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We would love to have an ongoing mechanism for consultants to network with one another, share ideas, ask questions, etc.

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More ways to convert "strange" metrics form LCA into common equivalencies (build on ECOED's work)

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ACLCA could provide training to non-LCA stakeholders so people can be more prepared to engage in the scope and goal definition and interpretation of LCA work

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Twice a year (?) have time with experts where we can bring in data/results we need to share and get work together on how to visualize those results

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Extend EPA equivalency to other impact indicators 

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Extend EPA equivalency to other impact indicators 

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EPA carbon footprint equivalency is good tool to convey results but this need to extend further to other impact indicators

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Dynamically interactive walkthrough or tutorial of the graphic. Similar to the tutorial that often shows up when accessing an app or webpage for the first time.

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Numbers are opaque to the majority of people. Have the numbers available but skillfully presented at various appropriate levels.

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Not sure if we can convince other's to change their perceived mission...

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Connect with their conference/LCA tracks or working groups

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We need the simple map (glossary)to convert LCA lingo and jargon into clear, common language - understandable, not legalistic

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Use the power of coaltions - ALCLA Policy Committee is fairly diverse, and can invite in groups like US Chamber to join us for either committee meetings or how we can supplement their LCA knowledge.

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Use the power of coaltions - ALCLA Policy Committee is fairly diverse, and can invite in groups like US Chamber to join us for either committee meetings or how we can supplement their LCA knowledge.

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Make it relatable!! No matter how or who you are communicating with, make it relatable.

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Make it relatable!! No matter how or who you are communicating with, make it relatable.

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Put "LCA" everywhere to inspire people to want to learn what it is and does.

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Trade groups, even media like movies, TV shows, docuseries, etc. Help spread the good word of LCA.

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Trade groups, even media like movies, TV shows, docuseries, etc. Help spread the good word of LCA.

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Partner with different expert communicators

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Partner with different expert communicators

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Experts in:

Computer graphics
Digital modeling
Information design
Info graphics
Etc...

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Need good glossaries to relate our lingo to common language - that is still correct but simple and conssistant - and not as dry as ISO!

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Always keep our focus on students, recent grads, and expanding their opportunities to advance LCT through our ACLCA community

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Always keep our focus on students, recent grads, and expanding their opportunities to advance LCT through our ACLCA community

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Serve as a center for a resource repository from all stakeholders in ACLCA for all LCA stakeholders to access, need to be organized and easy to access

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Industry Standard Images and Comparison Tools

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Industry Standard Images and Comparison Tools

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Similar to the relatable image of the soccer field. It would be nice to have a common set of comparison images that are universally recognized and provide the same level of concern across boarders.

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1)      ACLCA community effort to take brainstorms from this conference to make best practices for communication

a.       colors, relatable frameworks (e.g., SDGs & equivalency calculators), animations, multi-sensory, simplicity, inclusivity

b.      bringing in designers

c.       hire Chris Jordan

d.      Data visualization

e.      learn from others, e.g., Nat’l geographic, data is beautiful, making shift happen

f.        better understand the audience

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Host a repository for useful LCA graphics

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Host a repository for useful LCA graphics

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Way to keep communication channels open between conferences

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Way to keep communication channels open between conferences

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Maybe an online discussion board

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Mom-friendly explanations. Start with the benefit to the listener (so what) and after that go into the technical details (what)

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Better organize the resources you already offer, as well as put together small industry committees to generate and maintain a list of resources relevant to specific industries. Make this a central repository of information/resources that anyone can reference

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Create a plan on what organizationos to connect with then reach out

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Create a plan on what organizationos to connect with then reach out

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Provide some sort of platform or contact form where students can easily access information/resources about ACLCA (two students in our group said they emailed regarding student committees / joining and never heard back)

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Something like psychrometric charts for rough estimations when comparing several options (https://humiditycontrol.com/psychrometric-chart/)

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A psychrometric chart represents the psychrometric properties of air. With this chart, engineers can better assess psychrometric processes and find practical solutions. While this chart looks complicated and even intimidating, it's actually quite helpful and simple to understand once you grasp the basic properties of air. If you know two parameters of air where the lines will cross each other, the psychrometric chart can do the rest of the work for you.

The Benefits of Using a Psychrometric Chart Correctly

A psychrometric chart prevents engineers from spending time on tedious mathematical formulas. While there are online calculators and applications to help make calculations, using the chart correctly provides engineers with a more accurate reading as long as you know two parameters of air. Knowing how to read a psychrometric chart is a wise skill for engineers to have in the event that technology fails or isn't available.

What Are the Parts of a Psychrometric Chart?

