standard ISO 14001:2015 on September 15,...

France passes due diligence law

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh lost their lives when the textiles factory...

Material Flow Cost Accounting provides head start for SMEs

Material Flow Cost Accounting provides head start for SMEs

MFCA stands for Material Flow Cost Accounting and helps businesses to increase their material...

Material Flow Cost Accounting: Tips from a consultant

Material Flow Cost Accounting: Tips from a consultant

Hiroshi Tachikawa is the managing director at Propharm Japan. He helped numerous companies across...

LCAs in the telecommunication sector

LCAs in the telecommunication sector

Andreas Kröhling, Senior Expert for Corporate Responsibility at “Deutsche Telekom AG” recommends...

Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”

Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”

Marko Schnarr works for the environmental office at Miele, the well-known manufacturer of household...

Inventive engineers serving the environment

Inventive engineers serving the environment

Can environmentally friendly raw materials meet product specifications and be cost effective?

How Much is This Really Worth; How to Monetize Environmental Impacts

How Much is This Really Worth; How to Monetize Environmental Impacts

Managing to engage decision-makers at all levels of a company on sustainability matters is an all...

Material Flow Cost Accounting: Resource Efficiency Made Simple

Material Flow Cost Accounting: Resource Efficiency Made Simple

Many organisations are coming under increasing pressure to minimise the environmental impact of...

Photovoltaking the future.

Photovoltaking the future.

You might have noticed that the world is currently undergoing an energy transition – from fossil...

Wasting food: a brief guide.

Wasting food: a brief guide.

With the human population on this little planet of ours expected to grow to over 9 billion in the...

Enhancing urban mobility: Anyone for bicycle freedom?

Enhancing urban mobility: Anyone for bicycle freedom?

As discussed a couple of weeks ago in this blog (here), cycling has long been understood as a...

A taste of Velo-efficiency

A taste of Velo-efficiency

I once read that a human being on a bicycle is the most efficient means by which any animal has...

The TTIP: Partnership or legal straitjacket?

The TTIP: Partnership or legal straitjacket?

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP) currently under negotiation between the US...

Unburnable Carbon: Bill McKibben’s frightening math

Unburnable Carbon: Bill McKibben’s frightening math

An article by veteran American environmental campaigner Bill McKibben appearing in Rolling Stone a...

Open source for climate innovation

Open source for climate innovation

Nobody is likely to argue with the claim that innovation is at the root of human prosperity. So it...

Resource Efficiency III: The Quarry and the Factory

Resource Efficiency III: The Quarry and the Factory

One of the more frustrating aspects of research is when the data will not conform to ones...

Resource efficiency II: Offshoring resource consumption

Resource efficiency II: Offshoring resource consumption

Last year the Economist magazine claimed that “While America and Europe are cutting their emissions...

Resource Efficiency: Measuring and Managing Metabolism

Resource Efficiency: Measuring and Managing Metabolism

Last week’s offering from this blog flew under the banner of “The Circular Economy” – a concept so...

The Circular Economy: Another ‘Industrial Revolution’?

The Circular Economy: Another ‘Industrial Revolution’?

The big boys who meet at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos aren’t really into warm fuzzy...

The greening of construction (Part III): Buildings Ratings tools in international context

The greening of construction (Part III): Buildings Ratings tools in international context

In the first article in this series a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the trend towards...

The greening of construction (Part II): International development of EPDs

The greening of construction (Part II): International development of EPDs

Unless you have been living under a rock, or on the wrong side of the digital divide in a slum, you...

The greening of construction (Part I): Overview

The greening of construction (Part I): Overview

In recent years humankind reached a significant milestone when we became a predominantly urban...

From footprints to handprints: clutching at straws?

From footprints to handprints: clutching at straws?

A couple of years ago TIME magazine rated Handprints among the “10 ideas that are changing your...

A New Development Paradigm?

A New Development Paradigm?

‘Development’ might be a fuzzy concept, but it is essentially concerned with fostering conditions...

How fashionable is industrial ecology?

How fashionable is industrial ecology?

Once a year, selected master’s degree students from some of the world’s leading design schools –...

