Doing LCAs and comparisons
Detailed instructions for using Earthster
30 articles
- Benefits of having a full Ecoinvent licenseHaving a full Ecoinvent license gives extra features for the license holder.
- Using other Organization's cycles as a template or a starting pointSave other users' cycles as your own cycle to use them as templates
- What does μ, n and m mean in front of the impact category unit?We utilise standard metric unit prefixes for showing numeric values.
- Educational assignmentsLCA assignments with automated scoring
Doing LCAs at scale
Earthster has multiple features that help you 10x your LCA productivity and do LCAs at scale.
- Replicate and update cycles in bulkReplicate your cycles to do LCAs at scale
- GeneratorCreate and manage product LCAs at scale with your bill-of-material files
- Data Quality AssessmentEvaluate how well your data sources fit their purpose and meet compliance standards.
- Import documentation sections from a fileGenerate documentation sections from a word document
- The drawer - where you model your cycleThe drawer shows all the inputs of your cycle as a sortable list.
- Dynamic bundles ("All Others")Control the sensitivity of your dynamic bundles with the threshold slider
- Creating a new cycle using a templateThis article describes how to create a cycle using a template.
- Issuing a releaseA release in Earthster is a snapshot of your cycle and they help you keep track of the evolution of your cycle throughout time.
- Sharing cyclesShare your LCAs in a visual and interactive way
- Export your cycles to download your LCA dataDownload your LCA results as a PDF, CSV, XLSX, HTML
- Exporting your results with other impact categoriesDownload your cycle with IPCC 2021, EF3.1, TRACI, CED and other impact categories
- Export your cycles with EF compliant datasets (PEF)*With a full Ecoinvent license you can download the PEF datasets of your LCA model.
- Moving cycles and comparisonsYou can move cycles and comparisons to other workspaces and organizations.
- How to open a CSV file correctly in ExcelTroubleshooting incorrect CSV formatting
- ParametersUse parameters for adding variables and calculations into your LCA models
- Copy-paste parts of your cycleCopy and paste parts of your cycle within Earthster and into a spreadsheet
- Advanced actions with processesThis article describes the ways you can edit your processes.
- Custom processCreate a custom process to apply a scaling factor to a group of inputs
- Updating your data sourcesKeeping your processes and connected cycles up-to-date.
- Import as a custom processEdit processes by importing them as a custom process
- Genre labels for processesUnderstand Earthster's genre labels for datasets
- Automatic updates for data sourcesUpdate your cycles' input automatically
- PropertiesUseful for reporting non-LCA information of cycles