A psychrometric chart consists of eight standard parts, including:

Temperatures

- This is the temperature reading found on a typical thermometer. You can find a psychrometric chart that offers these temperature ranges:

Low temperatures that range from -20 degrees FDB to 50 degrees FDB

Normal temperatures that range from 20 degrees FDB to 100 degrees FDB

High temperatures that range from 60 degrees FDB to 250 degrees FDB

- This is a typical thermometer's standard reading if the sensing bulb is covered with a wet wick or sock and exposed to air flow.

- At this temperature, moisture starts condensing from the air.

Specific Volume & Density - Specific volume is measured in cubic feet per pound. This refers to the amount of space air occupies per pound of weight.

Enthalpy - This is the measurement of heat energy. Enthalpy is measured by Btu (British thermal unit) per pound of dry air.

Sensible Heat Ratio - This is the total sensible heat flow divided by the total heat flow.

Sensible Heat Flow - 60(specific heat of air in Btu/lb ºF (0.24 at 72ºF))(density of air in lb/ft³)(air flow in ft³/min)(| supply air temperature - conditioned room temperature |)

Latent Heat Flow - 60(latent heat of vaporization of water in Btu/lb (970 at sea level))(density of air in lb/ft³)(air flow in ft³/min)(humidity ratio difference in lb water/lb dry air)

Moisture Content - Also known as the humidity ratio, this is the total weight of water vapor per pound of dry air.

Relative Humidity - This refers to the percentage of water vapor per pound of dry air in relation to how much the air can hold at its current temperature.

Vapor Pressure - Vapor pressure is measured in inches of mercury and represents the pressure exerted by water vapor in air.

Standard Air Dot - This dot marks the measurement for standard air. Standard air is typically 70 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 54% and 60 gr/lb of specific humidity.

How to Read a Psychrometric Chart

A psychrometric chart can easily be read by following these steps:

Step 1: Locate the dry bulb temperature. This will be measured in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius and will be along the bottom axis. Also identify the vertical line for each temperature.

Step 2: Locate the humidity ratio, sometimes labeled as a mixing ratio. This will be along the right vertical axis. Humidity ratio units are grains of moisture per pound of dry air or grams of moisture per kilogram of dry air.

Step 3: Located the left-most curved line. This refers to the saturation curve where relative humidity is 100%.

Step 4: Locate the interior curved lines, which represent percentage levels of relativity humidity.

Step 5: Locate the dew point. This is a vertical line on the right side of the chart. These lines traverse the chart as horizontal lines.

Step 6: On the other side of the dew point's vertical line is the vapor pressure scale. Vapor pressure lines also traverse the chart as horizontal lines.

Step 7: On all outer sides of the chart, you'll see scales representing enthalpy. With a ruler, you can match the scales across the chart.

Step 8: Find the second set of diagonal lines which identify wet bulb temperature. Though these lines are close to the enthalpy lines, they're not actually parallel.

When using Airtable's PDF psychrometric chart, there are some formational aspects to be aware of. First, the properties of air indicated in the chart are calculated at standard atmospheric pressure. For other pressures, relevant corrections have to be applied.

Also note that the relative humidity lines are the curves extending from the lower left to the upper right portion of the chart. The relative humidity curves indicate different values of humidity measured in percentage. The value of relative humidity reduces from left to right.
For more industry recommendations and how-to guides, check out our other posts here.

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Psychrometric Chart Use | Parameter Generation & Control

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A psychrometric chart represents the psychrometric properties of air. With this chart, engineers can better assess psychrometric processes and find practical solutions. While this chart looks complicated and even intimidating, it's actually quite helpful and simple to understand once you grasp the basic properties of air.

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It isn't clear to me what exactly the mission for ACLCA is. I remember there was a strategic plan presented last year. It is hard to find it now. It would be great to have that and a missions statement as front and center with the ACLCA activities, committee work, and the conference.  I think that could help guide the answers to questions 1 and 2. Who are the stakeholders? What do we provide to them? etc.

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ACLCA can help to connect with different subject matter experts across different organizations

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Express LCA metrics in ways folks can understand and act upon. Can we relate to planetary resource limits? Can we relate to everyday use of products, in quantities people can relate to? Can we visualize flows in intuitive ways?

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Grants to different sectors can build more engagement.

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We need to mainstream LCA in the media so people become interested.

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make ACLCA website our platform for best practices, jobs, finding experts, reading news, etc.

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engage with lower education - start early - kids not just adults

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Library, school, church, &c

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Stay close to the EU PEF initiative as it is going to shape grately how our organizations will conduct LCA tomorrow

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Stay close to the EU PEF initiative as it is going to shape grately how our organizations will conduct LCA tomorrow

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Better integration with students, especially undergraduate students

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Better integration with students, especially undergraduate students

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Maybe establish partnerships with colleges and universities to bring awareness specific to an industry

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Including strategic plan! Only available for those in a specific committee or working group. Share the great work of the committee and org!

