Living Product Challenge Tools #2 The Handprint Calculator & Product Life Database Webinar

The Living Product Challenge Tools #2 The Handprint Calculator & Product Life Database Webinar will take place online via WebEx on September 24th at 9:00 AM. The Living Product Challenge (LPC) includes several imperatives that call on manufacturers to establish a plan for reducing the product’s footprint and creating handprints that ultimately exceed the product’s remaining footprint.
How can handprints be created, and how can their magnitude be estimated and communicated? This webinar will answer these questions and show participants how to use the new and publicly available Handprint Calculator website. The handprint calculator is a tool that enables manufacturers to begin to estimate the handprints that they can generate by improving the life cycle environmental performance of their products. As with the footprint calculator, users can consider a comprehensive set of impact categories including climate change, water consumption, human health impacts, ecosystem impacts, and more. It allows users to upload LCA results for the product before and after the handprint – creating innovation or action, for each of four phases of the product life cycle: upstream (supply chain), production, use, and end-of-use. And it allows users to assess the impacts of multiple innovations, one at a time, and to compare their impacts.

This webinar will also introduce attendees to the Product Life Database, a compendium of publicly-obtained information related to the use phase of consumer products which enable the use phase to be taken into account along with pre-use and end-of-use impacts when doing footprint and handprinting analysis. This workshop is one in a series of five workshops regarding the Living Product Challenge. For more information on the full series please visit: Living Product Challenge Workshops Series.

Learning objectives: Be able to explain and calculate a product’s handprint; Know how to find and use the Handprint Calculator tool; Be able to compare the handprints achieved by different product-related innovations and understand how handprints of product innovations unfold over time; and Be able to obtain and make use of the Product Life Database.