2024 Sustainability Series

sustainability series 2024

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NLGI SUSTAINABILITY The NLGI Sustainability live. webpage is now

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Sustainability Series topics for the next few issues of The Spokesman will focus on an update from each of the following sub-groups: MARCH/APRIL 2024 Identifying and Measuring Footprint, Handprint and Life-Cycle Analysis MAY/JUNE 2024 Getting Regular Updates from Experts in the Field of Sustainability JULY/AUG 2024 Environmental, Health and Safety Implications in the Grease Industry Interested in joining a sub-group? Contact NLGI@nlgi.org.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Amber Dzikowicz, Chair | Dwaine (Greg) Morris, Co-Chair Martin Birze | Casey Budd | Chad Chichester | Andreas Dodos | Mehdi Fathi-Najafi | Cassie Fhaner Muibat Gbadamosi Ph.D. | Jim Hunt | Joe Kaperick | Siri Kore | Constantin Madius | Ravi Menton | Joshua Sheffield 29 - O’Halloran Staff Liaison: -Crystal NLGI Spokesman | VOLUME 87, NUMBER 6 | January/February 2024

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NLGI SUSTAINABILITY The NLGI Sustainability live. webpage is now

VISIT IT HERE.

Sustainability Series topics for the next few issues of The Spokesman will focus on an update from each of the following sub-groups: MAY/JUNE 2024 Identifying and Measuring Footprint, Handprint and Life-Cycle Analysis JULY/AUG 2024 Getting Regular Updates from Experts in the Field of Sustainability SEPT/OCT 2024 Environmental, Health and Safety Implications in the Grease Industry Interested in joining a sub-group? Contact NLGI@nlgi.org.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Amber Dzikowicz, Chair | Dwaine (Greg) Morris, Co-Chair Craig Bay | Casey Budd | Chad Chichester | Andreas Dodos | Mehdi Fathi-Najafi | Cassie Fhaner | Muibat Gbadamosi Ph.D. Joe Kaperick | Siri Kore | Constantin Madius | Ravi Menton | Joshua Sheffield | Yingdi Yuan Staff Liaison: Crystal O’Halloran

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Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.* Update from Identifying and Measuring Footprint, Handprint and Life-Cycle Analysis Sub-Group In the short term, the sub-group is busy digging into identifying what each of their own organizations are doing in terms of measuring footprint and handprint. We are looking to gain industry insights through our sub-group members to advise though NLGI how the great industry should measure handprint and footprint.

Once inputs are obtained, the sub-group will develop standardized language documents. These documents will be rolled out for use by NLGI members along with LCA educational opportunities for the industry and to review use of documents.

If you or someone from your company has experience with LCA, we’d love to have you join this sub-group.

Contact nlgi@nlgi.org.

Interested in learning more about the Sustainability Committee?

Look for the green buttons at the upcoming Annual Meeting and ask us what we are working on.

Interested in joining a sub-group? Contact nlgi@nlgi.org.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Amber Dzikowicz, Chair | Dwaine (Greg) Morris, Co-Chair Craig Bay | Casey Budd | Chad Chichester | Andreas Dodos | Mehdi Fathi-Najafi | Cassie Fhaner | Gareth Fish Muibat Gbadamosi Ph.D. | Joe Kaperick | Siri Kore | Constantin Madius | Joshua Sheffield | Yingdi Yuan Staff Liaison: Crystal O’Halloran *Definition from the United Nations

- 25 NLGI Spokesman | VOLUME 88, NUMBER 2 | May/June 2024

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) aims to quantify the environmental impacts that arise from material inputs and outputs, such as energy use or air emissions, over a product’s entire life cycle to assist consumers in making decisions that will benefit the environment.* Update from Sustainability Subcommittee #2: Regular Updates from Experts in the Fields of Sustainability, Webinars and Publications Subcommittee #2 was developed to provide the NLGI member companies with resources and information from experts in the field of sustainability. This Subcommittee’s goals focus on openly sharing information from the NLGI Sustainability Committee, along with sharing sustainability related information within the industry.

The NLGI Sustainability Committee will be releasing a series of articles on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the Sustainability Series over the next year. Each article in the series will dive a little deeper into the different aspects of LCA. The series consists of the following topics: • The Foundations of Sustainability • The Gate to the Grave Losses in Use • Performance, Reliability and Sustainability Impacts • Applied Sustainability Stay tuned for The Foundations of Sustainability in the September/October issue of the Spokesman.

Do you have any sustainability related topics that you are interested in sharing with NLGI members? Interested in learning more about the NLGI Sustainability Committee or participating in a Subcommittee? Contact NLGI@nlgi.org.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Amber Dzikowicz, Chair | Dwaine (Greg) Morris, Co-Chair Craig Bay | Casey Budd | Chad Chichester | Andreas Dodos | Cassie Fhaner | Gareth Fish Muibat Gbadamosi Ph.D. | Joe Kaperick | Siri Kore | Constantin Madius | Joshua Sheffield | Yingdi Yuan Staff Liaison: Crystal O’Halloran - 59 - Tool *Definition from U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Sustainable Facilities NLGI Spokesman | VOLUME 88, NUMBER 3 | July/August 2024