What is environmental sustainability if we don’t measure environmental outcomes?

It's fantastic that industrial-organizational psychologists (I-Os) are increasingly acknowledging the importance of contributing to environmental sustainability efforts.Just as I-Os have helped organizations understand the value of employee well-being, so too are I-Os equipped to help organizations understand the value of environmental well-being.The focal article gives us several ways of operationalizing this impact across levels of analysis.However, one key criterion seems to be missing: the environment itself.It's not entirely surprising that the environment is underrepresented in the focal article's list of variables and methodological approaches; I-Os are not trained to measure environmental outcomes.However, this omission represents a fundamental criterion problem in I-O sustainability work.How will we know whether our efforts are indeed impactful without measuring environmental outcomes?In this commentary, I describe the importance of including environmental outcomes in the conversation about I-Os' impact on sustainability.I then discuss the need for I-Os to partner with environmental experts capable of helping us measure environmental outcomes and offer suggestions for where we might start, drawing from my experiences with environmental experts in local agencies and nonprofit organizations.My hope is that I-Os working in the sustainability space will put the environment itself back into environmental sustainability at work.