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The emphasis of Sustainable Measures and this web site is to provide information about community sustainability and sustainability indicator projects. However, there are some community indicator projects that, although not specifically about sustainability, are valuable resources for groups thinking about creating an indicator project. They are listed on this page. If you know of other community indicator projects that should be added, please let us know. |
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Boulder County Civic Forum
The Boulder County Civic Forum, a program of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, promotes healthy decision making that will sustain the environmental quality, livability, and economic vibrancy of the Boulder County region. The Forum has published a report Quality of Life in Boulder County every 2 years since 1998. The latest edition has 50 indicators in four areas: People, Environment, Economy,and Culture & Civil Society. The entire report is available on the web site.
Healthy Mountain Communities
An organization in the three county region of Colorado including Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield Counties, Healthy Mountain Communities fosters regional collaboration and innovation to improve people's quality of life. The region is defined by natural geographic boundaries and commuting patterns in the area. They published their first report, Healthy Community Indicators: A Tool for Sustainable Development in the Aspen to Parachute Region in 1996 with a follow up report in 2001. Since then they have published several smart growth report cards for the region.
Compass of Larimer County
Compass is a collaboration of the County Health Department and United Way. Report covers social, economic and environmental issues in Larimer County in nine categories: community development, community living, crime & safety, demographics, economy, education, enrichments, environment, and health.
Jacksonville Community Council Inc.
Since 1985, JCCI has tracked indicators of the quality of life in Jacksonville and surrounding communities. Tracking both positive and negative trends, this "community progress report" provides an ongoing analysis of the state of the region. The Quality of Life Progress Report includes 111 indicators that reflect trends in nine external environments: education; economy; environment; social wellbeing; arts, culture, and recreation; health; government; transportation; and safety.
Maine Development Foundation
Published annually since 1995, Measures of Growth reports on progress made for specific performance measures and includes benchmarks. All indicators are available on the web site with definitions, data sources, graphics and assessments. On line version is very extensive. Also available in hard copy format.
The Boston Indicators Project
The 2004-2006 is the fourth biennial indicator report to be released. The 10 issues areas covered are: Civic Vitality, Cultural Life & the Arts, Economy, Education, Environment & Energy, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Technology, and Transportation.
Minnesota Milestones
Minnesota Planning, a state agency, published the Minnesota Milestones from 1992 to 2002. The last report has data for 70 indicators to measure progress toward 19 goals. The goals are grouped in 4 broad areas: People, Community and Democracy, Economy, and Environment, and the report covers a wide variety of topics, including child poverty, housing, energy use, academic achievement, and health.
Missoula Measures
Missoula Measures contains data and links, organized into six areas: Health; Basic Needs; Children, Youth, Families; Active Missoula; Missoula Urban Environment; Wild Lands. Although not specifically called 'sustainability' indicators, the measures are intended to reflect a picture of the interconnections among these parts of the community.
see Vermont -- Vital Communities of the Upper Valley
State of the Region: Regional Performance in the Buffalo Niagara Region
Reports on performance measures for 11 categories not specifically related to sustainability in a 10 county area around Buffalo, NY, including part of Canada.
Oregon Progress Board
Created by the state's legislature in 1989, the Oregon Progress Board has been tracking and reporting the state's progress in three areas: people, quality of life, and economy. State agencies have performance measures tied to the state level goals.
Vital Communities of the Upper Valley
Vital Communities Of The Upper Valley (formerly Upper Valley 2001 & Beyond) is a collaborative project involving 69 towns in the Upper Connecticut Valley region in Vermont and New Hampshire. The Valley VitalSigns, is a regional indicator report involving multiple towns and stakeholders.
Milwaukee Neighborhood Indicators
Primarily economic-social indicators maintained by Uwisc-Milwaukee but has useful toolkit for getting local census data for any neighborhood in the US.
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Although not specifically a sustainability project, the Edmonton LIFE (Local Indicators For Excellence) is a thoughtfully written report that includes a number of indicators related to sustainability.
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