COMMENTARY
There is an organization called 'GAIA Metrics ... Valuing Sustainability' that has developed several modules of a software application to make reporting of sustainability more efficient. I did not know why they had chosen the name GAIA Metrics ... and now I do.

It is interesting, however, that the ideas that drive the Gaia science also serve to explaing where economic and financial wealth originates. This is not important for the use of TrueValueMetrics, it does help in the formulation of the basic design of the TVM framework.
Peter Burgess

Gaia hypothesis

The study of planetary habitability is partly based upon extrapolation from knowledge of the Earth's conditions, as the Earth is the only planet currently known to harbour life

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. Topics of interest include how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms affect (and in some cases contribute to) the stability of global temperature, ocean salinity, oxygen in the atmosphere and other factors of habitability.

The hypothesis was formulated by the chemist James Lovelock and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. While early versions of the hypothesis were criticized as teleological and contradicted principles of natural selection, later versions focused on the large-scale effects of life on the planet and are studied in the disciplines of geophysiology and Earth system science. Some of its principles have been adopted in fields like biogeochemistry and systems ecology.

The Gaia hypothesis has also inspired analogies and various interpretations in social sciences, politics, and religion under a vague philosophy and movement.