of economic or quality-of-life impacts. As we will see later, technical tools are being developed that can quantify or at least account for many of these non-environmental impacts. There are also systems of indicators, like sustainable community indicators, which can combine the results of environmental life-cycle analysis with other indicators of health, quality of life, prosperity and social equality. The possibilities are endless, but underlying it all is a search for qualitative values that can help regenerate communities and ecosystems.