Crossroads
Resource Center
The Resource Center’s Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators
Project assists neighborhoods and communities seeking to become more
sustainable to develop indicators to assess progress toward their
own sustainability goals. It also encourages neighborhoods and communities
to adopt resident-defined indicators of neighborhood sustainability.
Offers free copy of Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Guidebook.
(Information taken from http://www.crcworks.org/nsip.html.)
Interface Corporation
Here is one example of a company that has developed a way of measuring
its impact on the social sustainability of its company. The percentage
of women in managerial positions, the number of hours volunteering
with community organizations, the amount of charitable donations
given by the company, the average number of hours employees trained
and the number of social events for employees and their families
were all used to measure the social sustainability of the company.
(Information taken from http://www.interfacesustainability.com/metrics.htm.)
International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD has been working on measurements and indicators since 1995,
with the aim of making significant local, national and international
contributions, and of building the institute into a world center
of expertise in this field. While continuing with projects focused
on sustainability indicators, we are broadening this work to
better understand what makes indicators work, and to innovation
in integrated assessment, reporting and adaptive planning. Our
research emphasizes the importance of linking assessment and
measurement work to decision-making and policy-making.
(Description taken from http://www.iisd.org/measure/.)
International Sustainability Indicators Network
The International Sustainability Indicators Network is a member-driven
organization that provides people working on sustainability indicators
with a method of communicating with and learning from each other.
Through listserv discussions, virtual and in-person meetings,
and special programs and trainings, the Network facilitates shared
learning and development among sustainability indicators practitioners
and others. The Network also seeks to increase the use of sustainability
indicators as a means of promoting movement toward sustainability
at all scales, from local neighborhoods to the global economy.
(Description taken from http://www.sustainabilityindicators.org/.)
Sustainable Measures
Provides information on what an indicator is, how it applies to
sustainability, how to develop appropriate indicators to measure
your community and examples of completed community indicators.
It also provides a contact list of other communities currently
working on sustainable indicators and using them to develop a
sustainable community.
(Information taken from http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Indicators/Examples.html.)
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