RESEARCH CATEGORY: TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

“I suppose I think that sustainability is not about the destination, it’s about the method of travel…it’s about doing the right thing while we are here.” Melissa Lamphron, Oct. 2005

Setting sustainability as an ultimate destination is an important mental adjustment to make, but developing strategies and tools to make that journey is what sustainability is really about. Some of those tools help us to better see what we’re doing; some help us control what we’re doing; and, some help us to make the right decisions. I the subtopics below, we will explore these tools and more.

The questions we want to ask and answer include:

What are the characteristics of measurement tools that will help us achieve sustainability?
What are the characteristics of assessment tools that will help us achieve sustainability?
What are the characteristics of decision-making tools that will help us achieve sustainability?
What is out there that works?
Who, what, and where are the resources we need to move toward sustainability?
What are the obstacles and what can we do about them?

Subcategories

• Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems [2,3]
• Environmental Valuation and Accounting [1]
• Evaluation of Natural Resources
• Impact of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard [1]
• Integrating EHS Management into Organizational Excellence [4]
• Life-Cycle-Analysis (LCA) [1], [4]
• Multiple-Bottom-Line Thinking [4]
• Paying for Sustainability [4]
• Sustainability Labeling and Consumer Education [1,2]
• Sustainability Reporting as a Lever for Action
• Sustainable Resource Use
• Using Strategic Business to Maximize the Benefits of ISO 14001 [4]
• Using Your EMS to Move Toward Sustainability [4]