DETERMINING AND/OR EVALUATING A SUSTAINABILITY OF A PRODUCT, A SERVICE, AN ORGANIZATION AND/OR A PERSON
Creators: name: Dert, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Carbon capture engineering
subject: Sustainability sciences
subject: Biodiversity conservation
subject: International protection of human rights
subject: Sustainable economy
subject: sustainability, biodiversity, protection, restoration, carbon neutrality, carbon negativity, circular economy

description: This is the patent application for the system described in later preprints as "The Impact Measurement and Conservation System" (IMACS). As with any well drafted patent application, the scope is made "as wide as imaginable". In the prosecution phase, the scope needs to be reduced to make the application approvable. This system of methods represents the first "first principals" based determination of impacts and sustainability.

IMACS aims to provide a set of globally uniform methods allowing the determination of both damaging and conserving environmental and human condition impacts and the calculation of sustainability of products, services, individuals and organizations in highly automated fashion and at low costs. In contrast to life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods, impacts originating from labor are included. Rather than calculating a single set of impacts for a series of products made along the supply chain, for which the impacts values remain the same, items of the same series add (per item different) damaging impacts with shipping, storage, intermediate ownership and delivery. Impact values and corresponding sustainabilities are automatically updated daily. For participating end-user consumers, buying participating products from participating retailers, all damaging impacts are automatically neutralized by the purchase of conservation matching in type and amount, as long as such conservation is available. This conservation is ordered by the end-user consumer, but paid for by the retailer using product specific electronic vouchers. While the "front end" (the end-user visible end) of the IMACS system is very simple, the "back-end" (visible to scientists and programmers) is more complex. While partly explained in the patent, the overall system of methods is simplified and the methods are in more detail explained in eleven preprints. The 9th preprint (PDF) is the global warming application of IMACS.     

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Related documents available thus far: 

PDF (text) files:



Dert, V. (2024). Impact Measurement and Application of Conservation (IMACS). Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11206388.

Dert, V. (2024). Calculation of Individual Sustainable Absorption under IMACS. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11211510. 

Dert, V. (2024). Calculation Of Excess Impact Deduction for Products and Services under IMACS. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11212346. 

Dert, V. (2024). Providing Conservation as "Title-To-Conservation" under IMACS. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11212462

Dert, V. (2024). Calculation of Individual and Product Sustainability under IMACS. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11214090. 

Dert, V. (2024). Remote Sensing of Environmental Impacts for IMACS. Zenodo. 110.5281/zenodo.11218121. 

Dert, V. (2024). Impact Estimation and Product Classification under IMACS. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11225057.

Dert, V. (2024). Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11284389

Dert, V. (2024). Can We Reverse Global Warming? Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11289414

Dert, V. (2024). Marketing Aspects for IMACS. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11521962

Dert, V. (2024). The Impact Measurement and Application of Conservation System (IMACS): A Review of IMACS and a Return to Sustainable Conditions. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11663825.

Dert, V. (2024). Immediate Action for IMACS: A Design-Build Approach to Sustainability. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11702929

Dert, V. (2024, August 1). Reverse Climate Change in 40 Years!. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13152375


Excel files:



Dert, V. (2024). Excel Model for DACCS Capacity and Cost for "Can We Reverse Global Warming?". Zenodo. h10.5281/zenodo.11114143. 

Dert, V. (2024). Supporting Excel file for paper "Remote Sensing of Environmental Impacts for IMACS". Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11217693. 

Dert, V. (2024). Supporting Excel file for "Impact Estimation and Product Classification under IMACS. Zenodo" [Data set]. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11223929.

Dert, V. (2024). LCEO for "Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative". [Data set]. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.11238658. 

Dert, V. (2024). Supporting Excel models for carbon neural buildings for use with "Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative.". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11244860

Dert, V. (2024). Table 2.1a Energy Consumption Residential, Commercial and Industrial Sectors for use with "Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative." [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11266472

Dert, V. (2024). Primary Fossil Energy Use and Costs as used for "Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative." [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11267382