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GSS TBL S-LCA Benefits

There are many benefits of a TBL S-LCA:

  • Benefits for Consumers
  • Benefits for Retailers
  • Benefits for Distributors
  • Benefits for Manufacturers
  • Benefits for New Product Developers
  • Benefits for Investors
  • Benefits for CPAs

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GSS TBL S-LCA Functions

This describes the functions of the GSS Standards-based TBL LCA.

  • Choose which parts of the Triple Bottom Line you want to work with. Change weights to zero for those metrics you do not want to compare.
  • Add custom metrics by request - all of your team can now be included in your decision-making and development tracking processes 

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GSS TBL S-LCA Features

This describes some of the main features of the GSS TBL LCA.

  • we specialize in and evaluate products and services via multivariate comparative decision-making
  • multiple product / item comparison
  • multiple SDS/MDS/MSDS mixes -- and environmental impact calculations
  • create your own customized process metrics
  • data entry screens automatically created, or use batch update to load your .csv data files to your own custom specs
  • multiple graphical output formats
  • measure and optimize your entire "chain" of operations, from supply chains to delivery chains

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Frequently asked questions

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GSS-3: 3 Item Comparison FAQ

What Is a GSS-3 3-Item Comparison?

GSS makes an environmental impact comparison between 3 unique items from the same category of items (e.g. 3 different brands of tires, 3 different brands of batteries, 3 different brands of liquid cleaners, etc.).

Mother Nature takes millions of years and thousands of generations to optimize her ecosystem processes.
Why not start your process today?

If you're a consumer/organization this comparison means what you'd be getting is useful to optimize your personal life or organizational operations today.

You are paying $99.95 Retail (or $49.95 plus 15 GSS Tokens) to get the GSS 3-Item Comparison results as soon as they are evaluated. Only one (1) Coupon code or Discount or Digital Token Redemption is available per order.

NOTE: Qualifed ShareNode Members can get the discount by using 15 GSS Tokens that they have already accumulated in their wallets. (Learn more about ShareNode here: https://www.sharenode.com/teamdynamo )

You pay to get

  • The GSS-3 3-Item Comparison Summary Report, which is a summary of our analysis of over 30 different environmental impact metrics (this summary is also known as our Green Score).
     
  • (in the future), when the comparison is completed,  a more detailed 'GSS 3-Item GSS-LCA Comparison' will be  available at an additional cost, where we compare/include the items' Green Score in these categories:
    • Energy,
    • Water,
    • Material,
    • Emissions and
    • Sustainability / Circular Economy
      (reuse, recycle, repurpose, disposal)

What You Get

You get the final summary relative comparison result for the 3 items (best, middle, worst).

(in the future): Additional environmental impact (EI) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) details can be obtained via your account online for an additional fee.

(in the future): The link to the detailed LCA report is revealed after the additional fee is paid and NDA is signed (based on manufacturers' IP requirements). You then receive a link to an explanation / detailed report.

About the Form

On the form itself, here's an explanation of the field names and detailed definition of what they mean:

The Fields are:

  • Info About You:
    (we need to be able to contact you in case we have incomplete or conflicting results, based on your input)
    • Your Name
    • E-mail
    • Phone
       
  • Info About the Items you want to Compare:
    • Product Category:

      • What category of product: e.g. TV, battery, tire, NAICS Code
         

  • Item Info (Field Descriptions):

    • Product-1 Name/Model
      • The branded name and model ID code of the item
         
    • Manufacturer-1
      • The original source manufacturing entity of the item. This may not be the same as the brand name manufacturer.
         
    • UPC Code-1
      • The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.

         

    • QR Code-1
      • QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed in 1994 for the automotive industry in Japan.
      • A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. E.g.: Wikipedia QR code payment.
         
    • Quantity/Pkg-1
      • The number of items in the Package being sold
         
    • UOM-1
      • Unit of Measure (UOM) used to measure the number of items or amount of the product in the Package being sold (e.g. each, kilogram, litre, ounce, pound, gallon, etc)
         
    • Price-1 ($USD/pkg)
      • Retail Price in $USD per Package offered by the Retailer
         
    • MSDS ID-1 (SDS)
      • Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) ID or Safety Data Sheet (SDS) ID
      • NOTE: Knowing this REALLY HELPS us lock down what items you are actually comparing.
      • This is what companies use in the USA to help ensure worker safety.
      • All products sold in (or imported into) the USA are REQUIRED by Federal Law to have one of these!
         
    • Retailer-1
      • The name (or URL) of the retail company selling the item
         
    • Retailer SKU-1
      • The retailer's Store Keeper Unit (SKU) or stocking ID
         
  • Contact GSS at  Support @ greenstarstandard.com  if you have additional questions.
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How do you define "sustainability"?

Many people get stuck by what seems to be this "simple" question.

You can travel along many pathways to discover dozens of different definitions and metrics that purport to show what the term "sustainable" means.

For example, there are over 400 different business "associations" that deal with sustainability in their markets...

Does the definition include:

  • metrics meant for consumers? business? government? a combination?
     
  • does the definition's timeline address people-based systems?
     
  • is there an aspect of the definition that addresses natural capital (planetary/ecological) systems?
     
  • how does the definition address the human cultural and value system that is using it?

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This is a sample SLCA. What does a SLCA do?

SLCAs (or Sustainability Life Cycle Analysis) review, reveal and display a lot of common questions about your product, service, organization, or community. You get to choose how much or how little you wish to reveal to the world.

SLCAs allow your prospective clients, existing clients, employees, managers, investors and governments to quickly find answers to their questions without consuming your time.

To create SLCAs, click Contact and let us know that you're ready to Get Started Now.

 

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What does Green Star Standard do?

Green Star Standard is an "analytics" company.

We began as a company committed to "Saving Our Planet". That commitment and vision remains.

As we traveled down many rabbit holes and warrens, we found that to create an active, exciting business model, we learned that the hardest problems required knowledge and wisdom that was not obvious nor easily available.

Once humans have more than 3 things to contrast and compare in their head, they lose track, and must resort to spreadsheets, other people's opinions (A.K.A. marketing or propaganda), or their own accumulated survival "experience".

Green Star Standard Makes Complex Choices Easy.

By allowing humans to contrast and compare 2 or more things at a time, Green Star Standard really begins to shine when you have to compare 4 or more things simultaneously. If you have the data, whether quantitative and/or qualitative, for 2 or more type of comparisons, then you are an ideal person, company or government for using one or more of the Green Star Standard products or services!

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