A Disruptive EU? : Environmental Technology Verification Comes to Europe

A Disruptive EU? : Environmental Technology Verification Comes to Europe

An innovation with a proven track record is hardly an innovation.

Product environmental footprinting: Harmonization or proliferation of standards?

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a means of determining the environmental impact of a product,...

How to dismantle the resource efficiency black box in chemical industries

How to dismantle the resource efficiency black box in chemical industries

“From Sustainability Reporting to Sustainability Management Control” is the title of the 17th...

26 Life-Cycle-Based Business Strategies that Matter

26 Life-Cycle-Based Business Strategies that Matter

We’ve all heard of the sharing economy. We’re all aware of the need for double decoupling. We all...

Beyond Heavy Oil – 8 Future-Proof Cargo Vessel Technologies

Beyond Heavy Oil – 8 Future-Proof Cargo Vessel Technologies

Think global, buy local? The idea of limiting one’s personal consumption to national, regional or...

Chance or Catastrophe? Towards a Constructive Media Coverage of Climate Change

Chance or Catastrophe? Towards a Constructive Media Coverage of Climate Change

Instead of using the opportunity to promote a low-carbon society, media reports of global warming...

Making an LCA in 1 Hour – How to Get Going with Umberto

Making an LCA in 1 Hour – How to Get Going with Umberto

SimaPro and GaBi are the most commonly used software tools to conduct a professional life cycle...

The Cow, Black Sheep of Our Climate

The Cow, Black Sheep of Our Climate

Right after driving, flying, heating, and cooling, consuming meat and dairy products weighs the...

Sustainability Triangle? One Pillar Missing!

Sustainability Triangle? One Pillar Missing!

There is a significant growing concern in several arenas that the three-pillar model of...

Efficiency 2.0 – How to Reveal Hidden Savings Potential with Integrated Energy Management

Efficiency 2.0 – How to Reveal Hidden Savings Potential with Integrated Energy Management

Adjust all the details, but don’t forget the big picture. That’s the best conclusion you can draw...

From Data to Knowledge: The Power of Elegant Sankey Diagrams

From Data to Knowledge: The Power of Elegant Sankey Diagrams

Industry defines the structure of our economy, of our work environment, of our personal mobility,...

Top-Notch Sustainability Practitioner Gathering: Umberto User Workshop in Essen, Sept 11/12, 2013

Top-Notch Sustainability Practitioner Gathering: Umberto User Workshop in Essen, Sept 11/12, 2013

When the only way to implement a satisfactory future in human development is holistic thinking...

Turning World War II History into a Renewable Present – 3 Striking Sustainable Adaptations from IBA Hamburg

Turning World War II History into a Renewable Present – 3 Striking Sustainable Adaptations from IBA Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city, saw more than half its building stock destroyed during...

Long-Distance, Low-Impact? Inside Cargo Ship Travelling

Long-Distance, Low-Impact? Inside Cargo Ship Travelling

As I sail through the English Channel and complete my last miles around the world on a reefer...

First LCA on 3D Printer Sustainability: Green Manufacturing Revolution or Overrated Gadget?

First LCA on 3D Printer Sustainability: Green Manufacturing Revolution or Overrated Gadget?

Rapid prototyping, also called 3D printing, is the name of a much praised technological innovation...

How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part II: India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea

How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part II: India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea

Last week, I critically reviewed the term emerging economy and concluded that, given the lack of an...

How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part I: Brazil and China

How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part I: Brazil and China

Over the course of the last two decades, most people have realized that in a rapidly changing...

5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency Part 2: Material Flow Modeling, MFCA and LCA Made Easy

5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency Part 2: Material Flow Modeling, MFCA and LCA Made Easy

Last week, I introduced you to the first three steps small and medium-sized companies need to take...

5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency: Material Flow Modeling Made Easy

5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency: Material Flow Modeling Made Easy

When calculating and reducing business-related environmental effects, two different approaches are...

A Truly Green Building Sector? Sustainable Housing Challenges in Northern Europe

A Truly Green Building Sector? Sustainable Housing Challenges in Northern Europe

Throughout its lifespan, a building affects the environment in a multitude of ways. How our house...

