Impact Measurement and Application of Conservation System (IMACS)

This article describes the first “first principals’ based” system of methods for the calculation of environmental (E) and human condition (H) impacts and sustainabilities for all products, services and individuals as a set of universally standardized methods, earlier published as a patent application (1). The overall system allows buyers to select more sustainable products and services, and allows end-user consumers to apply conservation rendering the product or service purchased free of damaging environ-human (EH) impacts. It includes EH impacts contributed by employees and other parts of the organization. The system carries EH impact variables through the supply chain as an extension of the price variables “currency” and “monetary amount”. Similar to the calculation and payment of prices and salaries, the system runs in real time and allows calculation of EH impacts at very low costs. The system has the potential to create very large amounts of funding for conservation, may prevent nature from being pushed past tipping points from which no return is possible (2) and potentially allows a relative fast return to pre-industrial environmental conditions, while improving human conditions and saving costs.