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Future workplaces to support environmental sustainability

In many work contexts, we lack social and technical paradigms that support deep engagement with environmental sustainability. We need new ways of working and new workplace tools that enable sustainable concerns to affect the spectrum of work activities. While a full treatment of this issue would take more than a few pages, this article seeks to touch upon a few transformations that are likely to occur as workplaces seek to support sustainability, and as sustainability in turn impacts work. Briefly, we need to work more broadly, work elsewhere, and work toward different goals. Work More Broadly While environmental issues are often quite broad in scope, many work activities tend to be myopic, constrained by division of labor, layers of management, financial factors, limits of worker expertise , and many other factors. For example, workers designing a new product may take into account the purpose of the product and the materials from which it is to be made, but they may not consider all the potential effects that the creation of that product may generate up or down a supply chain, ecological food chain, or macroeconomic chain of causality. To enable sustainable efforts, people need to work more broadly, that is, broaden their views and allow long-term and large-scale issues to influence their daily workplace decisions. Because broad perspective-taking isn't always intuitive, many work contexts would benefit from IT that supports workers in this effort. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) serves this purpose to a certain extent; it enables specific industries to assess the environmental impacts of their products and services. Various LCA tools have been in use for decades in manufacturing and similar domains. As sustainability becomes more central to other industries and professions, new forms of LCA tools are likely to emerge to support these efforts. For example, Earthster is a new open-source LCA system that focuses on transparency in the LCA process and the sharing of environmental and social impacts across corporations; major corporate backers (e.g., Walmart) have already signed on as partners [1]. However, despite this project and other advances in LCA (e.g., the incorporation of ecosystem services), there is a need for more vigorous prediction of real and potential impacts across time, space, and traditional intellectual boundaries, including information on the likelihood of each potential outcome and the interdependencies among them. Access to dynamic and timely information about a broad range of real and potential impacts (environmental, …