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Activity Browser

An open source and free software for Life Cycle Assessment extending the brightway2 framework.
https://github.com/LCA-ActivityBrowser/activity-browser

Category: Industrial Ecology
Sub Category: Life Cycle Assessment

Keywords

brightway2 lca lifecycleassessment pyside2 pyside6 python

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life-cycle-assessment bw2 ecoinvent brightway matrix-calculations inventory lifecycle

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GUI for brightway2

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Activity Browser

[!TIP]
Activity Browser now has an open beta for Version 3🚀.

The beta supports many new features such as Multi-functionality and uses Brightway 2.5 under the hood.
Help us by making Activity Browser even better by using and providing feedback on Activity Browser.

Learn more about the beta
here.

The Activity Browser (AB) is an open source software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that builds on Brightway2.

Some highlights

  • Fast LCA calculations: for multiple reference flows, impact categories, and scenarios
  • A productivity tool for brightway: model in brightway (python) and see the results in the AB or vice-versa
  • Advanced modeling: Use parameters, scenarios (including prospective LCI databases from premise), uncertainties and our Graph Explorer
  • Advanced analyses: Contribution analyses, Sankey Diagrams, Monte Carlo, and Global Sensitivity Analysis
  • Plugins: Extend the functionality of Activity Browser with
    Plugins

Contents

Installation

Step-by-step guide

See our
Installation Guide
wiki page for a step-by-step guide to installing Activity Browser.

The quick way

Or you can install and start the activity-browser like this:

conda create -n ab -c conda-forge activity-browser
conda activate ab
activity-browser

First Steps

See our
Getting Started
wiki page to learn how to get started using Activity Browser.

Contributing

The Activity Browser is a community project. Your contribution counts!

If you have ideas for improvements to the code or documentation or want to propose new features, please take a look at our contributing guidelines and open issues and/or pull-requests.

If you experience problems or are suffering from a specific bug, please raise an issue here on github.

Developers

Current main developers

Important contributors

Copyright

  • 2016-2023: Bernhard Steubing (Leiden University)

License

You can find the license information for Activity Browser in the license file.

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Last synced: 3 days ago

Total issues: 498
Total pull requests: 372
Average time to close issues: about 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: 28 days
Total issue authors: 151
Total pull request authors: 24
Average comments per issue: 2.43
Average comments per pull request: 1.39
Merged pull request: 295
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 1

Past year issues: 86
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Past year average time to close issues: about 1 month
Past year average time to close pull requests: 5 days
Past year issue authors: 31
Past year pull request authors: 6
Past year average comments per issue: 1.34
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Past year merged pull request: 31
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pypi.org: activity-browser

A graphical user interface for brightway2

  • Homepage:
  • Documentation: https://activity-browser.readthedocs.io/
  • Licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
  • Latest release: 0.0.0 (published almost 2 years ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-06-26T07:01:48.752Z (3 days ago)
  • Versions: 71
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 2,171 Last month
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