Hanprint Tool

The handprint tool, being developed by CEE, is an action and solution oriented tool designed for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders of sustainability. The application will help to evaluate one’s handprint including actions from daily behaviour to global influence towards a sustainable future. The tool will also help improve one’s handprint by suggesting further actions and linking one to organisations offering additional advice and cooperation options. Compared to similar calculators, the handprint tool focuses on one’s positive impacts and options to improve the conditions for today’s and future life on our planet rather than on the damage done by human activity. Thus, the tool aims at seeding optimism and motivation.

The handprint tool, at its preliminary stage, analyses individual’s positive impact on the three aspects of sustainability: environment, society and economy. Seven questions cover each aspect, investigating amongst others use of resources, social engagement and awareness of sustainable investments. In addition, the questions concern different levels of action, like personal, family/households, institution, community, city, state, nation and world. Persons calculating their handprints collect more points (maximum 3) for sustainable actions on the personal level than actions on city, community, nation or state level (maximum 2). The quantitative results will be interpreted to evaluate individual’s action towards sustainability.

A more comprehensive evaluation technique will be developed for handprint tool, which will include evaluation of handprint for individual, organization or community and nation at large.