Tools & Metrics

Track Coordinators:
Joseph Fiksel, Battelle
Bruce Paton, University of California-Santa Cruz

Track Kick-Off Session (Monday 1:15-2:30pm)

Moderator: Joseph Fiksel, Battelle
Discussion Panel: Joseph Fiksel, Dan Fiorino, Daniel Rubinstein, Mark Milstein
Speaker: Marc Epstein, Rice University Jones Graduate School of Management
Title: Creating Accountability of Sustainability

  Benchmarks for Sustainability: The State of the Art in Sustainability Metrics (Monday, 3:00-4:15pm)

Moderator: Daniel Fiorino, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Riva	Krut	Sustainable Industrial Development: Benchmarking Environmental Policies and Reports
Ryan	Delcambre	Aligning Business and EHS Performance Through Dow Chemical's 2005 Goals
Deborah	Savage	Industrial Environmental Performance Measurement in Southeast Asia

Measuring Sustainability (Tuesday, 9:45-11:00am)

Moderator: Joseph Fiksel, Battelle

Joseph Jeff Catherine	Fiksel McDaniel Mendenhall	Measuring Progress Towards Sustainability:  Principles, Process, and Best Practices    Download .pdf
Jacob	Park	Benchmarking the Environmental Performance of Japanese Corporations

  Defining Sustainable Production (Tuesday, 11:15am-12:30om)

Moderator: Mark Rossi, MIT & Ken Geiser, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Mark Ken Vesela	Rossi Geiser Veleva	Defining Sustainable Production
Timothy	Greiner	Indicators for Sustainable Production

  How Do We Measure Progress Towards Sustainability? (Tuesday, 2:00-3:15pm)

Moderator: Daniel Rubenstein, Canada Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development

Panelists: Jan Jaap Bouma and Tuen Wolters

Envisioning the Future (Wednesday, 11:15am+02:30pm)

Moderator: Bruce Paton, University of California-Santa Cruz

A.F.L. E.W.J.T.	Slob Nijhuis	Scenarios and Environmental Strategies
T.J.J. Philip S.	van der Horst Vergragt Silvester	Sustainable Roadmapping: New Approaches for Identifying Radical Product System Innovations    Download .pdf
Michael	Radcliffe	Using the Balanced Scorecard Methodology to Develop Metrics for Sustainable Development