Highlights NEW!

• IDFA Questions Fairness of Cap-and-Trade Program in House Climate Bill, 6/29/09
• Frye Joins Industry Experts to Review Direction for Global Dairy Platform, 6/22/09
• Worldwide Food Expo Educational Sessions Taking Shape, 6/8/09
• EPA Proposes Mandatory Reporting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 4/6/09
• 'Guru of Green Business Practices' to Speak at Worldwide Food Expo, 3/30/09
• Thank You, Sustainability Workshop Sponsors!, 3/16/09
• Worldwide Food Expo to Showcase Ingredient Innovations and Sustainability, 3/9/09
• Industry Agrees on Initiative for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 3/2/09

Dairy Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

Life cycle analysis (LCA) is the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a specific product or service triggered or necessitated by its existence.

• First Life Cycle Assessment of Milk Production from New Zealand Dairy Farm Systems
• UK LCA
• Sweden LCA

Dairy UK

• Dairy UK Website
  • The Milk Roadmap May 2008 NEW!
  • Benchmarking Water Use in Dairies

Case Studies

• Solution Dynamics — Boiler Efficiency Improvement
• Solution Dynamics — Compressed Air System
• Solution Dynamics — Boiler Condensing Economizer
• Solution Dynamics — Lighting Improvement
• Vigilistics — Improved Sustainability in a Milk Powder Plant
• Vigilistics Helps to Improve Sustainability in a Fluid Milk Dairy Plant
• Gannett Fleming — Product Recovery System
• Hixson — Fluid Milk Waste Minimization
• Solution Dynamics — Industrial Refrigeration
• Solution Dynamics — Energy Project Development

Dairy Industry Awards, Efforts and Positions

• Clover Stornetta Farms, Inc.
• Aurora Dairy
• Ben & Jerry's
• Fonterra
• Humboldt Creamery

Wal-Mart Initiatives and Viewpoints

• Wal-Mart's Sustainability Efforts

GE Initiatives

• GE Ecomagination
  • Jenbacher Biogas
  • Wind Turbines

Metrics - How and what other companies are doing

• The Cold Front - IRC Vol. 7 No. 4 Newsletter
• Sustainability's Social Footprint - Can sustainability reporting be meaningful?
• Climate Counts
• The Carbon Disclosure Project

Dairy Farm Information

• ATTRA

In the News

• Northeast Dairy Leadership Team Discusses Dairy's Role in Sustainability Movement
• New Harris Teeter Unit Sports Breakthrough Compact Refrigeration System
• How the Myth of Food Miles Hurts the Planet
• "Declaring a 'Sustainability' Major," NBC Nightly News video (2:23 mins)
• FTC Sets Sights On Green Packaging Claims
• Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy
• PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure

Other Informational Links

• T. Boone Pickens' Renewable Energy Plan
• The Climate Registry
• Software Aids Dairies in Reducing Water, Energy Waste
• DOE Natural Gas Weekly Update
• EPA Sustainability
• BASF Sustainability

For more information, contact Clay Detlefsen, IDFA vice president of regulatory affairs and counsel, at cdetlefsen@idfa.org or 202-220-3554.