5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting

5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting

Business is not responsible for society. Business is society. Entrepreneur, manager, employee,...

How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource

How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource

Picking up on “sustainable agriculture”, most people think of free range chicken. They imagine...

ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell

ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell

The ISO 14000 series has proved to be handy for quite a while now. Companies and public...

Who’s Happier – The Proactive Lohas or the Spontaneous Hedonist?

Who’s Happier – The Proactive Lohas or the Spontaneous Hedonist?

The perception that pro-environmental behaviour has negative effects on well-being has made it...

The Truth About the Dragon: China’s Future is Inevitably Green

The Truth About the Dragon: China’s Future is Inevitably Green

What if every person in India drove a car? What if all Chinese were to live in their own 3-bedroom...

Discovering All Environmental Effects: How Life Cycle Assessment with LCA Software Works

Discovering All Environmental Effects: How Life Cycle Assessment with LCA Software Works

Environmental effects are extremely complex, that’s why they’re impossible to measure, so let’s not...

Cutting GHG Emissions of Industrial Parks by 35% through Corporate Collaboration

Cutting GHG Emissions of Industrial Parks by 35% through Corporate Collaboration

Buy local, drive less, switch to renewable energy – these are just a few of the omnipresent...

How to Invent the Right Institution to Cut Resource Conflicts

How to Invent the Right Institution to Cut Resource Conflicts

Can you resist the impetus coming from a 234 page report that has the promising title “Resource...

From Green to Blue to Gray to Black: The Chromatics of Water Footprints

From Green to Blue to Gray to Black: The Chromatics of Water Footprints

Because water is the most vital element for life, many contemporary intellectuals expect it to be...

Kyoto’s CO2-Baseline Wrong by 7% – But Today’s GHG Inventories Aren’t All That Bad

Kyoto’s CO2-Baseline Wrong by 7% – But Today’s GHG Inventories Aren’t All That Bad

Regardless of how China is perceived in the west, in the medium term, the world’s most ambitious...

When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises

When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises

There are manifold approaches to close the apparent gap between a shrinking resource base on the...

337 Opinions on the Most Resource-Efficient Policy Instruments to Embed Ecodesign

337 Opinions on the Most Resource-Efficient Policy Instruments to Embed Ecodesign

Quite a few of the European Commission’s 23,000 civil servants devote themselves to the...

How Sustainable are Europe’s 5 Million E-Cars in 2020? New LCA Guidelines Help the Assessing

How Sustainable are Europe’s 5 Million E-Cars in 2020? New LCA Guidelines Help the Assessing

67 Quick-Payoff Measures to Reduce Urban Carbon Emissions

67 Quick-Payoff Measures to Reduce Urban Carbon Emissions

Transforming the energy supply from fossil to renewable sources is a goal that makes sense, but...

100% Renewables? How Germany’s Energy Transition Is Taking Shape

100% Renewables? How Germany’s Energy Transition Is Taking Shape

What happens when an entire country decides to phase out nuclear and fossil energy? When this...

Holistic Sustainability Measurement: The Composite 3-Pillar-Index

Holistic Sustainability Measurement: The Composite 3-Pillar-Index

By the end of the 20th century, a deep conceptual gap had evolved between a destructive economy...

Green Jobs, 80% Renewables in 2020, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Green Jobs, 80% Renewables in 2020, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Brief season’s greetings from knowtheflow, with a thought that I was delighted to discover in the ...

Eco-economic Decoupling: How to Measure a Sustainable Growth

Eco-economic Decoupling: How to Measure a Sustainable Growth

What is decoupling? Green Growth, Sustainable Growth, Green Economy – All of these concepts require...

The Outweighed Efficiency Gain – 13 Rebound Effects in Detail

The Outweighed Efficiency Gain – 13 Rebound Effects in Detail

According to Tilman Santarius, one essential concept is missing in all the scenarios that lead...

