Rebe Feraldi
Rebe Feraldi, Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional (LCACP) has over 20 years of experience in environmental chemistry and engineering.
She specializes in industrial ecology assessment methodologies:
Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Life Cycle Assessment Reviews
Material Flow Analysis (MFA)
Green supply chain management
She also has experience in pollution prevention & remediation, waste management, and water resources management.
Rebe is a 2009 M.E.S.M graduate of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. She earned her Bachelor’s in Environmental Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines. Rebe is a LCA Certified Professional (LCACP), a Certified LCA Reviewer (CLAR), and has over ten years of experience as an LCACP and as an LCA & Sustainability Consultant. She has completed numerous industrial ecology projects and peer reviews for clients from a wide range of government agencies, private companies, and industry associations on local, regional, national, and international scales.
Prior to being an LCACP, Rebe performed LCA research, directed a water quality laboratory, served as an environmental consultant in the Peace Corps, and participated in and numerous environmental and chemistry lab and field studies – working to balance natural resource conservation, economic development and technological innovation.
Rebe’s chemistry and engineering background, professional experience, and immersion in the sustainability field provide her with a distinctive, cross-disciplinary framework and set of skills from which to draw. She is continually exploring how to improve the use of LCA and other sustainability metrics to bring more substantive insight to activities and innovations that can support our economy and critical ecosystem services infrastructure.
Identifying Synergy
“Through my LCA and sustainability work, I have become familiar with the nuances of product and service systems ranging from fuels and mineral extraction, chemical manufacturing and materials fabrication, bio-based materials and food cultivation and processing, community infrastructure and building materials and designs, electronics and renewable energy technologies, to transportation and waste management systems.
Really, anything that humans make and use we call it ‘the technosphere’ and sustainability analysts such as myself are working to identify strategies for synergism between this ‘sphere’ and the others which sustain us on our planet: the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.”
~Rebe Feraldi
Qualifications
- Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional (LCACP)
- Certified Life Cycle Assessment Reviewer (CLAR)
- Proficient in SimaPRO, GaBi, and OpenLCA modeling software
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
- International Society of Industrial Ecologists (ISIE)
- Masters in Environmental Science & Management (M.E.S.M.); Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
- B.S. in Environmental Chemistry; Minor in Environmental Science & Engineering; specialization in Biomedical Science & Engineering; Colorado School of Mines, Golden Colorado (CSM)
Accumulated Experience
2018-Present: LAC Group, in collaboration w/NREL, USLCI Data Curator
2015-Present: Independent LCA & Sustainability Consultant, TranSustainable Enterprises, LLC
2009-2015: LCA & Sustainability Analyst, Franklin Associates, A Division of ERG
2008: LCA Analyst Intern, ArcelorMittal Industrial Operations
2007-2009: Masters Thesis LCA Analyst, Bren School, UCSB & Southern California Edison (SCE)
2007: Water Quality Laboratory Director, Clinical Labs of San Bernardino, Lompoc-Division
2004-2006: Environmental Consultant/Trainer, Peace Corps Romania
2001-2003: Lab & Field Analyst, Geochemistry Department, Colorado School of Mines (CSM) & USGS-Denver
2000: Laboratory Technician/QC Intern, 3M-Adhesives Division
1998-1999: Engineer’s Assistant/Intern, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
