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Life Cycle Assessment: Whats our true impact on the Planet | Material Minds with Matthias Finkbeiner

Have you ever calculated the environmental cost of every pair of socks you own or every flight you’ve taken since birth? In this episode of Material Minds, we sit down with Professor Matthias Finkbeiner, head of the Sustainable Engineering Department at TU Berlin and a world-leading researcher in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). We dive deep into the science of assessing impact "from cradle to grave," covering everything from the carbon footprint of high-altitude marble mining in Italy to the complex social impacts of lithium mining in Chile. Professor Finkbeiner also shares the fascinating story of conducting the first detailed LCA of a human being—an entrepreneur who wanted to leave the planet with zero environmental debt. 00:00 – Intro: Assessing your life from cradle to grave 01:23 – What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)? 02:29 – Game: Three Truths and a Lie 02:53 – Statement 1: The Pop Star Tour 09:47 – Statement 2: The High-Altitude Marble Mine 16:07 – Statement 3: The Billionaire Boardroom Training 19:44 – Statement 4: The First LCA of a Human Being 28:39 – The Reveal: Which one was the Lie? 32:32 – Object: Lithium from the Atacama Desert 35:48 – The Rise of Social LCA 41:29 – The Future of Sustainability Intelligence To get to know what our host, Shrikrishnan Sankaran, does, check out his group's webpage – https://www.leibniz-inm.de/en/researc... You can also find him on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/shrikrishnan..., LinkedIn (  / shrikrishnans  , and Instagram (  / shirish.sankaran  ) To get to know more about Matthias Finkbeiner: (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthia...) (https://scholar.google.com/citations?...) We don't mention who it is, but if you're interested, you can check out the work of Dr. Dirk C. Gratzel and his book, Projekt Green Zero (https://greenzero.eu/) To get to know more about the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, visit us at https://www.leibniz-inm.de/en/ or find us on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/leibnizinm.b..., LinkedIn (  / inm-leibniz-institute-for-new-materials  , and Instagram (  / leibniz_inm  ) Recording and editing by INM's communication designer, Lars Knaack – https://www.leibniz-inm.de/en/staff/b... Editorial work: Dr. Gun Woo Park – https://www.leibniz-inm.de/mitarbeite... 🎧 More Material Minds episodes:    • Material Minds   #SciencePodcast #LifeCycleAssessment #Sustainability #LeibnizINM #MaterialMinds #Lithium #EnvironmentalScience #CarbonFootprint