19 Industry Reports – How Global Compact Promotes Efficiency

19 Industry Reports – How Global Compact Promotes Efficiency

Energy costs are on the rise. Their increase is so steady that now even the United Nations has...

Do Universities Practice What They Preach? On Academic Sustainability

Do Universities Practice What They Preach? On Academic Sustainability

As I wrote in my articles on the future-proof Bachelor and verbiage-free Masters in sustainability,...

31 Innovations for Maximum Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing

31 Innovations for Maximum Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing

The amount of manufacturing in Germany is vast. To guarantee survival in the global rotation of who...

4 Pressing Questions on the Ozone Hole Recovery

4 Pressing Questions on the Ozone Hole Recovery

Two months ago, newspapers around the world happily reproduced a news headline from Reuters – the...

Burn or Bury? Analyzing Waste Management Options in Detail

Burn or Bury? Analyzing Waste Management Options in Detail

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – the waste imperative is as clear as it can get. What’s less clear,...

5-Fold Increase in Efficiency – Not Delusional at All

5-Fold Increase in Efficiency – Not Delusional at All

Some of my recent articles have circled around an apparent antagonism between different schools of...

“A Balanced Mix of Technologies and Strategies” – The Sustainable Path is a Multi-Lane Highway

“A Balanced Mix of Technologies and Strategies” – The Sustainable Path is a Multi-Lane Highway

When it comes to discussing ways to limit human influence on global warming, the most popular...

Why Environmental Regulation Is Not Scaring Off Industry – On Declining Evidence for Pollution Haven Theory

Why Environmental Regulation Is Not Scaring Off Industry – On Declining Evidence for Pollution Haven Theory

Some say strict environmental regulations in individual countries are useless, especially from a...

Europe’s 10 Most Verbiage-Free Master Programs in Sustainability

Europe’s 10 Most Verbiage-Free Master Programs in Sustainability

Almost all interdisciplinary study programs introduced to the teaching universe in the past 5 years...

Better, Different, Less – Green Economy Revisited

Better, Different, Less – Green Economy Revisited

“Post Growth Economy or Resource Efficiency Revolution – How Should We Face the Limits of Our...

Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture, Part 2

Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture, Part 2

Last week, in part one of this article, we ended with the tragedy of the commons and the question...

Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture

Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture

Shrimp farms destroy sensitive mangrove forest ecosystems, salmon escape from designated...

Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?

Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?

In the last 150 years, three major trends have changed the way humanity consumes. First,...

LCA, CF, MFCA? What to Expect From Umberto User Workshop Hamburg, Sept 17/18

LCA, CF, MFCA? What to Expect From Umberto User Workshop Hamburg, Sept 17/18

Sustainability and efficiency: a couple of terms that couldn’t be more misused and greenwashed. A...

Why and How the Manufacturing Industry Should Go 100% Renewable Now

Renewable energy has a positive connotation in society and business, that’s for sure. The Fukushima...

What’s the Greenest 1 L Packaging? Two Powerful LCAs Give the Answer

It was a month ago when I heard the surprising news that milk packaged in cartons has the best...

6 Options to Maintain Current Lifestyles with Far Less Raw Materials: “With Both Eyes Open”

There is this old, ever repeating view of humanity as a counter-productive force when it comes to...

Carbon Neutral World Cup? Green Stadiums? Really?

Carbon Neutral World Cup? Green Stadiums? Really?

Fancy pictures of green stadiums have been fast to hit the media since FIFA’s decision to give the...

Integrated Reporting: How Business Can Transform Society through Serious Sustainability Communication

Integrated Reporting: How Business Can Transform Society through Serious Sustainability Communication

It goes without saying that providing investors and shareholders with financial performance data is...

Let’s Take the Green Economy in Hand Ourselves – The Conclusion From Rio+20’s Failure

Let’s Take the Green Economy in Hand Ourselves – The Conclusion From Rio+20’s Failure

Only 16.7% of Global Energy Consumption Is Renewable – Ways for Industry to Increase This Share

Only 16.7% of Global Energy Consumption Is Renewable – Ways for Industry to Increase This Share

You know studies. You know reports. You know data collections. But you don’t know Ren21? You...

