If you missed the webinar, "LCAs for Food: Don’t put a square peg in a round hole," the recording is available here. The webinar slides can be accessed here.

Panelists included:

• Sara Pax, President of Bluehorse Associates. Sara is a leader with a successful history of entrepreneurship, business development, and project implementation. She has over 10 years of experience in fair trade, sustainable business development, and organic and fair trade certification.

• Tom Beeston, Managing Partner, Eat England. Tom Beeston has been described as knowing more about the food industry and sustainability than anyone else around: certainly proven as being an adaptable and commercially astute food industry expert, now focussed on delivering cutting edge corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business development for specialist food businesses.

• John Connors, CEO of Supply Chain Carbon Council. With over 12 years focused on the Supply Chain John’s career has been focused on working on research projects dealing with the application of technologies that have the potential to bring more visibility to supply chain operations.

• Melissa Moore Hamilton, Director at EarthShift. Under her guidance, EarthShift has grown into an industry leader in life cycle analysis and total cost assessment, two key methodologies integral to sustainable business practices.

During this webinar, panelists explored how your company can match its sustainability objectives to its motivations.

The session reviewed legislation and standards associated with product sustainability, and examined what you need to know to ensure your organization is compliant.

The panelists also discussed how LCA tools are not created equally.

Here are the questions that came in, that we did not have time to address during the live session:

• Can the panellists talk about business participation in developing product category rules/sector guidance and trends they see in this area?
• I feel LCA should be combined with other type of certifications that demonstrate changes at farm level for example effective use of inputs, water management, soil conservation practices etc. Some certification schemes could be integrated for example FSC for forest products, Rainforest Alliance or organic for agricultural products and that could potentially show changes from conventional to sustainable farming for tropical products for example. What is the take of the panel on this?
• How would you market the importance of knowing what you're purchasing and where its coming from to the average person who doesn't 'care' or isn't aware?
• What do you mean by peer reviewed tool? / I shall rephrase who did your peer review?
• Is there any lca data about services, rather than only products?

Please post any further questions below.