Use this skill when the user provides a URL to an LCA study, a published environmental report, or a product sustainability page and wants to turn it into a product_graph.yaml they can run and explore. Also triggers when the user names a well-known LCA study…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of damage characterization — the step that goes beyond midpoint impact scores (kg CO2-eq, kg SO2-eq, PM 2.5-eq) to ask what those scores actually do to the world, in terms of three areas of protection: human health,…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of functional unit — the precise definition of what is being measured in a life cycle study. Invoke as /functional-unit followed by a case study name, for example /functional-unit wool_yarn or /functional-unit…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of goal and scope — the opening decisions in a life cycle study that define why it is being done, who it is for, and what is included or excluded. Invoke as /goal-and-scope followed by a case study name, for example…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of impact characterization — the exact maths behind life cycle impact assessment, where every emission in the inventory is multiplied by a characterization factor (a published number that can be different for every impact…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of life cycle inventory — the step where all emissions and resource uses from every process in the supply chain are collected, scaled to reflect one functional unit, and totalled into a single complete table. Invoke as…
Teaching skill for the LCA concept of life cycle stages — the four named boundary types used in fashion and retail LCA studies: cradle to gate, cradle to grave, cradle to cradle, and gate to grave. Invoke as /life-cycle-stages case-study, for example…
Use this skill whenever the user wants to perform a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) using openLCA. Triggers include: "carbon footprint of", "compare environmental impact", "LCA for", "which material has lower impact", "run an LCA", "ecoinvent dataset for", "GWP…