Developing a practical approach to measuring sustainability for the proceedings of the 2010 IEEE society spring conference

Companies are seeking ways to track, measure, and compare the sustainability of their manufactured products and operations. Regulations already require companies to track GHG emissions. Some are embracing the challenge by trying to establish verifiably sustainable business models. For them it will become important to adopt recognized best practices. This paper explores the development of a sustainability evaluation methodology that unifies three separate sustainability trajectories: financial, environmental, and human sustainability into a single monetized scale.