More Than Ecosystem Dynamics – Understanding the Different Concepts of Resilience

More Than Ecosystem Dynamics – Understanding the Different Concepts of Resilience

There are these technical terms – complicated words with Latin origins – that experts have used for...

The 8 Most Specific LinkedIn Groups for Industrial Ecology

The 8 Most Specific LinkedIn Groups for Industrial Ecology

The social media marketing hype seems to be declining, whereas a seemingly infinite flood of mobile...

A Challenging Task: Promoting Energy Efficiency in Tajikistan

knowtheflow: Marjolaine, you work for the French organization GERES, which deals with promoting...

The Five Most Important Changes for Global Sustainability: Living Planet Report 2012

The Five Most Important Changes for Global Sustainability: Living Planet Report 2012

We live above our limits, the planet does not provide sufficient resources for our consumerist...

7 Measures for Efficient Climate Control on the Factory Floor

7 Measures for Efficient Climate Control on the Factory Floor

How, exactly, can a medium-sized industrial company save on energy without negatively affecting...

To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers

To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers

Incentive-based pay isn’t new; it’s been around for centuries. Ship captains transporting...

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Behind the Scenes of a $400 Billion Waste

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Behind the Scenes of a $400 Billion Waste

Ever since the 1980s, during the early years of the environmental movement, there has been a call...

From a cup of coffee to a bowl made of coffee

From a cup of coffee to a bowl made of coffee

Currently we are at the Hannover Messe, the world’s largest industrial trade show. We have a booth...

Last Chance for a Powerful Shift – On Quarrels About the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive

Last Chance for a Powerful Shift – On Quarrels About the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive

In July 2011, knowtheflow covered the possible failure to reach the EU’s energy efficiency target....

The OECD Turns Green – Why Saving the Planet Pays Off

The OECD Turns Green – Why Saving the Planet Pays Off

Continued degradation and erosion of natural environmental capital is expected to 2050, with the...

Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions – How to Face Carbon Leakage

Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions – How to Face Carbon Leakage

In the course of the last 20 years, some of the more developed countries achieved a remarkable...

Why SMEs Should Foster, Not Fear the Corporate Carbon Footprint

Most firms are occupied with selling products and meeting payroll and feel they don’t have time or...

“Everybody Should do Their Share” – The Long Road to Sustainability in Turkey

“Everybody Should do Their Share” – The Long Road to Sustainability in Turkey

knowtheflow: Prof. Dr. Inci Gökmen, you offer a course named “Sustainable Living and Green...

Post Growth Economy or Resource Efficiency Revolution – How Should We Face the Limits of Our Planet?

Post Growth Economy or Resource Efficiency Revolution – How Should We Face the Limits of Our Planet?

Economic growth is a means of producing wealth. No doubt about that. However, there are two central...

What is an Environmental Product Declaration? And What is it Good For?

What is an Environmental Product Declaration? And What is it Good For?

When talking about product labels that deal with the environment, it is often argued that there is...

What is Carbon Footprinting and Why Does it Facilitate Effective Energy Management?

What is Carbon Footprinting and Why Does it Facilitate Effective Energy Management?

Costs to the environment, generated throughout your company’s production process, can be assessed...

The Path to a Green Economy – Lessons From Germany

The Path to a Green Economy – Lessons From Germany

What green economy deals with is the idea of running our businesses in a sustainable way. All of...

What Conclusions Can We Draw From Tesco Dropping its Carbon Footprint Labeling?

What Conclusions Can We Draw From Tesco Dropping its Carbon Footprint Labeling?

A week ago, the Guardian published the news that the Tesco grocery store chain dropped its plan to...

Four Fit-For-Future Bachelor Programs in Europe

Four Fit-For-Future Bachelor Programs in Europe

Remember the time when you struggled to find the right program of study? Or have you just finished...

Why the Carbon Tax Makes Sense and How to Gain a Competitive Edge From it

Why the Carbon Tax Makes Sense and How to Gain a Competitive Edge From it

Instead of hoping that your lobbyist negotiates another carbon tax exemption for your industry, you...

