UiPath Platform: The Backend Engine Powering Your Automation - Session 1
G21 egg2012 v1.1
1. Seeds4Green: an Open Collaborative
Internet Platform for LCA Studies
EGG 2012
Hélène Teulon
Benjamin Canaguier
2. Who is Gingko 21?
Gingko 21 is a consultancy company dedicated to LCA
and eco-innovation.
We believe that making LCA knowledge available to a
wider public should help promote sustainable goods
and services.
helene.teulon@gingko21.com
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3. What is Seeds4Green ?
A collaborative site to gather documents linked
to environmental sustainability of products and
services
Dedicated to professionals willing to better
assess this impact
To support LCA, green purchasing or Eco-
design
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4. Which Questions Does it Answer?
Natural or artificial Christmas Trees: Which has
less impact?
Is there any public study on strawberries?
Who has ever worked on a LCA of garden
furniture?
What are the relevant environmental criteria to
ecodesign a T-shirt?
Are there any existing ecolabelling schemes or
EPD related to TVsets?
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14. Key Benefits
Potentially the widest LCA documents
database: more than 250 contents available
today, and much more if we all contribute
Quick access to detailed analysis
Advanced research functions
Collective intelligence at work
Validation by the community
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16. How You Can Help
When browsing the internet and finding an
interesting document, save it on Seeds4Green
=> you’ll find it easily later on
=> you help colleagues in their job
=> we all contribute to rising the level of knowledge on
environmental impacts of products
You might have ideas on how to improve
Seeds4Green
=> we are keen to exchange with you!
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17. Perspectives
For us Seeds4Green is intended to remain a free
service
We have many ideas on how to improve the platform.
We are looking for both sponsors and partners to help
us develop it further!
This project was submitted to the board of Life Cycle
Initiative and is under evaluation for support
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