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agriculture 39, 44, 107–22, 162 conferences 15
air quality 48 consumer behaviour 144–45, 168–69
Alcan 142 consumption 38–39, 168–69
American Plastics Council 40 cooling efficiency 76–77
Australian environment 43–49 corn chip production 113–16
Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) 10 cradle-to-grave analysis 2
Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society
(ALCAS) 15, 19 dairy industry 112–13
Australian Life Cycle Inventory Database decision support 33–40, 149
(AusLCI) 10, 17–19 design process 143–44, 162–63
Australian Stocks and Flows Framework
(ASFF) 39, 82, 166 E2 vector 38–39
eco-design 142, 144, 147, 153, 155, 157
bags, shopping 27, 54, 66–72 eco-footprint 5, 45–46, 109
biodiversity 45, 47, 48, 108 Eco-indicator model 46–47
biofuels 12–13, 35–36, 131–35 eco-labels 38, 145, 169
biomass 131–35 Eco-Quantum 88
BIOMITRE project 125, 133 EcoReDesign Demonstration Project 11
biopolymers 27, 36, 40 elementary flows 25, 27
bioproductive capacity 45–46 energy generation 131–33
bio-sequestration 127–30, 134–35 energy maps 101–102
‘bottom-up’ process analysis 25–26 energy use 38, 45
Building Assemblies and Materials Environmental Code of Practice for
Scorecard (BAMS) 86–87 Packaging (EcoPP) 148
building design 75–80 environmental corporate report 5
building design tools 77, 88, 89 environmental costs, of buildings 78–86
building regulations 76–77 environmental impact 4, 38–39
buildings, impacts of 19, 75–89 environmental management 4–5
built environment 75–90 environmental reporting systems 5
business 163
butter 95–96 food miles 116–18, 122
forests 128–30
Calcas 30 forums 14–15, 17
carbon accounting 125–27, 136–38 fuels 12–13, 19, 35–36, 131–35
carbon offsets 127–30, 134–35 functional unit 24, 37–38, 55, 164, 166
carpet 4 functionality 37–38
climate change responses 125–38
clothes, cleaning 37–38 glass 19, 52, 53, 55, 59, 61, 65
Complex Systems Theory 34 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 5
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