A map of LCA
for everyone.

A platform for learning LCA systematically and in practice. Let's pool what each of us knows, share it with the world, and build the map together.

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For now, you can use Q&A to ask about anything you are stuck on in your LCA work.

From LCA Basics to practice, learn online

Textbooks are too long to grasp in one pass, and software tutorials run to more than 100 pages. Even without a teacher or a community nearby, you can start from the basics in your browser and work all the way to choosing your own data and completing one study. The goal is that, by the end, you are someone who has done an LCA once.

LCA Basics ①Recommended for beginnersGetting to know LCABefore any calculation, you will learn what is being calculated. This alone lets you read an LCA report and follow the discussion.
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LCA Basics ②Through to the reportWork from the goal through to the report, so that you can take one study all the way to the end.
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LCA Basics ③Try it for realUsing the documents and database provided, decide for yourself which data and amounts to use, and complete one full study. A simplified version that follows the workflow of SimaPro and openLCA.
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LCA Basics ④Clearing the stumbling blocks in practiceWhere people get stuck in practice, and what is easy to miss, in the order of the work. Clear up here whatever confused you in Course 3.
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Turning individual experience into shared knowledge

Where people get stuck in practice, and how they get past it, is today locked away with individuals and small communities. Articles record that experience with its conditions and sources, so the next person stuck at the same point can find it. We collect accounts of what people actually did, which a summary of web pages cannot give you.

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Ask about the point where your LCA work has stalled. Answers are kept with their conditions and sources.

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