Working Together to Measure, Conserve and Sustain
Sustain One World is the initiative behind EH-IMACS, a proposed framework for measuring environmental and human-condition impacts and linking those measurements to conservation and restoration. The project is driven by the view that progress toward a sustainable world is urgent and that better, more specific, and more actionable sustainability information is needed.
In broad terms, EH-IMACS aims to support a more bottom-up path toward sustainability by linking everyday economic activity more directly to conservation and restoration. The framework is intended to complement existing top-down measures by making sustainability-relevant information and conservation support more visible in everyday economic choices.
EH-IMACS is still in a development, evaluation, and communication stage. To move it forward responsibly and fast enough, the project needs constructive scientific review, practical help, organizational support, and motivated volunteers who want to contribute to a long-term sustainability effort.
This website provides a high-level overview only. More technical EH-IMACS manuscripts are currently being revised for submission to peer-reviewed scientific journals. As publications appear, short summaries will be added to this website.
Our Story
The project began in 2013 as an independent effort to think through how sustainability could be addressed in a more integrated and quantitative way. Over time, that work developed into a broader framework described in a patent application and related technical manuscripts.
Founded by Drs. Ir. Vincent Dert, the project draws on a background in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. It is now being advanced step by step through publication, technical review, website communication, and organizational development.
Sustain One World welcomes constructive engagement from scientists, engineers, communicators, organizers, and other motivated supporters who want to help evaluate, refine, communicate, and build the EH-IMACS framework.