The Australian Ecolabel Program is dedicated to improving the environmental performance of Australian industry. The Programs standards are based on LCA data when it is available from an Australian perspective. 

The below resources can aid in identifying the environmental loads of a product along the life cycle as a first step in designing products which don't cost the Earth.  

Australian LCA Resources: 

The premier Life Cycle Assessment inventory datasets for Australia have been released as draft versions by RMIT.

Industrial Ecology Principles 

Design for Environment is an ongoing program of Environment Australia.

Note - The Below Links Will Take You away From Our Site 
Some are quite old and have a European Focus 

Academic

CML, Centre of Environmental Science, Leiden University

CPM, Centre for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems,

University of Twente, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Thermal Engineering

Ecole des Mines, Centre d'Energetique

MIT, Technology, Business and Environment Program (TBE)

Energy and Resources Group, University of California Berkeley

Open University of the Netherlands, Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Institut für industrielle Ökologie

LHTEE, Laboratory of Heat transfer and Environmental Engineering, Dep. of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Environmental Science

CSERGE, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

IVAM, Environmental Research University of Amsterdam

 

Consulting Firms

CIT Ekologik, Stiftelsen Chalmers Industriteknik

CML

COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners AS

Ecobilan

Ecosite

ESU publications

Franklin Associates Ltd.

Kohmei Halada's LCA/Ecodesign hotlist

LCANET

SETAC

Steven Young's LCA Website

SustainAbility Ltd

TU Delft

VITO 

 

Government

French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, LCA & Green Goods Team

BUWAL, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft,

Electricité de France, Direction Etudes et Recherches,  Dept SE

IPTS, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies,  EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Directorate General JRC

EMPA, Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, Ecology Department

 

 

Institutes

dk-TEKNIK ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Energy Technology (ESU)

Institute for Product Development, IPU, Life Cycle Centre

Silsoe Research Institute

KCL, The Finnish Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Environmental Protection Department.

INETI, Institute of Energy Technology

VTT  Chemical Technology

VITO, Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek
Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineeringy and Packaging

Fraunhofer-Institute for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicolgy (Institut Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie)

ECN, Netherlands Energy Research Foundation
Energy Engineering Department

Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research, ISI

Battelle Europe

Environment Canada, Section: National Office of Pollution Prevention

SIK, The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology

Allianz Centre for Technology

IVF, The Swedish Institute of Production Engineering Research

ISBI, Danish Building Research Institute

 

Industry/case studies

AFNOR, Association Francaise de Normalisation

Alloyed steels

Alloying Elements in Steel

APME, Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe

Bewertungsmethoden

Cotton T-Shirt LCA

Download Eco-indicator 95 Report

Eco-indicator 95

EcoPro/Umberto

EcoSite

ICI

IFEFCO, European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufactures

IISI, International Iron and Steel Institute

LCA methodology

LCA of a car

LCAnet Food

Misc. Inventory Data

Normalisation Values for Europe

OECD Environmental Directorate

Online LCA caculator of food consumption (in German)

Residential home LCA

SETAC-Europe, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Europe

SMS - Swedish Materials and Mechanics Standards

Steelmaking Emissions

The Aluminum Association

U.S. Industry Sector Environmental Reports
UK Emission factors database

Valuation methods

VCI, Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V.

WBCSD, World Business Council for Sustainable Development