Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool to quantify the impacts of a product or a service. It is a holistic approach towards understanding implication of product over its entire value chain. The method is standardized using ISO 14040:2008 and ISO 14044:2008 standards.
The three pillars of sustainability are social, economical and environmental.
Sustainability is an ability to maintain an operation for longer durations of time with out affecting the demands of future generations. Around the academic and business world it carries various forms and definitions.
The description according to the Wikipedia is "Sustainability is a societal goal with three dimensions: the environmental, economic and social dimension."
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