Stayin’ Alive: Survival Strategies for 2012

Stayin’ Alive: Survival Strategies for 2012

If you read these lines, it is more than likely you are still alive. And if you read these lines,...

Brief theoretical guide to Sustainable Production

Brief theoretical guide to Sustainable Production

The Brundtland Report systematically defined the various factors related to society’s new paradigm...

Getting it Straight: Exact Carbon Emissions From One Bottle of Wine

Getting it Straight: Exact Carbon Emissions From One Bottle of Wine

I bet you know how much carbon dioxide your car emits per kilometer. Maybe you are also well...

Celebrate a Carbon Neutral Christmas!

Celebrate a Carbon Neutral Christmas!

Anyone not noticed it? Yes, of course, it is December – another annual epidemic of Christmas...

ecoinvent – The Swiss Army Knife of LCA Background Databases

Background databases can be very convenient when you assess all of the impacts a product or a...

Terminating the End-of-Pipe Era by Simple Means of Process Optimization

Terminating the End-of-Pipe Era by Simple Means of Process Optimization

In the course of the last three decades, more and more voices have called for cleaner industry....

Material Flow Based Process Systems Engineering

Material Flow Based Process Systems Engineering

I have been waiting for this for far too long, but finally it has been written and it deserves your...

Students Often Responsible for Changes

Students Often Responsible for Changes

It’s international Students‘ day today.

Encouraging Ecological Forest Management

Encouraging Ecological Forest Management

The inventor of sustainability, says the legend, was Hans Carl von Carlowitz, a mining...

French Environmental Labeling – Industrial Experience Feedback

French Environmental Labeling – Industrial Experience Feedback

3 Precise Perspectives on Corporate Carbon Footprints

3 Precise Perspectives on Corporate Carbon Footprints

As business consultant in the field of sustainability, I would like to share with you three...

Ecology’s Step Child – We Need Water Footprints!

Ecology’s Step Child – We Need Water Footprints!

Assessing environmental effects of human activity is something we become more and more familiar...

Refining Material Flow Analysis: The Arising of Input-Output Economics

Refining Material Flow Analysis: The Arising of Input-Output Economics

We can be proud of the great wealth of reliable, good quality data that are being produced every...

Getting started … success factors for collaboration between Universities and Corporations on sustainability projects

Getting started … success factors for collaboration between Universities and Corporations on sustainability projects

A typical situation: Let’s say his name is Michael, working for a medium sized production company,...

Carbon Neutral Cities (2) – 3 Ways to Assess a City’s Emissions

Carbon Neutral Cities (2) – 3 Ways to Assess a City’s Emissions

Two weeks ago, in part one of this article, we got an idea of the measures that are being taken to...

Productivity, Efficiency and Quality

Productivity, Efficiency and Quality

Productivity is probably the main keyword in growth theory. Expressed as a mathematical function it...

4 Alternatives to Waste Disposal – Increasing Your SMB’s Resource Efficiency

4 Alternatives to Waste Disposal – Increasing Your SMB’s Resource Efficiency

It is no secret, that the Earth’s resource base is on a declining track. In the 1970s, the Club of...

Effectively Managing Greenhouse Gases – Worldwide

Effectively Managing Greenhouse Gases – Worldwide

Do companies have a conscience to fight global warming and manage their greenhouse gas emissions?...

Carbon Neutral Cities – Where? When? How?

Carbon Neutral Cities – Where? When? How?

The city of Seattle recently announced a new goal for 2050: Achieving complete carbon neutrality....

Celebrations, come on, let’s celebrate and have a good time. And don’t think about tomorrow…?

Do you know what day today is? Yes, it is google’s 13th birthday. But this is not what I want to...

“Just One Indicator, Please”: PUMA’s Environmental Profit and Loss Statement

“Just One Indicator, Please”: PUMA’s Environmental Profit and Loss Statement

Recently, the sports brand PUMA released a preliminary version of their “unprecedented” ...

What’s What: Understanding the ISO 14000 Family Of Standards

What’s What: Understanding the ISO 14000 Family Of Standards

Back in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of...