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• A program being developed at Washington State University to measure the sustainability of a company's production has just received a $240,000 grant from the Clif Bar Family Foundation.
• The program, called 'Measure to Manage: Food and Farm Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, is a series of online tools and protocols that companies can use to measure and then improve their sustainability rating.
• One of the major goals of this project is to form a national sustainability touchstone so that different ratings and measurements will mean more to the consumer. 

From the article:

The program, called "Measure to Manage: Food and Farm Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health," or M2M,  will use the three-year grant to develop a series of tools to develop new, and refine existing, science-based tools to quantify and compare the nutritional quality of food, agricultural and food production safety parameters, and agriculture's environmental impact."It will be a series of interconnected tools that will make it possible to do a series of calculations to apply a set of performance metrics to a different food production systems, and eventually even manufacturing processes,"...