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Experience based trainings/tutorials, ex. introductory training for newbies. "Getting started with LCA." or "Advanced communication for experienced LCA practitioners"

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Have a repository of (awesome) graphics we can all use to communicate LCA.

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Establish guidance to supplement ISO standards on tricky issues in LCA (e.g., biogenic carbon, recycling, attribution vs. consequential, etc.)

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Establish guidance to supplement ISO standards on tricky issues in LCA (e.g., biogenic carbon, recycling, attribution vs. consequential, etc.)

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Twitter LCA discussion channel to connect with other members of the ACLCA to discuss recent topics and megatrends

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outreach to undergraduate students in many fields, not just technical ones

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Coordination with corporate reporting initiatives 

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Coordination with corporate reporting initiatives 

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Better leverage ACLCA members existing knowledge of other groups

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Better leverage ACLCA members existing knowledge of other groups

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Newer ACLCA members are not aware of the other conferences and groups, that I know some existing members are aware of. Perhaps create of list of these other groups and conferences, and a contact list of ACLCA members that have more information on them?

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Focus more on SYSTEMS THINKING and less on LCA -....LCA for activation, LCT for conceptualizing the world as it is and as it could be.

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Sponsor student projects, awards, or scholarships 

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Sponsor student projects, awards, or scholarships 

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AATCC has opportunities for undergrads and graduate students to engage through student challenges. Also student paper competition at conference

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Bring in industry groups where we (the LCA community) see the most potential benefit for our results.

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Standardization of methods and data to the maximum extent possible

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Standardization of methods and data to the maximum extent possible

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It could be helpful to reduce costs for students (and possibly newer professors from universities) participating in the conference.

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If you save cups, talk about cups saved. Don't compare it to planting trees, bacause people will understand that you ACTUALLY planted trees. Also, it is not a precise comparison.

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Have LCA practitioners work with designers, artists, etc. to create templates that can be leveraged to present results.

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It would be great to include some LCA general results in movies and TV series.

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We use LCA to avoided burden shifting. If we only report the carbon, we might lose sight of that.

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Use the ACLCA website as a central hub of information

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Use the ACLCA website as a central hub of information

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Would be great to use the website to store presentations, standards, tools, etc. so that is accessible. It is very difficult to find past ACLCA presentations and current standards/tools.

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Compare to a base case so it is easier to look at the changes.

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Long-term idea- set up non-profit to engage with policies; fund scholarships; celebrate LCA through public recognition

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Engage designers & research scientists developing the enabling technologies

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Engage designers & research scientists developing the enabling technologies

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The LCA community is beginning to engage with product designers, but we could still increase this engagement. Also, engagement with the research scientists developing the energy / energy efficient technologies of tomorrow will be essential. Some of those groups are minimally aware of LCA even though the purpose of their research may be energy/environmental impact minimization.

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there are going to be emerging topics around LCA, the value of it and its application, to a variety of fields. it would be great to have ACLCA facilitate connecting all SME stakeholders (academia, consultants, NGOs, etc.) to have a seat at the table on specific topics, to form a unified view point as part of this bigger community.

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Design lessons (see cotton sustainability for examples) and get AP to include in curriculum for HS students

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We can gather people locally for occasional meet up/ dinner, have a presentation, etc

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Make it easy for companies to find consultants and/or academics/students to work on anything related to LCA: LCA practitioners, writers/artists/communicators, graphic designers who understand LCA results, etc. And vice versa.

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It would be great to present the result from a perspective of a person would would be effective

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The inclusion of arts-related talks was great! I would have loved to see them go into more depth (esp. Chris Jordan on the philosophy behind his art). Would it be possible to have an entire conference track dedicated to arts next year? Bring back plenary keynotes on the big new ideas in LCA/sustainability and use one of the concurrent track sessions for the arts.

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So many hashtags ... so many perspectives that we're missing at ACLCA. I've seen other scientific societies keep an index of relevant hashtags and usernames. Could ACLCA consider something like this? Where could we all contribute to such a list?

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I would LOVE to see a series of science communication workshops throughout the year, focused on LCA issues. Examples: inclusivescicomm.org, compassscicomm.org, and recommendations from either org.

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Visual and physical representations- art, graphics, video, theatre, story telling. All publicised and distributed widely and well.

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Visual and physical representations- art, graphics, video, theatre, story telling. All publicised and distributed widely and well.

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Strong, intentional focus on Partnerships.

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Strong, intentional focus on Partnerships.

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Focus on the mindset change- continue the focus on the arts and add psychology.

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Focus on the mindset change- continue the focus on the arts and add psychology.