Maureen Hart (1992)
Fellowship Year: 1992
Academic Background: Tufts University - MS 1993
Current Position: President , Sustainable Measures
Maureen Hart, the President and founder of Sustainable Measures, is an internationally known expert on sustainability indicators and the author of the Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators on measuring sustainability. Both the guide and the related web site (www.sustainablemeasures.com) are being used world-wide by organizations and communities working on understanding and measuring progress toward sustainability. Since 1993, both as a sole practitioner and as a business owner with a staff of six, Ms. Hart has provided technical assistance to community indicator projects, evaluated indicators and indicator sets, and researched, published and presented on various aspects of measuring sustainability. She consults on sustainability and measurement issues with communities, non-profit organizations, federal, state, regional, and local governments, foundations and the private sector including the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Forest Service, the US Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators, and numerous state and local environmental agencies. Recent projects include: researching and developing training on indicators of green infrastructure for the US Forest Service and The Conservation Fund; participating on the National Roundtable on Sustainable Forests’ working group on Montreal Process Indicator 38, Community Resilience; collaborating on the National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America, (www.summits.ncat.org) including taking a lead role organizing the June 2007 meeting on Sustainable Communities and the indicators work group for the final meeting to be held in October 2007; and managing the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators website (www.calvert-henderson.com). Past projects have included consulting on indicators of minimum impact development, coastal resources, sustainable production, and defining strategies for and evaluating decisions relating to funding sustainable development related projects. She developed a course on business sustainability indicators as an affiliate of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Maureen received a bachelors of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and a masters of science from Tufts University in 1993.
Expertise: Energy & Climate Change, Land / Open Space / Smart Growth, Water Resources