Life Cycle Assessment Commons | Data and Community for Life Cycle Assessment

Recent Updates

2018 LCA Commons Update

Fri, 07/20/2018 - 12:52

The USDA National Agricultural Library LCA Commons team is in the process of deploying a new LCA Collaboration Server (LCA CS) platform for data collection, publication, and discovery. The LCA CS was developed in partnership with GreenDelta GmbH. The LCA CS allows NAL and its partners to share and publish data sets seamlessly using web services. Modelers who work in openLCA can now commit data sets directly to NAL servers through their openLCA desk top application.
USLCI Update

Tue, 04/18/2017 - 09:08

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and National Agricultural Library (NAL), with assistance from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), have released a new version of the U.S. Life Cycle Inventory Database (USLCI). This latest version contains improvements to the database’s usability and the addition of several new datasets.