A holistic approach to environmental health and wellbeing initiatives . . .

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Strengthen Community Resilience and Quality of Life

Our holistic model, GeoHolistic LCA™ is a next-generation statistical modeling and visualization platform that that advances a comprehensive approach to assessing how environmental factors indoor and outdoor shape community health and adaptive capacity. It integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Social Sustainable Life Cycle Analysis (S-LCA) and community-driven storytelling narratives to provide a holistic view of environmental health, resilience, and social wellbeing of underserved vulnerable populations.

Designed for cities, researchers, nonprofits, and community leaders, the tool bridges quantitative environmental and social metrics with qualitative lived experience, making complex sustainability and resilience data human-centered, accessible, and actionable.

 

Problem Statement

Frontline communities bear a disproportionate burden from environmental stressors—extreme heat, poor air quality, inadequate housing, water insecurity, and climate risks. Yet most data tools:

  • Focus on either environmental metrics or social outcomes, but not both.

  • Lack holistic frameworks that integrate environmental health, culture, history, wellbeing, and community identity.

  • Offer little accessibility for non-technical community users, despite the fact that these users are most affected.

  • Exclude storytelling, which conveys lived experience, history, and intergenerational knowledge essential to equitable policy.

Traditional LCA tools analyze systems and impacts but rarely account for social vulnerability, cultural context, or lived-experience narratives—leaving major dimensions of resilience unmeasured.

The GeoHolistic LCA™ platform is designed to help cities and communities strategize, plan and develop solutions to environmental stressors affecting vulnerable populations. comprehensive approach to environmental holism, assessing how environmental, social, cultural, racial and structural factors shape community health and adaptive capacity.

Proposed Scope

Prioritize Communities in Need

Prioritize frontline communities: Identify those affected by systemic disinvestment, climate risks, or public health disparities.

Engage community voices: Involve residents early and often in planning. Include lived-experience narratives in decision-making.

Address root causes:  Consider issues like housing insecurity, food deserts, intense heat, air and water policy.

Collect Lived Experience Stories

Stories are treated as data, not anecdotes.

Captures and visualizes:

  • Resident stories

  • Historical memory and neighborhood identity

  • Daily lived burdens and stressors

  • Local knowledge of environmental change

  • Community surveys, interviews, mobile narrative inputs

Holistic Life Cycle and Systems Analysis

Goes beyond carbon or materials to account for:

  • Socio-environmental burdens

  • Human exposure pathways

  • Health and wellbeing impacts

  • Community consequences

Integrates both quantitative and qualitative indicators including adaptive capacity, access to services, environmental comfort and safety, structural barriers.

Adapting LCA 

Core Features

Holistic Environmental Health Dashboard
A place-based environmental health score combining physical, social, and cultural metrics.

Narrative-Driven StoryMaps
GIS maps layered with resident videos, quotes, heat logs, photos, and testimonials.

Life Cycle & Systems Scenario Modeling
Allows users to assess how changes in housing, mobility, zoning, or policy affect long-term environmental and human outcomes.

Community Heat + Home Environment Index
Quantifies risks related to extreme heat, weatherization needs, indoor air quality, access to cooling, and household resilience.

Policy & Program Impact Explorer
Models how proposed interventions affect:

  • Environmental health disparities
  • Community stressors
  • Household resilience
  • Long-term wellbeing

Equity & Justice Indicators
Aligns with EJSCREEN, Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and local equity dashboards.

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Phoenix, AZ

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Weekends: Closed
Holidays: Closed

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