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Navigating Environmental Product Data

"Collaborations between landscape architects, specifiers, and product manufacturers can accelerate changes that will reduce our collective impacts" ¡ª Amy Syverson-Shaffer, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, and Sasha Anemone, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.

Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Fund have developed:

Navigating Environmental Product Data: A Guide for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Industry Partners
  

GUIDE (PDF)

Authors

Amy Syverson-Shaffer, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ,
Sasha Anemone, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ,

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The products and materials that landscape architects specify for their projects play a significant role in the overall global warming potential (GWP) of a project. They can also impact biodiversity, air and water quality.

The guide outlines how environmental product declarations (EPDs) and other environmental reporting can be used to understand the environmental impacts of landscape materials and products and make decisions to reduce those impacts.

It defines the standard types of environmental data that are applicable to landscape design and construction and helps landscape architects navigate product and material research.

Landscape architects will learn about EPDs and other types of reporting and how they can inform decision making.

Product manufacturers seeking to develop EPDs will gain new insights.   

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