ABSTRACT
The functional unit is the consumption of resources and the production of waste of Sieben Linden community in 2014, considered as a whole and without distinctions according to age, status, gender or other categories. However, the amount of food consumed by Sieben Linden residents – even when they are in the ecovillage – is somewhat underestimated as some residents happen to buy some of their foodstuff outside the village, or occasionally have pizza delivered to their homes. In all the remainder categories Sieben Linden fares significantly better than the average Values for services are by definition the same, as we employed the national average value for Sieben Linden as well; whereas we were not able to assess the impact of “other services” for Sieben Linden. Different environmental impact accounting methodologies exist; however, just a few are able to account for the whole impact of a specific lifestyle.
