This is a unit of measure which most accurately measures item value. It is dynamic and constantly evolving. Its purpose is to take into account that which is the state of the art awareness of all costs and impacts involved in a given item’s creation along with all benefits derived from said item.
The Live Earth Metric will be a dynamic system of measurement utilized to gauge impact and benefit on the biosphere and the life forms which depend upon it. The LEM will be composed of many existing metrices along with those new and evolving. The LEM will be catalogued, indexed and formulated through analog means. Algorithms will be used to compute real time values though they must be daily reconfigured via analog means. In other words, people need to be involved.