(Mpls, MN) - Dovetail Partners, a Minneapolis-based environmental group, announces the certification of its Associate Ecologist, Sarah Stai, as a Senior Ecologist with the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

“I’m excited to share the news of Dr. Stai’s achievement. Her accomplishments help support the Dovetail mission to address the diverse impacts of environmental decisions. They also highlight the importance we place on staying current with new challenges and maintaining the highest professional standards,” says Kathryn Fernholz, Executive Director of Dovetail Partners.

Recently a reader commented that he often met people who didn’t trust life cycle assessment (LCA), because they felt every time this method was used to compare wood to some other material, wood came out as the more environmentally friendly material.  The suggestion was that to produce such consistent results LCA must be somehow biased in favor of wood.  The reader felt that this was a lot like saying scientific nutritional research must be biased because every time scientists compare broccoli to cheese puffs, broccoli comes out as being better for you.  The reader questioned why people were still skeptical about the benefits of wood in the face of such seemingly conclusive evidence. What are we missing?

Read the full commentary at: http://dovetailinc.org/content/bridging-environmental-information