research

December 1 2011
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Defra calls for two research proposals in public sector buying standards; schools and hospitals

Defra are requesting research proposals for two projects around Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering (GBS). The GBS covers sustainable sourcing, nutrition and efficiency in catering operations, including waste and energy efficiency....

April 23 2011
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Seeds4Green wiki site

In 2009, Defra joined forces with Ademe (French Environmental and Energy Management Agency) to sponsor the development of a collaborative LCA website with the technical support of the EU’s Joint Research Centre.

April 23 2011
Three calls for proposals from Defra

Defra is calling for proposals on food growing in schools, fruit and vegetable demand, and improving environmental and economic performance in the food chain.

March 10 2011
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Life cycle analysis paper: consquential and attributional LCAs

The consultancy Ecometrica have produced a very clear and useful paper - ref as follows:
Brander M, Tipper R, Hutchison C, Davis G (2008). Technical Paper: Consequential and Attributional Approaches to LCA: a Guide to Policy Makers with...

March 3 2011
Livestock grazing and soil carbon stocks

In a paper (Marriott C A, Fisher J M, Hood K and Pakeman R J (2010) 'Impacts of extensive grazing and abandonment on grassland soils and productivity' Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Volume 139, Issue 4, 476–482) the abstract states...

March 3 2011
Edible entomological environmentalism

This should get you out into the garden.  If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, you can buy a half dozen chocolate coated ants or worms at Fortnum and Mason’s for a mere £7.
 
Ooonincx G A B, van Itterbeeck J, Heetkamp M J W, van den...

March 3 2011
Estimating the greenhouse gas footprint of Knorr

This papers show how the LCA team at Unilever has gone about task of trying to calculate the GHG footprint of its Knorr product range by main product types.

March 3 2011
Product carbon footprinting

This paper (Plassmann K, Norton A, Attazadeh N, Jensen M P, Brenton P and Edwards-Jones G (2010). Methodological complexities of product carbon footprinting:a sensitivity analysis of key variables in a developing country context,...

March 3 2011
Modelling the impacts of a health diet on CVD and cancer.

This paper is by some of the same authors who wrote a paper for Friend of the Earth a few months ago (see mailing of 23/10/10) which modelled the health impact of a lower meat diet. You can read the FoE report...

March 3 2011
Uncertainty around climate change

Uncertainty around climate change is communicated in a paper entitled, Morton T A, Rabinovich A, Marshall D. Bretschneider (2011) The future that may (or may not) come: How framing changes responses to uncertainty in climate change communications...