Christine Burow, President of Christine Burow Consulting
Thursday, April 26, 2012
2 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. PT
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LCA and EPD are two acronyms that are getting increasing attention and use. While it’s straightforward to understand what these tools mean in the broad sense, it’s not as straightforward to understand how these tools work and how to use them. In this i2live webinar, Christine Burow, President of Christine Burow Consulting, will provide a practical guide to understanding and using LCAs and EPDs with several examples of how they are driving change in the lumber, paper, and packaging supply chains. This webcast presentation will be useful to people interpreting or commissioning LCAs and EPDs.
Christine Burow worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Forest Products Association of Canada on “Life Cycle Assessment and Forest Products: A White Paper”. During the webinar, she will walk participants through the steps needed to commission an LCA analysis or to interpret an LCA report. Ms. Burow will discuss the four fundamental steps of setting up a LCA: goal and scope definition; inventory analysis; impact assessment and interpretation. Attendees at the webinar can expect to come away with a clear understanding of some of the primary reasons for conducting an LCA, which include driving performance improvement, effective marketing communications, meeting stakeholders’ expectations, complying with and anticipating legislative requirements and understanding the limitations of LCA.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christine Burow runs an independent consulting company focused on business-to-business strategy with an emphasis on marketing and sustainability. Christine’s clients include large and small businesses as well as government and cover multiple industries such as forest products, renewable energy, cleantech and manufacturing. She has developed business plans and market strategies and helped drive their implementation. She is the Co-Chair of The Sustainability Consortium’s Paper Sector, acting as the Forest Product Association of Canada’s representative. She is also a Team Member of Leapfrog Sustainability Inc.
Christine has a Masters of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Waterloo.
Liz Shoch joined GreenBlue in 2008 as a Project Manager for both the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the Closing the Loop project, coming from a natural resource conservation and policy background. Liz’s work primarily focuses on packaging end of life, including recovery system infrastructure, recycling, and composting, as well as Extended Producer Responsibility and other influential packaging legislation. Liz was previously Invasive Species Program Specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey and Program Coordinator for the Global Invasive Species Initiative at the Nature Conservancy. She has also consulted on issues relating to both non-native invasive species and migratory species for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America. Liz has a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University, where she focused on the growing environmental issue of non-native invasive species, and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. While completing her Master’s research, Liz learned to identify all of the terrestrial plants of Bermuda. Liz was also a White House intern during her undergraduate studies.
